The Italian Football Federation punished Juventus with a 15 points deduction on Friday for using transfers to fraudulently increase their financial sheet, with the club’s troubled start to the new year slipping into further disaster
The FIGC said in a statement that Juve will suffer the points deduction this season, dealing a devastating blow to their ambitions of competing in the Champions League next year.
Juventus drop down from third to 10th place on just 22 points, 15 from the top four positions in Italy’s top flight.
Missing out on Europe’s top — and richest — club competition would be a further blow to the club’s accounts which last season were nearly 239m euros in the red.
Juve’s current sporting director Federico Cherubini was also banned for 16 months, another serious punishment which Juve said in a statement they would appeal at the Italian Olympic Committee.
The Serie A table with Juventus’ 15-point deduction 😐 pic.twitter.com/SDIGG8K4ko
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The club’s former leadership were also handed long bans by the FIGC including two years to ex-chairman Andrea Agnelli and former CEO Maurizio Arrivabene and 30 months to former sporting director Fabio Paratici, now at Tottenham Hotspur.
The FIGC also said that it had asked that the bans — which also included eight months for former vice-president and playing icon Pavel Nedved — be extended beyond Italy to the jurisdictions of international governing bodies UEFA and FIFA.
All eight other clubs facing potential FIGC sanctions, including Serie A teams Sampdoria and Empoli, were acquitted, something Juve’s legal team called “a clear injustice”.
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