UEFA Slaps Unexpected Fines on Chelsea and Aston Villa: What Does This Mean for English Football?
The breaches follow extensive spending by Chelsea after the Todd Boehly/Clearlake consortium took over the club in May 2022. The club’s aggressive transfer activity—exceeding hundreds of millions of pounds—caught the attention of UEFA, which enforces stricter accounting standards than the Premier League. Unlike England’s top flight, UEFA does not allow clubs to count sales of assets to related parties as revenue. This stance meant Chelsea could not include £200 million in revenue from the sale of their women’s team to their parent company or £70.5 million from the sale of club-owned hotels to a sister company.
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