{"id":1088000,"date":"2019-05-08T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1088000"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:12:11","slug":"chelsea-transfer-ban-appeal-rejected-fifa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/chelsea-transfer-ban-appeal-rejected-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea transfer ban appeal rejected by Fifa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifa has rejected Chelsea’s appeal against a two-window transfer ban with regard to their breaching of rules when signing young players. <\/strong><\/p>\n

As expected, the club now faces the prospect of being unable to sign new players for the upcoming summer and January transfer windows, with the only concession offered by Fifa being that Chelsea can still sign players under the age of 16.<\/p>\n

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The Blues have also been hit with a \u00a3460,000 fine while Fifa had already rejected Chelsea’s request to freeze the ban while proceedings were ongoing.<\/p>\n

A statement on Fifa’s official website<\/a> read: “The FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to partially uphold the appeal lodged by Chelsea FC against the decision of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee to sanction the club with a ban on registering new players at both national and international level for the next two complete and consecutive registration periods. This ban applied to the club as a whole \u2013 with the exception of the women\u2019s and futsal teams \u2013 and did not prevent the release of players.<\/p>\n

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“With respect to all men\u2019s teams, the ban on registering new players, both nationally and internationally for two registration periods, has been confirmed by the FIFA Appeal Committee, with the following exception:<\/p>\n

“The FIFA Appeal Committee believes that Chelsea\u2019s wrongdoing consisted in not respecting the prohibition from internationally transferring or registering for the first time foreign minor players. In the committee\u00b4s opinion, imposing a ban on registering each and every minor would not be proportionate to the offence committed.<\/p>\n

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OFFICIAL: Chelsea have lost their appeal against FIFA's decision to ban them from signing players during the next two transfer windows. pic.twitter.com\/7KvuCkx3Gx<\/a><\/p>\n

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