Manchester (dpa) - The English football champions Manchester City could face penalties in their home league by 2022 after being excluded from the Champions League.
As the English media report, the Premier League will take a closer look at Citizens' balance sheets between 2012 and 2016.
Although the European Football Union and the English League have different financial fair play rules, "they are close enough to give the impression that if City violated UEFA rules, which it did in the Premier League, too" , writes the BBC. The internet newspaper "The Independent" reports of possible point deductions for the team of star coach Pep Guardiola and the German national players Leroy Sané and Ilkay Gündogan. Manchester City were champions in 2012 and 2014, the club's two youngest of a total of six league titles in the past two seasons.
The club was sanctioned by UEFA on Friday. In addition to the ban on the European Cup competitions 2020/21 and 2021/22, the Citizens have to pay a fine of 30 million euros. The Abu Dhabi-based club has already announced that it will go to the CAS International Sports Court to contest the UEFA ruling.
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