Manchester City

Manchester City have been referred to an independent commission over more than 100 alleged breaches of Premier League finance rules, England's top-flight ...

FFP regulations are designed to stop clubs running up big losses through spending on players. "The members of the Commission will be appointed by the independent Chair of the Premier League Judicial Panel," the Premier League said in a The club are also charged with failing to comply with Premier League's rules requiring clubs to follow UEFA's financial fair play (FFP) regulations from the 2013-14 to 2017-18 seasons and failing to follow the Premier League's rules on profit and sustainability from the 2015-16 to 2017-18 seasons. City are alleged to have breached rules relating to the provision of accurate financial information, "in particular with respect to its revenue (including sponsorship revenue), its related parties and its operating costs," the league said. The club, who were acquired by City Football Group in 2008, are also charged with failing to cooperate with and assist the Premier League in its investigation, which was launched in December 2018. Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Premier League has referred Manchester City to an independent commission over more than 100 alleged breaches of finance rules since the club were acquired by the Abu Dhabi-based City Football Group.

The Premier League accused City, one of the most successful teams in soccer, with persistently breaking rules about reporting its revenues, sponsorships and ...

A judge ruled against City, and even chided the process that had allowed City to win multiple league titles as the case dragged on without resolution. The league is one of the world’s richest sporting competitions, and it is populated by a half-dozen more of the world’s most deep-pocketed teams — all of them chasing the same prizes as City every season. But last spring he revealed that he told the club’s management he would quit if what they had told him was found to be untrue. Bankrolled by one of the world’s richest men, the club appeared prepared to spend any sum to prevail. Unlike UEFA, the Premier League does not have a statute of limitations in its disciplinary regulations. No previous Premier League investigation has lasted as long as the current case against City, for example, nor has one produced allegations of wrongdoing spread over so many seasons. The club declared itself “surprised by the issuing of these alleged breaches” and said that it had turned over a “vast amount of detailed materials.” Manchester City is accused of more than 100 violations, including failing to provide accurate financial information “that gives a true and fair view of the club’s financial position”; not disclosing contractual payments to managers and players; and failing, as required, to cooperate with Premier League investigators. City has been a leading light over the past decade, with six championships since 2012, including four of the past five. But the City case is already unusual for a number of reasons. In effect, UEFA’s investigation had taken too long to consider the most serious offenses, the appeals panel found, and so the club escaped the harshest punishments levied against it. League officials declined to comment further on the statement or on the case against City.

The statement from the Premier League on the charges against Manchester City came early on Monday morning but there was no information about the potential ...

The proceedings before the Commission will, in accordance with Premier League Rule W.82, be confidential and heard in private. Commissions are independent of the Premier League and member clubs. This confirmation is made in accordance with Premier League Rule W.82.1. (a) for Season 2015/16, Premier League Rules E.52 to E.60; and (4) for Season 2015/16, Premier League Rules T.13 and T.20. (3) for Seasons 2013/14 and 2014/15, Premier League Rules T.12 and T.19; and As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all." (2) for Season 2012/13, Premier League Rules P.7 and P.8; and (2) for Season 2012/13, Premier League Rules T.12 and T.20; (g) for Season 2015/16, Premier League Rules 16, E.3, E.4, E.11, E.12 and E.50; City have been referred to an independent commission over the charges. (d) for Season 2012/13, Premier League Rules 16, E.3, E.4, E.11 and E.12;

Manchester City Football Club is facing an investigation into its finances by England's Premier League, risking a points deduction that could dash its chances at the title and see it miss out on qualifying for Europe's lucrative Champions League.

The club will face a commission over alleged rule breaking between 2009 and 2016 regarding financial reporting on revenue and manager and player ...

The paper is expected to recommend an independent regulator to monitor club ownership and funding. As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all." The organizing body of the top-level English men's league said this included its rule that clubs must provide it with accurate financial information representing a "true and fair view of the club's financial position," particularly relating to revenue.

The English Premier League has accused Manchester City of more than 100 financial rules and referred the club to an independent commission, according to a ...

