fair fight
All professional boxers have the right to a fair, honest and clean sport and fight.
Suomen Ammattinyrkkeilyliitto (SAN) strives to guarantee this for all professional boxers in Finland.
This page is made for all foreign boxers boxing in Finland and contains links, downloads or readings:
Principles of equal treatment and impartiality of the SAN ring officials.
Application forms for SAN Foreign Boxer License required for all foreign boxers in Finland from 1.1.2025.
SAN Rules and Regulations in Finnish language, to be translated by own means.
Activities aimed at anti-doping, combating competition manipulation, spectator safety and sports ethics.
Online training tools for information on anti-doping and the prevention of manipulation of sports competitions.
equal and fair officiating
All professional boxers put put very much on the line.
– blood, sweat and tears, and often a huge amount of preparation and sacrifice, their dreams, aspirations and livelihoods,
and analyzed all the way to the very bottom of it, their health and even their lives are at stake – every time.
These warriors deserve all the respect, including in the form of honest and successful ring officiating.
All judges and referees of SAN have complete impartiality as an unconditional requirement and guideline.
In every professional boxing contest in Finland, every boxer receives full respect and has a level playing field,
regardless of what country or town they are from or who organizes the fight or where it’s held.
san visiting boxer license
From 1.1.2025 a foreign professional boxer, boxing in Finland must be licensed for that specific purpose by SAN.
Here below are links to the required Application for Visiting Boxer License and Anti-Doping Agreement.
It is broken into three separate files, Page 1, 2 and 3, to be filled and submitted indepndently.
PAGE – 1 – Must be filled and submitted to SAN by email no later than seven days prior to the contest.
PAGE 2 – If not submitted online beforehand, must be submitted in Finland at least one day prior to the fight.
PAGE 3 – Must be signed by the Boxer and Chief Second in Finland no later than one day before the fight.
From the links blow you can download them or fill and submit them online.
rules and regulations of san
Below you can find links to all Rules and Regulations and to Fair Competition Programs you are subject to.
They are all published in Finnish language only – you may use translation methods of your choise.
If scheduled to box in Finland, you are welcome to ask any question regarding them from SAN by email.
The Boxer or the Boxer’s representative can write to this address: office@san-proboxing.fi.
san medical requirements
for boxers from outside europe
Boxers licensed by an EBU Affiliated National Federation are only required to provide SAN:
Authorisation to Box Abroad from the Boxer’s home commission, specified to the contest in Finland,
declaring that Boxer has fulfilled all medical requirements of that federation and of the EBU Agreement.
Boxers licensed by any other federation in the World are required to provide SAN:
Authorisation to Box Abroad from the Boxer’s home commission, specified to the contest in Finland, and
medical documentation of fulfilling all requirements specified in the document SAN Medical Requirements.
anti-doping regulation
The World Anti-Doping Code
in five major languages
When boxing in Finland you are boud to adhere to this internation Anti-Doping Regulation.
Below, there are links to the World Anti-Doping Assosiation WADA published regulation
World Anti-Doping Code in five major languages, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.
the anti-doping authority in finland
online training tools for visiting boxers
Below, there are links to the home page of The Finnish Center for Integrity in Sports FINCIS,
the national anti-doping authority in Finland, and to these two online educations published by them:
Puhtaasti paras -”Clean Win” online training tool for latest information on matters concerning anti-doping.
Reilusti paras -”Fair Win” online training tool for latest information on prevention of manipulation of competitions.
These are offered in English language and available for all Visiting Boxer Lisence holders and applicants.
