36 points deducted from FC Sion....

They fielded ineligible players....

.... Thirty Six Points.

36.

wow.

 

They also kept trying to appeal in the face of better judgment.

Makes me wish Chelsea's transfer embargo a couple of years ago had been upheld...

 

Isn't that about what they're on?

Maybe lost all of the points they gained with ineligible players?

 

I thought they were being investigated for ineligible players in the Europa league ? There was some talk of Swiss teams being kicked out of all european competitions.


Have you got a link so i can read?

 

So now the Swiss FA have intervened no chance of Manure gettin back into CL

 

They played ineligible players in a Europa league qualifier against Celtic and they thrashed Celtic. UEFA then kicked them out of he competition and allowed Celtic to enter the group stages in FC Sion place. I thought that would have been it for the punishment. Banned from Europe for 3 years and a hefty fine would have been suitable but deducting 36 points seems harsh, especially since it was in the Europa league and not the Swiss league that the offence took place.

 

Seems fairly harsh to me too. It's not as if those players helped them amass 36 points, considering they only had 31 anyway. They're now on minus 5, but they'll be okay as there is very little quality in that league.

 

The Swiss Football Association moved to avoid suspension from world football Friday by handing FC Sion a 36-point penalty in a long-running dispute over the club's fielding of ineligible players.

The Swiss FA said its decision to penalize Sion three points for every league game in which ineligible players played was a response to FIFA's threat to suspend all Swiss clubs, including FC Basel and the national side, from taking part in international matches.

Basel is due to meet Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 on Feb. 22, a rare foray into the upper echelons of international football for a club from Switzerland.

FIFA had given the Swiss Football Association until Jan. 14, 2012, to discipline Sion or face suspension over the saga that began in 2009, when world football's governing body imposed a one-year transfer ban on the club for illegally signing goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary.

Sion, which ignored the transfer embargo and signed six players in the offseason, has doggedly contested FIFA's ruling in the courts despite facing increasingly harsh penalties from football authorities.

''The Swiss Football Association has today demanded from FIFA confirmation that the suspension will not now come into effect,'' the league said in a statement. ''FIFA's answer is still being awaited.''

FIFA said in a statement that it took note of the Swiss league's action and would consider it at an Emergency Committee meeting in early January.

The penalty for Sion falls short of FIFA's demand to also forfeit most of the club's results this season, as this would automatically have resulted in opposing sides gaining the points deducted from Sion, the league said.

The Swiss Football Association said Sion now stands last in the league table, with minus five points, but can continue to play in the country's cup competition. The points deduction may be challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

 

ouch,
How many matches is there left in their league?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2080294/Sion-docked-36-points-Swiss-FA.html

 

Total bullshit in my opinion. FIFA are a bunch of ****ing power-crazy twats, the Swiss FA must have done something to piss them off in the past because you can't just threaten to ban all Swiss teams from European competition because of what one has done. Would've been hell on if they'd actually went through with it.

As for the punishment of Sion themselves, it should be classed as cruel and unusual. As someone else said expulsion from the Europa competition and a hefty fine would've been enough, taking their entire league points total from them is just way too far, and could be the complete ruin of the club. Just can't help thinking this would never have happened to a Man Utd or Real Madrid in the same situation.

 

tbf it did look like Sion were taking the piss a bit, appealing for the sake of it in the end. They were never going to win.

But 36 points deduction is ****ing ridiculous! At least keep the punishment restricted to European competition...

 

While I don't know whether they are guilty or not, threatening league associations to get your own way is typical of FIFAs approach to governing world football.

 

....If that's the sort of stunt they've been pulling I wouldn't mind betting my cuckoo clock's not the genuine article.

 

The next team is Lausanne on 11 points.