That was eventually overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July of the same year with City vehemently denying any suggestion they were in financial breach of UEFA’s rules. But the Premier League’s latest report pointing out the breaches specifically in relation to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations leaves more questions for City to answer.
The remaining two sections in the Premier League report point to rule breaches on profit and sustainability in the 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons as well as a failure to ‘cooperate with, and assist, the Premier League in its investigations, including by providing documents and information to the Premier League in the utmost good faith’ between 2018 and now. Under rule B.6 in the Premier League handbook, a club can be expelled from the league ‘upon a special resolution to that effect being passed by a majority of not less than three-quarters of such members as (being entitled to do so) vote by their representatives or by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution has been duly given’.
The reigning Premier League champions have now been referred to an independent commission over the alleged breaches. But, unlike the Champions League ban City face three years ago, the new set of breaches are not ‘time-barred’ under Premier League rules.
CAS noted at the time of their investigation that most of the allegations of FFP regulation breaches were ‘either not established or time-barred’.
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