Chelsea and Juve, among the 14 clubs fined by UEFA for failing to comply with ‘Fair Play’

This Tuesday, UEFA imposed disciplinary sanctions and fines on a total of 14 European clubs for failing to comply with financial sustainability or Fair Play regulations, including Juventus, Chelsea, Newcastle or Aston Villa.

The First Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Committee (CFCB) announced, after evaluating the teams participating in European competitions for the 2025-2026 season, the imposition of economic sanctions, most of them in the millions, for financial non-compliance.

Regarding the football income norm, analyzed for the first time under a cumulative period of three years (2023-2025), Juventus and Newcastle They reached a three-year settlement agreement to regularize their situation before the close of the 2028-2029 season.

The Italian club faces like this a total fine of 20 million euros, of which 14 million are conditional on the fulfillment of its financial objectives.

For its part, the English club received a fine of 10 million euros, with 7 million of them in conditional format.

Both teams are also exposed to restrictions on the registration of new players on the official UEFA lists and sporting punishments if they do not reach the agreed goals.

By this same income rule, the French Nice and the Portuguese Santa Clara demonstrated that their fiscal imbalance was temporary and received fines of 2 and 1 million euros, respectively, with a large part of these amounts suspended under the condition of not violating the rule again next year.

In addition, Astana from Kazakhstan and Partizan from Serbia They suffered slightly smaller fines, 100,000 and 200,000 euros when it was determined that his offenses were minor.

As reported by the UEFA justice administration body, the second large block of sanctions was applied to the clubs that They exceeded the limit of 70% of their income allocated to the cost of their staff during 2025.

Strasbourg, with the highest fine

In this group, Strasbourg, of France, received the highest financial penalty with a fine of 25 million euros, of which 12 million are conditional, added to an immediate restriction to register new footballers after committing an infraction considered significant.

Immersed in a similar situation is the English Aston Villa, fined 22.5 million euros, of which 15 million remain suspended.

Chelsea, well off

For this excess spending on the squad, he was also penalized Chelsea with a fine of 3 million euros, of which 2 million are conditioned; Like Aston Villa, the European body took into account the improvement shown in its financial data to leave part of the punishment suspended.

The rest of the fines in this section affected the Turkish Fenerbahçe with 7 million euros, Fiorentina, from Italy, with 6 million euros and English Nottingham Forest with 2.5 million euros.

Added to these sanctions were the Greek AEK Athens with 500,000 eurosand the aforementioned Newcastle and Nice, which added additional fines of 3 million and 450,000 euros to their respective sanctions.

Bologna and Naples are saved

On the contrary, Bologna and Naples They also exceeded the 70% limit set by the regulations, but avoided any type of financial punishment thanks to the fact that they managed to compensate for this excess through the surplus of football income accumulated in their balance sheets.

The UEFA committee sanctioned the North Macedonia’s Vardar Skopje fined 250,000 euros for having presented incomplete financial information and omitting data in its reporting scope during the fiscal year, an error that the club itself has already corrected.

The fourteen clubs affected are, then, Juventus, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Nice, Strasbourg, Fiorentina, Fenerbahçe, Santa Clara, Astana, Partizan, AEK Athens and Vardar Skopje.