Everton FC have been partially successful in their appeal against the Premier League’s ten-point deduction and have had the penalty reduced. But the next one is already looming
Everton FC made a small leap in the Premier League table on Monday evening without even having played. The league announced that the ten-point deduction imposed in November had been reduced by four points to six. As a result, Everton are no longer 17th in the table, but in 15th place and not one but five points above the relegation places.
Everton had been punished for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules. English Premier League clubs are only allowed to make losses of 105 million pounds (approx. 123 million euros) over a period of three years, while Everton were fined 124.5 million pounds (approx. 146 million euros) in the period up to the 2021/22 season
Everton fought back against the highest fine in Premier League history and now obtained a reduction before an independent appeals committee. Of the nine arguments put forward by the Toffees against the sanction, seven were rejected, but the other two were upheld.
Everton are already facing the next penalty
Firstly, the false information regarding the stadium debts was a “fraudulent error”; secondly, the commission responsible at the time “wrongly failed to take into account available benchmarks relied on by the club when assessing the proportionality of the sanction”, according to the reasoning. Everton had not disputed the fundamental breach of the rules.
In the meantime, however, the traditional Liverpool club has long since been threatened with the next points deduction. In mid-January, the Premier League accused the club of further breaches of the financial rules, this time in the period up to the 2022/23 season. Everton had criticized the fact that they could be prosecuted twice for the same period
