Juve, Newcastle, Villa and Chelsea fined by UEFA for breaching financial rules

June 30 : UEFA has imposed sanctions on 14 clubs, including Juventus, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Chelsea, for breaching its financial sustainability rules for the 2025-26 season, European soccer's governing body announced on Tuesday.

UEFA said the First Chamber of its Club Financial Control Body had completed its assessment of clubs in 2025-26 European competitions and handed out sanctions covering breaches of its football earnings rule, squad cost rule and financial reporting requirements.

The football earnings rule, an evolution of UEFA's former break-even test, requires clubs to keep aggregate football-related losses within a permitted threshold over a monitoring period, with excess deficits needing to be covered by equity or owner contributions.

Juve, Newcastle, OGC Nice, Santa Clara, FC Astana and FK Partizan failed to comply with the rule, which was assessed for the first time on a three-year aggregate basis, covering the financial years ending in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Juventus and Newcastle agreed three-year settlements requiring them to meet annual targets and achieve full compliance by the end of the 2028-29 season.

Juve were fined 20 million euros ($22.84 million), of which 14 million euros is conditional, while Newcastle were fined 10 million euros ($11.42 million), with 7 million suspended pending future compliance.

Both clubs will also face restrictions on registering new players on their List A for UEFA competitions. On List A, clubs can submit a maximum of 25 players, with eight places reserved exclusively for homegrown players.

Further sanctions are possible if they fail to meet targets, ranging from stricter registration limits to exclusion from the next UEFA competition for which they qualify.

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