This Congress Presentation by Marios Papaloukas supports the view that as a result of the commercialisation of sports, the number of sports cases that were brought before the courts for a ruling, increased. At first it appeared that commercialisation was the only reason that the European Court of Justice (henceforth ECJ) issued a number of decisions that treated sports as an economic activity, the truth however is that inside the European Union (henceforth EU) there are different coalitions that support different policies. The ECJ's decisions and the legally binding documents issued by the EUs' institutions concerning sports, which can be called European Sports Law, represent merely the outcome of the debate between these different policy coalitions inside the EU. However, even if according to the Lisbon Treaty, the european institutions will have to recognize the 'specificity of sport', this does not mean that European Sports Law can be included in the autonomous, independent, supranational legal order that is called Lex Sportiva.