According to Britain’s “The Sun” newspaper<\/a>, Chelsea escaped a suspended six-point deduction after a secret appeal. They will still have to pay a fine running into several millions.<\/p>\nThe club had faced 74 charges of breaching FA rules in September 2025, and duly lodged an appeal.<\/p>\n
Those 74 charges related to conduct that “spanned from 2009 to 2022”, covering the deals for Willian, Eden Hazard and Samuel Eto’o.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s current management chose to self-report the club to the FA.<\/p>\n
A statement issued by the FA on Friday read: “A financial penalty of 10 million pounds sterling and a suspended registration ban for two transfer windows have been imposed on Chelsea for breaching The Football Association’s football agents regulations, working with intermediaries regulations, and third-party investment in players regulations.”<\/p>\n
It added: “The FA charged Chelsea with committing 74 breaches of FA Rule E1.2 after the current owners self-reported the misconduct immediately upon purchasing the club. The FA continues to investigate the individual misconduct arising from this case.”<\/p>\n
The statement went on: “Chelsea admitted 74 breaches of FA Rule E1.2 before the hearing convened, and an independent regulatory commission imposed a six-point deduction, which would have been suspended until 30 June 2027, and a fine of 10 million pounds sterling.”<\/p>\n
The FA explained: “The club appealed against the suspended points deduction, and an independent appeal board upheld the appeal and overturned this penalty after a further hearing. Instead, the appeal board imposed a registration ban for two full and consecutive transfer windows, suspended until 30 June 2027.”<\/p>\n
Rounding off the statement: “The 10 million pounds sterling fine imposed by the regulatory commission was not subject to appeal, and the full amount will be invested in youth football.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have been hit with a suspended two-window transfer ban and a 10 million pounds sterling fine after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4027,85,46,2619,105],"class_list":["post-569161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}