The ban was later overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), although the body ruled that City had failed to cooperate with UEFA authorities and an original fine of 30 million euros ($34 million) was reduced to 10 million ($11.3 million). [statement ](https://www.mancity.com/news/club/club-statement-premier-league-63811282)on Monday, the club said: “Manchester City FC is surprised by the issuing of these alleged breaches of the Premier League Rules, particularly given the extensive engagement and vast amount of detailed materials that the EPL has been provided with. The Premier League also alleges that City failed to comply with UEFA’s financial fair play (FFP) regulations from the 2013-14 to 2017-18 seasons and failed to follow the Premier League’s rules on profit and sustainability from the 2015-16 to 2017-18 seasons.

Manchester City have been charged by the Premier League over breaking financial rules across nine seasons.

Last season, City won their sixth Premier League title since their takeover in 2008. In their verdict clearing City, CAS ruled that much of the evidence had fallen outside of a five-year time limit. A Premier League statement read: "In accordance with Premier League Rule W.82.1, the Premier League confirms that it has today referred a number of alleged breaches of the Premier League Rules by Manchester City Football Club to a Commission under Premier League Rule W.3.4." City have previously branded the Premier League investigation as "resulting from the illegal hacking and out of context publication of club emails." City have been charged with more than 100 breaches of rules that required the club, according to the Premier League, to provide "accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club's financial position." The Premier League confirmed that a number of alleged breaches between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons have been referred to an independent commission with the conclusion of a four-year investigation.

The Emirati-owned Premier League reigning champion is the sixth most-valuable soccer club in the world at $4.25 billion.

sanctioned the team’s long-time Russian owner Roman Abramovich and the American owners of Manchester United and Lvierpool each exploring a sale of their own. Manchester City finished atop the Premier League each of the last two seasons and currently sits in second place on the 2022-23 table, trailing only Arsenal. Manchester City’s majority owner is City Football Group, a massive soccer conglomerate ultimately overseen by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an ultra-wealthy member of one of the United Arab Emirates’ most powerful families. [Manchester City's Champions League ban lifted by court of arbitration for sport](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/13/manchester-city-champions-league-ban-lifted-cas-court-of-arbitration-for-sport) (Guardian) [reported](https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1622566005074456576) Manchester City can’t appeal any Premier League punishment at the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, which [overturned](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/13/manchester-city-champions-league-ban-lifted-cas-court-of-arbitration-for-sport) the English club’s 2020 ban from Champions League competition for related offenses. [statement](https://www.mancity.com/news/club/club-statement-premier-league-63811282), Manchester City said it was “surprised” by the allegations and said the club has a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence” for its defense.

Explosive development comes at the end of a four-year investigation by the world's most popular soccer league in the wake of leaked club emails and ...

There are no such time limits on the finances under investigation by the Premier League. The Premier League released a long statement detailing a list of about 80 alleged breaches of its financial rules by City from 2009-18, the first nine full seasons under Abu Dhabi ownership. That case arose on the back of the leaked information, too. City, the defending Premier League champion and a team owning some of the world's top players like Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne, could be at risk of severe punishment. A large fine seems inevitable if the charges are proven. "As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all."

Team's financial shell game has led to charges from Premier League, and they don't have same escape route from last time.

Maybe they find a way out of this one too, and in the long run, it’s unlikely to knock them too far off track. That’s the most likely route, and it’s most likely to start next season than it is a dock on this current one. Juve’s latest 15-point deduction is more in line with what City is accused of, and that’s cooking the books to make a club look more profitable than it is. This was a four-year investigation, so the adjudication of it isn’t going to happen in a couple of weeks. If no penalties are levied for this season, it’s still pretty easy to picture City overcoming a 15-point penalty to not just survive but get back into the Champions League places in the next. The idea that they could be relegated out of the Premier League is fanciful. The offenses that City allegedly committed were too far in the past then for UEFA to punish them for it, according to UEFA rules. Whenever and whatever the commission that’s been formed to hear the case, their ruling is the final word. And this time, City can’t appeal to the CAS or anyone else. [Premier League’s statement](https://www.premierleague.com/news/3045970), there’s a lot of legalese and references to various Premier League rules, but it isn’t all that different from what UEFA charged them with and originally handed them a two-year ban on European competitions. First came a surprisingly limp 1-0 defeat at their house of horrors Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to Spurs, and then today came news that the And yes, this is what UEFA tried to get City on a couple years ago, but couldn’t.

