Juventus’ Frederico Gatti, Bremer, Filip Kostic, Wojciech Szczesny and Arkadiusz Milik look dejected after the loss to Empoli on May 22, 2023
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Juventus was hit with a contemporary 10-point penalty, hampering its possibilities of qualifying for subsequent 12 months’s Champions League.
The newest punishment for false accounting dropped Juventus from second spot in Serie A to seventh.
It left the Bianconeri 5 factors behind AC Milan, which moved into fourth place in Serie A and the ultimate qualifying spot for the Champions League.
Juve’s possibilities of qualifying for Europe’s premier membership competitors would nonetheless have been in its personal arms, because it performs Milan subsequent weekend. But — shortly after the sentence — Massimiliano Allegri’s group misplaced at Empoli 4-1.
There are two rounds remaining.
Juventus stated in an announcement that it might attraction the penalty, dragging the scenario out till after the top of the season.
“What was established by the fifth instance of judgment in this matter, which began more than a year ago, arouses great bitterness in the club and in its millions of supporters who, in the absence of clear rules, find themselves extremely penalized with the application of sanctions that do not seem to take into account the principle of proportionality,” Juventus added.
“While not ignoring the need for urgency, which Juventus has never shied away from during the proceedings, it is emphasized that these are facts that still have to be evaluated by a judge.”
Juventus was handed a 15-point penalty in January and several other board members had been additionally banned from soccer actions, together with former president Andrea Agnelli.
The factors deduction was suspended final month on an attraction to the nation’s highest sports activities court docket inside the Italian Olympic Committee and referred again to the soccer federation’s appeals court docket for a brand new trial.
That came about on Monday. During the three-hour listening to, federation prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné requested an 11-point penalty for Juventus. He had requested for 9 again in January.
Chiné additionally requested eight-month bans for seven former Juventus administrators, together with Pavel Nedved, however they had been cleared on Monday.
Agnelli and three others had their appeals rejected final month.
The Juventus board resigned en masse in November following an investigation by Turin public prosecutors into alleged false bookkeeping.
A sports activities trial within the case was then reopened primarily based on info from the Turin prosecutors, resulting in the factors deduction. Juventus had initially been cleared by the sports activities court docket the earlier April.
The prosecutors in Turin have additionally charged Juventus, Agnelli and 11 others with false communications by an organization listed publicly on the Milan inventory trade, obstructing watchdog businesses, false billing and market manipulation.
Juventus’ authorized troubles deepened nonetheless additional final week after the Italian soccer federation additionally charged the membership and 7 former group administrators with alleged fraud for the way in which they dealt with participant wage cuts throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
