{"id":721062,"date":"2026-07-31T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721062\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:36:09","slug":"chelsea-fined-10m-for-breaching-agent-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721062\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea fined \u00a310m for breaching agent rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> have been fined \u00a310m and given a suspended ban from registering new players for two transfer windows for breaching rules relating to payments to agents between 2009 and 2022.<\/p>\n

But the club have had a six-point deduction, which was suspended until 30 June 2027, “set aside” on appeal.<\/p>\n

Owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital self-reported 74 breaches of Football Association rules when they purchased the club in 2022.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> admitted making \u00a347m in secret payments to unregistered agents and third-parties over transfers between 2011 and 2018.<\/p>\n

The FA said it was “continuing to investigate individual misconduct arising out of this case”.<\/p>\n

The fine was set to be \u00a326m, but was reduced by a third to \u00a317.25m for self-reporting and what the regulatory commission’s written reasons described as the “exceptional and unprecedented nature” of co-operation, which “amounts to mitigation”.<\/p>\n

It was then cut by another third to \u00a311.4m for an early guilty plea, then to \u00a310m because of fines already given to the club by Uefa<\/a> and the Premier League.<\/a><\/p>\n

The FA said it was “an appropriate penalty” that would punish the club and also “deter similar misconduct and maintain the integrity of the game”.<\/p>\n

The \u00a310m Chelsea<\/a> have been fined will be invested into grassroots football.<\/p>\n

The regulatory commission said: “Had the club not brought these matters to the attention of the FA, it is unlikely that they would have been discovered.”<\/p>\n

It added the initial points deduction had been suspended because the FA did not ask for one and the Premier League did not impose one.<\/p>\n

“Now the FA process has concluded, this brings all regulatory proceedings against the club to a close,” a Chelsea<\/a> statement read.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful to Uefa, the Premier League and the FA for their engagement with the club throughout these processes.”<\/p>\n

In March, Chelsea<\/a> were given an immediate nine-month academy transfer ban and a \u00a3750,000 fine over the registration of academy players between 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n

All of the breaches relate to the period when Roman Abramovich was owner of Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have been fined \u00a310m and given a suspended ban from registering new players for two transfer windows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}