The FA takes Fifa to court over Chelsea transfer ban and £300k fine with hearing set for June
CHELSEA’S transfer ban case rumbles on - now the Football Association wants its punishment cut.
The FA is taking Fifa to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over a fine of just under £300,000 imposed for its role in the Blues’ breaches of rules about signing under-18 players.
In May 2019 Fifa’s Appeal Committee agreed that the FA had been guilty of “inexcusable” infractions of the regulations but reduced the penalty from the initial fine of just over £500,000.
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But after Chelsea enjoyed success at CAS in December, the FA fancies its chances of reducing the punishment still further.
CAS cut the Blues’ transfer ban from two windows to one and halved their fine.
Most significantly for the FA, the arbitration panel found that Chelsea had committed only a third of the offences that Fifa had laid at their door and that many were not as serious as claimed.
Fifa had initially accused Chelsea of 150 rule breaches involving 69 academy players over several seasons.
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Fifa hammered the FA for not doing enough to guarantee Chelsea followed the rules and ordered the English authorities to tighten up their procedures.
The CAS case is due to be heard in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 26.
The coronavirus crisis means it will to be heard via video conference or settled through written submissions.