Juventus was hit with a contemporary 10-point penalty, hampering its probabilities of qualifying for subsequent 12 months’s Champions League.
The newest punishment for false accounting dropped Juventus from second spot in Serie A to seventh.
It left the Bianconeri 5 factors behind AC Milan, which moved into fourth place in Serie A and the ultimate qualifying spot for the Champions League.
Juve’s probabilities of qualifying for Europe’s premier membership competitors would nonetheless have been in its personal fingers, because it performs Milan subsequent weekend. But — shortly after the sentence — Massimiliano Allegri’s crew misplaced at Empoli 4-1.
There are two rounds remaining.
Juventus mentioned in a press release that it may enchantment the penalty, dragging the state of affairs out till after the top of the season.
“What was established by the fifth instance of judgment in this matter, which began more than a year ago, arouses great bitterness in the club and in its millions of supporters who, in the absence of clear rules, find themselves extremely penalized with the application of sanctions that do not seem to take into account the principle of proportionality,” Juventus added.
“While not ignoring the need for urgency, which Juventus has never shied away from during the proceedings, it is emphasized that these are facts that still have to be evaluated by a judge.”
Juventus was handed a 15-point penalty in January and a number of other board members had been additionally banned from soccer actions, together with former president Andrea Agnelli.
The factors deduction was suspended final month on an enchantment to the nation’s highest sports activities courtroom inside the Italian Olympic Committee and referred again to the soccer federation’s appeals courtroom for a brand new trial.
That occurred on Monday. During the three-hour listening to, federation prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné requested an 11-point penalty for Juventus. He had requested for 9 again in January.
Chiné additionally requested eight-month bans for seven former Juventus administrators, together with Pavel Nedved, however they had been cleared on Monday.
Agnelli and three others had their appeals rejected final month.
The Juventus board resigned en masse in November following an investigation by Turin public prosecutors into alleged false bookkeeping.
A sports activities trial within the case was then reopened based mostly on data from the Turin prosecutors, resulting in the factors deduction. Juventus had initially been cleared by the sports activities courtroom the earlier April.
The prosecutors in Turin have additionally charged Juventus, Agnelli and 11 others with false communications by an organization listed publicly on the Milan inventory trade, obstructing watchdog businesses, false billing and market manipulation.
Juventus’ authorized troubles deepened nonetheless additional final week after the Italian soccer federation additionally charged the membership and 7 former crew administrators with alleged fraud for the best way they dealt with participant wage cuts in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.