July 1 – Juventus have been hit with a €20 million fine and Newcastle with a €10 million fine for breaking UEFA financial sustainability rules over the football earnings rule.
Newcastle had a further fine €3 million fine for breaking UEFA’s squad cost rules (reporting a squad cost ratio above 70% for the 2025 calendar year), while Aston Villa were hit with a €22.5 million fine for breaking the same rule.
Chelsea, Nottingham Forest, OGC Nice, AEK Athens, Fiorentina and Fenerbahçe were also hit with fines for breaking the squad cost rules, but the largest fine was the €25 million levied on Chelsea’s French sister club RC Strasbourg.
In total the CFCB First Chamber imposed unconditional disciplinary measures on 14 clubs
The sanctions for breaching the football earnings rule were assessed on a 3-year aggregate basis in the 2025/26 season, and covered the financial years ending in 2023, 2024 and 2025. UEFA’s Football Earnings Rule (limits clubs in European competitions to a maximum aggregate loss of €60 million over a rolling three-year monitoring period.
Nice, Portugal’s Santa Clara, Kazakhstan’s FC Astana (KAZ) and Serbia’s FK Partizan also fell on the wrong side of the rules.
Newcastle and Juve reached a conditional settlement agreement with the CFCB for a 3-year period, during which if they comply fully with the regulations going forward and achieve full compliance with the football earnings rule by the end of the settlement period in the 2028/29 season, will see their fines reduced by €14 million for Juve (they will still be liable for €6 million), and by €7 million for Newcastle.
Across the two sanctions Newcastle will pay UEFA €6 million.
Both clubs face restrictions on registering new players on their List A for UEFA competitions.
Football Earnings rule sanctions:
Clubs Settlementperiod Totalfine Out of which conditional
Juventus FC (ITA) 3 years €20m €14m
Newcastle United FC (ENG) 3 years €10m €7m
UEFA said that OGC Nice and Santa Clara demonstrated that their breach of the football earnings rule was temporary and were fined €2 million and €1 million, of which €1.7 million and €850,000 are suspended and only payable if the club does not meet the football earnings rule in the 2026/27 season.
FC Astana and FK Partizan reported a minor breach of the football earnings rule and were fined €100,000 and €200,000.
Squad cost breaches
Aston Villa and Chelsea were both sanctioned last season, but the CFCB First Chamber “took into consideration the improving trend in their squad cost ratio between 2024 and 2025 in line with projections submitted as part of their settlement agreement.”
As a result, Villa had €15 million of their €22.5 million fine suspended and Chelsea had €2 million of their €3 million fine suspended, both conditional on the clubs continuing to decrease their squad cost ratio in 2026.
For RC Strasbourg, who had €12 million of their €25 million fine suspended – this is amount exceeding the prize money earned by the club in the UEFA competition. Strasbourg and Villa both have player restrictions for the upcoming season.
Squad cost breach sanctions:
Clubs Totalfine Out of which conditional
RC Strasbourg (FRA)* €25m €12m
Aston Villa FC (ENG)* €22.5m €15m
Fenerbahçe SK (TUR) €7m –
ACF Fiorentina (ITA) €6m –
Chelsea FC (ENG) €3m €2m
Newcastle United FC (ENG) €3m –
Nottingham Forest FC (ENG) €2.5m –
AEK Athens (GRE) €0.5m –
OGC Nice (FRA) €0.45m –
Separately FK Vardar Skopje declared an incomplete reporting perimeter which was corrected in the financial year ending in 2025. The club was imposed a fine of €250,000.
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