EVERTON’S punishment for breaching English Premier League financial rules has been reduced following an appeal.
The club was initially punished with a deduction of 10 points but it has now been cut down to six after the partially successful appeal.
They were immediately docked 10 points in November for breaching profit and sustainability rules in the three-year period to 2021/2022 but the club hierarchy insisted that they would appeal the verdict.
The punishment, which was the biggest in Premier League history, took Everton from 14th to 19th in the table at the time.
Now, with the reduction in the ban, Everton are up from 17th to 15th, five points clear of the relegation zone.
“An independent Appeal Board has concluded that the sanction for Everton FC’s breach of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSRs), for the period ending Season 2021/22, will be an immediate six-point deduction,” the Premier League stated on their official website today.
“This follows the club’s appeal of an independent Commission’s decision in November 2023 to impose a 10-point deduction for the club’s breach of the PSRs.
“The appeal was heard over three days earlier this month, by an Appeal Board comprising Sir Gary Hickinbottom (Chair), Daniel Alexander KC and Katherine Apps KC.
“Everton FC appealed the sanction imposed against it on nine grounds, each of which related to the sanction rather than the fact of the breach, which the club admitted.
“Two of those nine grounds were upheld by the Appeal Board, which has substituted the original points deduction of 10 for six.
“This revised sanction has immediate effect and the Premier League table will be updated today to reflect this.”
Meanwhile, Everton are facing another possible points deduction after being charged with breaching rules for a second time in January, for the three seasons up until 2022/2023.
