Chelsea have been sanctioned by the FA for an incident that took place during their Premier League clash with top four rivals Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge in December
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Chelsea have been hit with an eye-watering FA fine after a water bottle was thrown at Aston Villa's bench during last month's Premier League clash.
A statement from the FA read: "Chelsea FC has been sanctioned for a breach of FA Rule E20.1 that occurred at its Premier League fixture against Aston Villa FC on Saturday 27 December 2025.
"It was alleged that the club failed to ensure its players and/or other relevant personnel around the technical area did not behave in an improper and/or provocative and/or abusive way after the final whistle."Chelsea FC subsequently admitted the charge. An independent Regulatory Commission has now imposed a £150,000 fine on the club following a hearing and its written reasons for this can be read below."
The written reasons for the fine added: "The Commission noted that had a spectator thrown a bottle at or into a technical area it would be considered as being a serious act of violence, not to be tolerated at a football match. It is a very poor example when a person involved at the highest level of professional football in England acts in such a disrespectful, irresponsible and dangerous way against his professional counterparts."
A report from referee Stuart Attwell described the incident. He said: “Following the match, I was made aware of an allegation that an unidentified member of the Chelsea technical area had thrown a plastic drinks bottle in the direction of the Aston Villa technical area. The alleged incident occurred immediately after the final whistle”.
Chelsea ended up slipping to a 2-1 defeat to Villa on the day. Joao Pedro had given the Blues the lead in the first half, only for a brace from Ollie Watkins to turn the game on its head. That defeat represented Enzo Maresca's penultimate game in charge of the Blues before he was eventually sacked.
He left Stamford Bridge on New Years' Day, just a couple of days after a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth.