Manchester Metropolis have been fined simply over £2m by the Premier League for breaching guidelines regarding kick-off and re-starts after half-time of matches.
There have been 22 separate breaches over the past two seasons, with eight coming through the 2022/23 marketing campaign and 14 final season.
Metropolis have apologised for the breaches and have agreed to pay the £2.09m superb to the Premier League.
The membership have additionally confirmed that it has reminded the gamers and the soccer administration groups of their obligations.
Video games that led to Man Metropolis’s superb…
- vs Crystal Palace (H) – August 27, 2022 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute 18 seconds)
- vs Brighton (H) – October 22, 2022 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute 19 seconds)
- vs Leeds (A) – December 28, 2022 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 34 seconds)
- vs Everton (H) – December 31, 2022 (Size of delay to kick-off: 2 minutes and 33 seconds)
- vs Leicester (H) – April 15, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 29 seconds)
- vs Everton (A) – Could 14, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 2 minutes and 15 second)
- vs Chelsea (H) – Could 21, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minuute and 26 seconds)
- vs Brighton (A) – Could 24, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 17 seconds)
- vs Burnley (A) – August 11, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 32 seconds)
- vs Newcastle (H) – August 19, 2023 (Size of delay to kick-off and restart: 2 minutes and 34 seconds and 1 minute and 17 seconds)
- vs Brighton (H) – October 21, 2023 (Size of delay to kick-off: 2 minutes and 35 seconds):
- vs Aston Villa (A) – December 6, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 34 seconds)
- vs Crystal Palace (H) – December 16, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 19 seconds)
- vs Sheffield United (H) – December 30, 2023 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 26 seconds)
- vs Newcastle (A) – January 13, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 46 seconds)
- vs Chelsea (H) – February 17, 2024 (Size of delay to kick-off: 1 minute and 55 seconds)
- vs Aston Villa (H) – April 3, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 40 seconds)
- vs Crystal Palace (A) – April 6, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 43 seconds)
- vs Brighton (A) – April 25, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 45 seconds)
- vs Nottingham Forest (A) – April 28, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 22 seconds)
- vs Tottenham (A) – Could 14, 2024 (Size of delay to restart: 1 minute and 27 seconds)
- vs West Ham (H) – Could 19, 2024 (Size of delay to kick-off: 2 minutes and 46 seconds)
The difficulty is unconnected to the 115 expenses Metropolis are dealing with for alleged breaches of the competitors’s monetary laws.
An announcement from the Premier League learn: “The Premier League and Manchester Metropolis FC have entered right into a sanction settlement after the membership accepted it had breached Premier League Rule L.33 regarding kick-off and re-start obligations.
“The breaches relate to quite a lot of Premier League matches through the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons.
What’s Rule L.33?
Rule L.33 states:
Any Membership which with out good cause causes to be delayed both the kick-off of a League
Match from the time fastened or the re-start after the half-time interval shall be handled
underneath the provisions of Part W (Disciplinary) of those Guidelines.
“Rules relating to kick-offs and re-starts help ensure the organisation of the competition is set at the highest possible professional standard and provides certainty to fans and participating clubs.
“It additionally ensures the published of all 380 League matches around the globe is stored to schedule.
“As required by the Premier League Rules, the sanction agreement has been ratified by three members of the Independent Judicial Panel.”
Metropolis have been punished on a sliding scale for every offence.
They had been discovered to have delayed restarts by 39 minutes and 52 seconds in complete in 23 late kick-offs throughout 22 video games within the final two seasons.
Their first, a delay of 1 minute and 18 seconds to the beginning of the second half towards Crystal Palace in August 2022, incurred a warning.
Fines starting from £10,000 to £200,000 have then been imposed for every subsequent breach. The longest delay was two minutes and 46 seconds for the beginning of the ultimate sport of the season towards West Ham final season, when Metropolis clinched a fourth successive title.
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