Man City endured a difficult weekend on and off the pitch, Real Madrid lost again and Liverpool's free fall continued. Here's what you missed.

Sevilla's defence went all Keystone Kops for [Gavi](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/323702/Gavi)'s second and [Raphinha](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231050/Raphinha) added a third. [Nick Pope](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/161715/Nick-Pope) conceded a goal for the first time since November. [Romelu Lukaku](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/139437/Romelu-Lukaku) and [Marcelo Brozovic](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/178383/Marcelo-Brozovic) look ready to return as starters. [Victor Osimhen](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/228296/Victor-Osimhen) bagged two goals -- one a tap-in, the other after a prodigious leap -- but it was his actions before the game that stole the show. [Karim Adeyemi](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/274913/Karim-Adeyemi)'s standout performance out wide, Sildillia might not have been lured into bad challenges. And if that wasn't enough, he still has a [Mason Greenwood](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/276221/Mason-Greenwood) situation to [deal with](/soccer/manchester-united-engman_utd/story/4867362/criminal-proceedings-discontinued-against-man-united-player-mason-greenwood). [Kingsley Coman](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/184012/Kingsley-Coman) reminded us what he can do when fit. [Scott McTominay](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/255850/Scott-McTominay)'s injury concerns and Eriksen out, [Marcel Sabitzer](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/173907/Marcel-Sabitzer) will likely be thrown in at the deep end for the next few games, leaving Ten Hag with little margin for error. [Dayot Upamecano](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/222793/Dayot-Upamecano) may not be everyone's cup of tea, but you feel his absence when he's not there. And then came [Casemiro](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/173666/Casemiro)'s red card. [Manchester City](/soccer/team?id=382) lost 1-0 away to Tottenham, a result that meant they could not take advantage of league-leading Arsenal's loss to [Everton](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/198940/Everton) the previous day. [Arsenal](/soccer/team?id=359) and [Man City](/soccer/team/_/id/382/manchester-city), lost, but the bigger news around City was charges against them of breaching financial rules dating back as far as 2009.

The Premier League champions are accused of more than 100 breaches of financial rules. The Athletic answers all the key questions.

We do not know what announcement or event is coming on Wednesday, but somebody in the government’s media planning team has spotted it and pushed the football white paper back again. Eleven months later, the adjudication chamber of its FFP watchdog, the Club Financial Control Body, ruled City had misstated their annual accounts between 2012 and 2016 to the tune of £200million. It also said the club had not cooperated with its investigation. And while that may sound a little awkward, UEFA is used to having potential Champions League winners on the naughty step. UEFA’s investigation started immediately after those Der Spiegel revelations, as its FFP rules were — and still are — much tighter than the Premier League’s in terms of permitted annual losses. Pearce also featured in a number of the leaked emails, which ultimately did not lead to any punishments. It claimed Manchester City’s owners had been funnelling money into the club via inflated sponsorship deals with UAE-based companies in order to circumvent UEFA’s FFP rules. [Previous allegations](https://theathletic.com/3237128/2022/04/09/explained-the-latest-allegations-about-manchester-citys-sponsorships-transfers-and-contracts/) about Mancini’s contract, published by German news outlet Der Spiegel, alleged a company linked to the Italian issued invoices to the Abu Dhabi United Group, City’s holding company, presided over by owner Sheikh Mansour. I put my faith in you because I believe you 100 per cent from day one and I defend the club because of that’.” This has the potential to take months. [City were banned from European competitions for two years by UEFA](https://theathletic.com/1609547/2020/02/14/manchester-city-champions-league-ban-cas-two/) for alleged breaches of its FFP regulations in February 2020. The club are also accused of not fully disclosing managerial remuneration for a four-year period.

Could City really get tossed out of the Premier League? The rules are clear. The outcome of a complicated case is not.

