Juventus were penalized following allegations of illegal accounting and will drop from third to the bottom of the table.

The penalty point minus 15 points for the season was confirmed by the Italian Football Federation prosecutors on Friday evening. Juventus announced that they would appeal to the Olympic Committee in Italy.

That means Juventus will drop from 3rd place with 37 points to 11th place with 22 points. Then there will be 12 points up to fourth place, which was taken by Lazio (34 points), which gave the Champions League place. 18 of the 38 rounds of the series have been played.

Former president Andrea Agnelli will also be banned from playing Italian football for two years, while former sporting director Fabio Paratici (now at Tottenham and the suspension will not affect his current position) will be banned for two and a half years. Eleven Juventus managers – including Pavel Nedved, Paolo Garimberti and Maurizio Arrivabene – will be banned for 8-16 months.

Prosecutors in Turin have been investigating Juventus since 2021 following allegations of illegal accounting and irregularities surrounding transfers and loan agreements for several players. At the end of November, the entire Juventus board resigned, including strong president Andrea Agnelli, as well as vice president and club legend Pavel Nedved. Juventus denied that they had done anything wrong in this matter.

The Agnelli family, one of Italy’s richest men after Giovanni Agnelli founded Fiat in 1899, have owned Juventus since 1923. Andrea Agnelli served as club president for 13 years and Juventus won 13 titles in those years, including nine in a row. (2012). –2020 ).

The Torino club lost the Champions League final in 2015 and 2017, and even big signing Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t help their dream of crowning Europe for the first time since 1996.

Gianluca Ferrero has taken over as the new Juventus president.

In 2006, Juventus were stripped of their two league championships and relegated to Serie B in a major Italian match-fixing scandal.

Juventus were humiliated in the top flight away from league leaders Napoli by 1-5 last Friday. On Sunday at 20:45, Juventus face Atalanta. You can watch everything from Serie A on VG+ Sport.