{"id":561980,"date":"2026-07-22T05:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:35:47","slug":"derry-and-cska-sofia-fined-for-brandywell-crowd-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561980\/","title":{"rendered":"Derry and CSKA Sofia fined for Brandywell crowd trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derry City have been fined \u20ac20,000 and handed a suspended partial stadium closure following the trouble which flared during their tie Europa League qualifier against CSKA Sofia last week.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Jasmin Sabotic was forced to take Derry and CSKA players off the pitch during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0716\/1583584-derry-and-cska-sofia-match-interrupted-by-crowd-trouble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Candystripes&#8217; 2-1 second leg defeat at the Brandywell Stadium<\/a> before the hour mark after travelling supporters tried to get into a home section of the ground. Some Derry fans made it on to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts had levelled the tie at 3-3 on aggregate before the enforced break, but went on to lose it 5-3 after the restart and will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka next week in the Europa Conference League.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the crowd trouble CSKA Sofia have been banned from selling tickets for their Europa League trip to Qarabag this week and handed a \u20ac30,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Bulgarian club have been ordered to pay for damaged seats, been fined \u20ac5,000 for one of their staff members &#8220;having violated the basic rules of decent conduct&#8221;, and been given a separate one-match spectator ban, suspended for two years, and a \u20ac20,000 fine for &#8220;the racist and\/or discriminatory behaviour of its supporters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Derry were hit with their fine and suspended partial stadium closure for &#8220;the effective invasion of the field of play by its supporters, crowd disturbances and throwing of objects&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derry City have been fined \u20ac20,000 and handed a suspended partial stadium closure following the trouble which flared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-561980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}