The Premier League said, in following its rules, it had referred the accusations against City to an independent commission. For the seasons from 2013 to 2018, the Premier League contends, Manchester City was in violation of those requirements. One of the more serious accusations against City is that it did not cooperate with the investigations into its actions, including providing documents and information. Several years ago, City sued the Premier League, asking a court to block efforts to force it to turn over crucial documents. That body will take the case to a confidential hearing — read: private, no media (but expect leaks) — and then the Premier League will publish the commission’s final decision on its website. City lost that case, as well as an attempt to block the publication of the judge’s findings in the case once it was over. City, however, had the judgment overturned on a technicality: It successfully argued at the Court of Arbitration for Sport that the most serious allegations — linked to its sponsorship agreements with Etisalat and Etihad — were outside UEFA’s statute of limitations. Losing any of it in the stroke of a pen would be astonishing. In 2020, UEFA hit Manchester City with a two-season ban from European competition, a suspension that would have kept City from playing in the lucrative and hugely popular Champions League. All Premier League clubs sign up to a code of compliance, promising to behave as good-faith actors and provide up-to-date and true versions of their accounts to be audited every year. Could City really get tossed out of the Premier League? It is also accused of not cooperating with Premier League investigators.

Manchester City have been accused of breaking financial rules by the Premier League as the result of a long-standing investigation.

Any potential judgement can be appealed by both City and the Premier League but it is outside of CAS' jurisdiction this time. Although City being kicked out of the Premier League is unlikely, a hefty points deduction should not be ruled out. The Premier League have also alleged that the club has not been cooperative with the investigation since late 2018. [A Premier League statement has said that City breached rules which required them to provide "accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club's financial position." Premier League rules stipulate that City could be deducted points or even threatened with ejection from the competition. The Premier League also claims that City did not comply with UEFA's financial fair play for over five years and that they are not cooperating with the investigation. Manchester City have been accused of breaking financial rules by the Premier League as the result of a long-standing investigation. The idea of financial fair play is that you spend what you earn. The defending English champions have been hit with more than 100 charges relating to a nine-year span as part of an investigation which has taken nearly five years to piece together. The club has also been accused of failure to cooperate with the investigation since late 2018. After a long period of investigation, the Premier League has charged Manchester City with breaking financial rules. The club was banned from European club competitions but saw that ruling overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2020.

That leaked evidence led UEFA investigators to examine likely breaches of financial rules designed to create stability in an often-volatile European soccer ...

When UEFA in 2011 began monitoring finances of clubs who qualified for European competition, City had made progress by spending big on players. He allegedly doubled his base salary for advising a club in Abu Dhabi. Thirty more charges relate to Man City’s lack of cooperation in the past five seasons with a Premier League investigation that opened after leaked, and likely hacked, club internal communications were published in 2018. Known as Financial Fair Play, the regulations are aimed at preventing clubs from spending more than they earn. That could range from imposing a fine to taking away a title or even ejecting Man City from England’s top division. Critics believed they would favor storied clubs with established global appeal, such as Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester United.

Manchester City could face a wide range of punishments if charges against them are proven - but how likely is each one?

“If they are not, then the sanctions may be subject to appeal, both by the club on the basis that they are excessive, or the Premier League on the basis that they are unduly lenient.” “The decision of a commission or appeal panel can’t be challenged by way of arbitration on the basis that a party thinks the decision is simply wrong or harsh,” says Hill. “Whilst the commission has discretion as to what sanctions to impose, any sanctions must be reasonable and proportionate based on the seriousness of the breaches in question,” says Hill. cancel or refuse the registration of a Player registered or attempted to be registered in contravention of these Rules order the Respondent to pay compensation unlimited in amount to any Person or to any Club (or club) recommend that the Board orders that a League Match or such other match as is referred to in Rule W.51.4.1 be replayed The biggest question would be whether a deduction would apply retrospectively to the seasons in which the breaches occurred or the season in which the case is decided. “I would expect that if there is a points deduction it would be applied to the season in which the decision is made rather than retrospectively,” says If City are found to have broken the rules, given the number and the severity of the allegations, that is highly unlikely to be their sole punishment. However, if certain club officials are deemed to have flagrantly broken the rules on the basis of the evidence, they could also be punished in separate proceedings. City — who expressed their “surprise” at the announcement and are determined to fight their corner — will have their case heard by an independent commission, which will have to decide if the club are in breach of Premier League rules. If the Premier League’s complaint about City is proven, then the club will be able to present any mitigating factors for the independent commission to consider before deciding on a punishment.