June 30 (Reuters) – UEFA has imposed sanctions on 14 \u2060clubs, including Juventus, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Chelsea, for breaching its financial sustainability rules for the 2025-26 season, European soccer’s \u2060governing body announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
UEFA said the First Chamber of its Club Financial Control Body had completed its assessment \u200cof clubs in 2025-26 European competitions and handed out sanctions covering breaches of its football earnings rule, squad cost rule and financial reporting requirements.<\/p>\n
The football earnings rule, an evolution of UEFA’s former break-even test, requires clubs to keep aggregate football-related losses within a permitted threshold over a monitoring period, with excess deficits needing to be covered by \u200bequity or owner contributions.<\/p>\n
Juve, Newcastle, OGC Nice, Santa Clara, FC Astana and FK Partizan \u2060failed to comply with the rule, which was assessed \u2060for the first time on a three-year aggregate basis, covering the financial years ending in 2023, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Juventus and Newcastle agreed three-year \u2060settlements \u200crequiring them to meet annual targets and achieve full compliance by the end of the 2028-29 season.<\/p>\n
Juve were fined 20 million euros ($22.84 million), of which 14 million euros is conditional, while Newcastle were fined 10 million euros ($11.42 million), with 7 million suspended pending \u2060future compliance.<\/p>\n
Both clubs will also face restrictions on registering new players on their List \u200bA for UEFA competitions. On List A, \u200cclubs can submit a maximum of 25 players, with eight places reserved exclusively for homegrown players.<\/p>\n
Further sanctions are possible if \u2060they fail to meet \u200btargets, ranging from stricter registration limits to exclusion from the next UEFA competition for which they qualify.<\/p>\n
Nice and Santa Clara also breached the football earnings rule but had shown the breaches were temporary.<\/p>\n
Nice were fined 2 million euros ($2.28 million), with 1.7 million conditional, while Santa Clara were fined 1 million euros ($1.14 million), including \u2060850,000 suspended.<\/p>\n
Astana and Partizan were fined 100,000 euros and 200,000 euros respectively for \u200bminor breaches.<\/p>\n
SQUAD COST RULE<\/p>\n
UEFA also sanctioned nine clubs for breaching its squad cost rule, which limits spending on player and coach wages, transfers and agent fees to 70% of club revenue and profit on player sales.<\/p>\n
Villa, Chelsea, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Nice, RC Strasbourg, AEK Athens, Fiorentina and Fenerbahce \u2060all reported squad cost ratios above the 70% limit for the 2025 calendar year.<\/p>\n
Strasbourg received the largest squad cost fine at 25 million euros ($28.55 million), of which 12 million is conditional. Aston Villa were fined 22.5 million euros, including 15 million suspended.<\/p>\n
UEFA said both clubs had committed significant breaches and would face restrictions on registering new players for the 2026-27 UEFA club competition season.<\/p>\n
Fenerbahce were fined 7 million euros, Fiorentina 6 \u200bmillion, Chelsea and Newcastle 3 million each, Nottingham Forest 2.5 million, AEK Athens 500,000 and Nice \u2060450,000.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s fine includes 2 million euros suspended.<\/p>\n
UEFA said Chelsea and Villa had already been sanctioned in the previous season but had shown an improving trend \u200bin their squad cost ratios.<\/p>\n
Bologna and Napoli also reported squad cost ratios above 70% \u200cbut were not fined because their deviations were offset by football earnings \u200bsurpluses.<\/p>\n
UEFA also fined FK Vardar Skopje 250,000 euros for submitting incomplete financial information. The club faces possible exclusion from future UEFA competition if it repeats the offence within three seasons.<\/p>\n
($1 = 0.8756 euros)<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Angelica Medina in Guadalajara; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 30 (Reuters) – UEFA has imposed sanctions on 14 \u2060clubs, including Juventus, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,6675,85],"class_list":["post-770734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}