Chievo docked for underhand tactics

Milan – Serie A club Chievo have been deducted three points and fined €200 000 for false accounting, the Italian Football Association (FIGC) announced on Thursday.

The FIGC’s sports tribunal found Chievo guilty of adding around €27m to the real transfer fees of promising young players from Italian lower-league club Cesena between 2015 and 2018.

Club president Luca Campedelli has been banned for three months with four advisors suspended for six weeks.

The Verona club had been accused of using their player dealings with Cesena to create a false profit for both clubs and allow them to satisfy the conditions for registering in their respective divisions. Chievo played in Serie A in all the seasons involved.

The penalty falls short of the 15-point deduction requested by prosecutors.