Chelsea, Aston Villa and Barcelona are amongst a number of golf equipment to have been fined by UEFA for breaching monetary laws over time ending 2023 and 2024.
UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) has dominated Chelsea should pay virtually £27m, Barca £13m and Villa £9.5m with all three agreeing settlement agreements over completely different durations.
If these agreements usually are not complied with in full, additional monetary sanctions can be imposed.
All of Barca’s sanction, and the majority of these handed out to Chelsea and Villa, are as a result of CFCB ruling they did not adjust to the soccer earnings rule with explicit consideration paid to the transactions involving the sale of tangible or intangible property, the alternate of gamers (so known as “swaps”) and the transfers of gamers between associated events.
The particulars are summarised beneath:
Clubs |
Duration |
Total high quality |
Out of which unconditional |
Chelsea FC (ENG) |
4 years |
€80m |
€20m |
FC Barcelona (ESP) |
2 years |
€60m |
€15m |
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) |
4 years |
€50m |
€12.5m |
Aston Villa FC (ENG) |
3 years |
€20m |
€5m |
HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) |
3 years |
€1.2m |
€0.3m |
CFCB additionally rule on squad price rule
Chelsea and Villa have been additionally discovered to have breached the squad price rule, having reported a squad price ratio above 80% for 2024.
The fines are proportionate to the dimensions of the membership’s squad price extra.
The particulars are as follows:
Clubs |
Fine |
Chelsea FC (ENG) |
€11m |
Aston Villa FC (ENG) |
€6m |
Besiktas JK (TUR)* |
€0.9m |
Panathinaikos FC (GRE) |
€0.4m |