{"id":780166,"date":"2026-09-23T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780166\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:10:21","slug":"krystian-bielik-cardiff-city-defender-charged-by-fa-over-portsmouth-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780166\/","title":{"rendered":"Krystian Bielik: Cardiff City defender charged by FA over Portsmouth incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Football Association has charged Cardiff City defender Krystian Bielik with misconduct over an altercation involving Portsmouth fans, but a police investigation has been concluded and they will take no further action over the incident.<\/p>\n

The flashpoint came during Cardiff’s 2-0 Championship defeat at Portsmouth on Saturday, 5 September.<\/p>\n

The FA stated: “It’s alleged that the player [Bielik] acted in an improper manner around the 71st minute of the match.”<\/p>\n

The Poland international has been given until Friday, 25 September to respond to the FA charge.<\/p>\n

Hampshire Police were notified of the incident during the match and launched an investigation<\/a> immediately afterwards, but this has been concluded.<\/p>\n

A police statement read: “Following an incident involving a Portsmouth FC supporter and a Cardiff player at Fratton Park on 5 September 2026, we have now concluded our investigation.<\/p>\n

“After speaking with the complainant and reviewing all available evidence, the matter has been resolved by way of an out-of-court disposal, agreed by all parties involved. As part of this resolution, an apology has been provided by the player.<\/p>\n

“The matter is now considered closed, and no further action will be taken in relation to this incident.”<\/p>\n

Cardiff City have been asked to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Football Association has charged Cardiff City defender Krystian Bielik with misconduct over an altercation involving Portsmouth fans,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780166","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\/780166","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=780166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}