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Not our judgement. Just the record.
Every entry in this sector, with what was found and what followed
| Organisation | Case | Status | Conduct toward the regulator | Sanction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Forest | PSR breach, threshold exceeded by £34.5m against a £61m limit 5 | Admitted | Commission found “exceptional cooperation” 5 | −4 points appeal dismissed 6 |
| Everton (1st) | PSR breach; calculated loss of £124.5m 7 | Proven | Appeal Board found the club “acted in good faith” 7 | −10 → −6 points reduced on appeal, 26 Feb 2024 7 |
| Everton (2nd) | Further PSR breach of £16.6m 8 | Admitted | Admitted; appeal lodged then withdrawn 8 | −2 points remainder discontinued 8 |
| Leicester City | EFL P&S breach to 2023/24, transferred to the PL on promotion, 6 June 2024 9 | Proven | Contested jurisdiction and the power to deduct points; grounds dismissed 9 | −6 points upheld on appeal, 8 Apr 2026 9 |
| Chelsea | Undisclosed payments of £47.5m by connected third parties, 2011–2018 10 | Proven | Self-reported by the incoming ownership after due diligence 1011 | £10.75m fine no points; transfer bans; 17 Mar 2026 10 |
| Chelsea (UEFA) | Incomplete financial information, transactions 2012–2019 11 | Proven | Self-reported to UEFA 11 43 | €10m settlement 2023 11 |
| Manchester City | 114 of 115 charges upheld; “sham” contracts, misstated accounts; income overstated by over £830m, 2009/10–2017/18 3 | Pending | Commission: “concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation” 3 | Not yet decided separate hearing; appeal open 1 |
| Juventus | 2006 | Proven | Calciopoli: selecting favourable referees. Match-fixing, not finance 16 48 | Relegated to Serie B −9 pts (from −30, then −17); stripped of the 2004/05 and 2005/06 titles 16 |
| Bury | 2019 | Proven | Financial collapse; takeover withdrawn 18 2122 | Expelled from the EFL 27 Aug 2019 — first club expelled since 1992 18 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 2020/21 | Proven | P&S: profit on the Hillsborough sale wrongly included in the accounts to July 2018 19 46 | −12 → −6 points reduced on 4 November 19 |
| Manchester City | 2020 (UEFA) | Proven | CFCB imposed a two-year European ban and €30m. CAS found the other allegations “not established or time-barred” — which is not the same as disproved — but upheld that the club failed to co-operate 15 2324 | Ban overturned; €10m upheld reduced from €30m, for failure to co-operate, 13 Jul 2020 15 |
| Juventus | 2023 | Proven | Capital gains (plusvalenza): inflated player valuations in swap deals 17 4445 | −10 points −15 in Jan 2023, reversed on appeal, re-imposed as −10 in May 17 |
| Sheffield Wednesday | 2025/26 | Proven | Entered administration 20 47 | −12 points automatic on filing 20 |
The same question, asked of the published record rather than of anybody's opinion
Read the sanctions in the order below and one variable moves them more than the size of the breach does: what the club did when it was caught. This is not an argument, it is the arithmetic of the published decisions, and the conclusion is the reader's to draw.
The top three bands are settled and published. The fourth is not, and this record takes no position on what it should be — that is for the Commission, and then for whatever appeal follows. What the table shows is the range the Commission has previously worked within, and where in that range comparable conduct has landed.
Every claim above is referenced to one of these
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