{"id":817579,"date":"2026-10-29T12:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817579\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:54:12","slug":"man-city-ffp-likely-number-of-points-deducted-revealed-as-part-of-three-pronged-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817579\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City FFP: ‘Likely’ number of points deducted revealed as part of three-pronged punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> are \u2018increasingly likely\u2019 to receive a \u2018single-season\u2019 points deduction of around 50 points as part of a three-pronged punishment following their guilty verdict.<\/p>\n

City were found guilty of breaching 114 Premier League rules by an independent commission last month, as the panel found them to have used \u2018sham\u2019 sponsorship deals<\/a> to boost they earnings by around \u00a3900m between 2009 and 2018.<\/p>\n

The club have now appealed that verdict as they insist upon their innocence and claim they have \u2018irrefutable evidence\u2019 to prove it, in the form of documents showing that the sponsorship funds came from the Abu Dhabi government rather from their owners.<\/p>\n

READ: Man City FFP: PL clubs could go rogue and impose eight unsanctioned punishments<\/a><\/p>\n

The initial three-man commission has already seen this evidence and \u2018concluded it was an explanation that the club had concocted well after the event in an attempt to conceal the realities of the Disguised Funding Scheme\u2019, but City hope an all-new panel will rule in their favour.<\/p>\n

Possible punishments include fines, transfer bans, points deductions, Premier League expulsion and titles being stripped, while the owners could also be removed by the Independent Football Regulator.<\/p>\n

A report last week stating that City are prepared to \u2018exhaust every legal avenue\u2019 claimed that while the Premier League wants a punishment to be applied before the end of the 2026\/27 season, a \u201cworst case scenario\u201d of City lifting the Premier League trophy while the case rumbles on \u201ccannot be ruled out\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Premier League rulebook says the appeal should take 12 weeks, with 30 days set aside for the judgement, meaning a verdict by the end of January, but football finance expert Kieran Maguire doesn\u2019t see that as realistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the uncertainty will go on for a very long time. Not just months but years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A source has told Football Insider<\/a> that the Premier League are \u201cvery keen\u201d to get the appeal wrapped up months before the 2026-27 campaign ends, with the report adding that \u2018lawyer availability could be the biggest hurdle that prevents it from happening\u2019.<\/p>\n

Those of us hoping for a string of points deductions across multiple seasons are set for disappointment as sources from both the FA and the Premier League suggest the greater likelihood is a points deduction that would give City a chance of staying up this season.<\/p>\n

\u2018A single-season points deduction of around 40 to 50 points is increasingly likely\u2019, the report states, before adding that \u2018City are also likely to be hit with an extended transfer ban and an astronomical fine\u2019.<\/p>\n

City can appeal the sanctions after appealing the verdict and can then request arbitration if they feel the process is flawed, before taking the case to the High Court.<\/p>\n

Maguire believes City are ready or a \u201clong and expensive fight\u201d which could create a rift between the other Premier League clubs and force some sort of settlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lawyer friend told me that City have already started the process of creating noise and mess around the process,\u201d Maguire says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at what\u2019s happened already it appears they are gearing up for a very long and expensive fight over this.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the aim to persuade the Premier League to go to its members and say \u2018This could cost us as an organisation \u00a325m-a-year to fight it, do you want us to negotiate a settlement?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the clubs like Ipswich, Sunderland, Brentford, they might see that money as coming out of their bottom line and \u2013 potentially \u2013 this isn\u2019t really their fight because they were never trying to be competitive with Manchester City.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pressure has really been applied by two or three clubs who lost out on trophies or Champions League places. If this approach splits the Premier League then things get complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City are \u2018increasingly likely\u2019 to receive a \u2018single-season\u2019 points deduction of around 50 points as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,448,399,50,101,56,1955,54,55],"class_list":["post-817579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-front-page","tag-manchester-city","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-uncategorized","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817579","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=817579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}