Chelsea, Aston Villa and Barcelona are among several clubs to have been fined by UEFA for breaching financial regulations over the years ending 2023 and 2024.
UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) has ruled Chelsea must pay almost £27m, Barca £13m and Villa £9.5m with all three agreeing settlement agreements over different durations.
If those agreements are not complied with in full, further financial sanctions will be imposed.
All of Barca’s sanction, and the bulk of those handed out to Chelsea and Villa, are due to the CFCB ruling they failed to comply with the football earnings rule with particular attention paid to the transactions involving the sale of tangible or intangible assets, the exchange of players (so called “swaps”) and the transfers of players between related parties.
The details are summarised below:
Clubs
Duration
Total fine
Out of which unconditional
Chelsea FC (ENG)
4 years
€80m
€20m
FC Barcelona (ESP)
2 years
€60m
€15m
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
4 years
€50m
€12.5m
Aston Villa FC (ENG)
3 years
€20m
€5m
HNK Hajduk Split (CRO)
3 years
€1.2m
€0.3m
CFCB also rule on squad cost rule
Chelsea and Villa were also found to have breached the squad cost rule, having reported a squad cost ratio above 80% for 2024.
The fines are proportionate to the size of the club’s squad cost excess.
The details are as follows:
Clubs
Fine
Chelsea FC (ENG)
€11m
Aston Villa FC (ENG)
€6m
Besiktas JK (TUR)*
€0.9m
Panathinaikos FC (GRE)
€0.4m
