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Why have Barcelona been sanctioned by UEFA? What fine do they have to pay?
Some of Europe’s biggest clubs are being monitored by UEFA due to their financial activity. Manchester United have also been punished but PSG escape.
UEFA have announced they have taken measures against a number of clubs for non-compliance with Financial Fair Play regulations, with Barcelona and Manchester United amongst the high-profile offenders.
Why have UEFA fined Barcelona?
The LaLiga champions have been fined €500,000 for “for wrongly reporting, in the financial year 2022, profits on disposal of intangible assets (other than player transfers) which are not a relevant income under the regulations”.
The CFCB First Chamber, which regulated FFP, “concluded the assessment of the break-even requirement covering the financial years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. This is the last time the CFCB assessed the clubs on the basis of the ‘old’ Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, Edition 2018″, stated UEFA.
Why have Manchester United been sanctioned?
Two clubs, Royal Antwerp from Belgium and Turkey’s Trabzonspor, were fined €2 million each for not complying with the aforementioned “break-even requirement”. Of that amount, they must pay a fixed penalty of €300,000 (15%) while the remaining balance of €1.7 million (85%) “is conditional on the clubs’ compliance with the targets in their respective settlement agreements”.
United, along with Konyaspor, also from Turkey, and Cypriot side APOEL reported “minor break-even deficits”. As a result, the Red Devils were fined €300,000, with the other two clubs each forced to pay €100,000.
PSG among European giants monitored by UEFA
Finally, the CFCB First Chamber revealed that throughout the 2022/23 campaign they monitored nine clubs who had been previously been issued settlement agreements for not complying with FFP regulations in the past. French clubs Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco and Marseille, along with Italian giants Milan, Inter and Roma, as well as Besiktas of Turkey, all met their targets for the financial year 2022 and will continue to be monitored by UEFA.