December 23 – UEFA has enforced its Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules with sanctions of fines and exclusion from European competitions for five clubs and a reprimand for a sixth. The sanctions all relate to overdue payments and were handed down by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body’s adjudicatory chamber.
The clubs hardest hit are Skonto FC, FC Petrolul Ploieşti and FC Metalurh Donetsk.
Latvia’s Skonto FC is excluded from the next UEFA club competition it qualifies for within the next three seasons. The sanction will be suspended if the club is able to prove by 31 January 2014 that it has paid the amounts due on 30 September 2013. The club has also been fined €40,000.
FC Petrolul Ploieşti froim Romania is also is excluded from participating in the next excluded from the next UEFA club competition it qualifies for within the next three seasons.unless it can prove by 31 January 2014 that it has settled outstanding amounts due on 30 September 2013. The club has been fined €50,000.
Ukraine’s FC Metalurh Donetsk has received exactly the same sanction but a higher fine of €80,000.
The decisions of the CFCB adjudicatory chamber are as follows:
Poland’s WKS Śląsk Wrocław has been fined €20,000, CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu from Romania has been fined €40,000 while Portugal’s Vitória SC has been given a reprimand.
The UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) adjudicatory chamber, is chaired by José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues, and took these decisions following the cases being referred to it by the CFCB chief investigator.
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