Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have been
banned from registering new players for the next
two transfer windows, FIFA has announced.
FIFA's disciplinary committee announced that
the two clubs "violated several provisions
concerning the international transfer and first
registration" of players under age 18.
Atletico Madrid said on Thursday that they will
appeal the ban.
The clubs were found to have breached Article
19 of FIFA's Regulations on the Status and
Transfer of Players, which covers protection of
minors, as well as Article 5 on registration of
players and Article 9 on the requirement for an
international transfer certificate for each signing.
They will be allowed to sign players in the
current transfer window but are then set to be
banned from registering players to their squads
until after the 2016-17 season.
The statement from world football's governing
body added: "Both clubs are to serve a transfer
ban that prevents them from registering any
players at national and international level for the
next two complete and consecutive registration
periods for breaching articles 5, 9, 19 and 19bis
as well as annexes 2 and 3 of the Regulations on
the Status and Transfer of Players (the
'Regulations').
"The transfer ban, which does not affect the
current registration period at all, given that it
opened before the decisions were notified,
applies to each club as a whole
exception of the women's, futsal and beach
soccer teams -- and does not prevent the
release of players."
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for FIFA. @FIFATMS helps to ensure compliance
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- FIFA Media (@fifamedia) January 14, 2016
FIFA also said Atletico had been fined 900,000
Swiss francs (€822,600) and Real had been fined
360,000 Swiss francs (€329,000) and that "both
clubs have been issued with a reprimand and
given 90 days in which to regularise the situation
of all minor players concerned.
"La Liga side Barcelona served a transfer ban
lasting two consecutive transfer windows that
expired earlier this month.
FIFA suspended Barca's ban following an appeal
in April 2014, which allowed the club to buy and
register players that summer.
The sanction
became active in the January 2015 window.
There had been speculation for some time that
the two Madrid clubs would be punished, with
suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter telling El
Mundo Deportivo last month: "If Barca faced
sanctions for breaking FIFA rules and the two
Madrid clubs committed identical infractions,
then it's normal practice that they would face
similar sanctions.
"
In May of last year, Real Madrid had strongly
denied a report in Madrid-based newspaper AS
that they had brought 25 Chinese youngsters
under age 14 to live and develop as footballers in
Spain.
In January 2015, AS had published a special
report on La Liga clubs' reliance on foreign
youngsters in which it was said that Atletico had
the most non-Spanish players in its youth
academy, with 43 players from 26 countries. It
said 21 of them were younger than 16 at the
time.
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu,
whose club failed with an appeal at the Court of
Arbitration for Sport, has repeatedly criticised
FIFA's rules over youth transfers and said a year
ago that he did not wish to see archrivals Real
punished as a result.
FIFA has defended its regulations and said in the
statement: "FIFA works hard to protect the rights
of players under the age of 18
or female, amateur or professional.
"This is done through the enforcement of
regulations prohibiting the international transfer
of minors, or the first registration of minors in a
country other than their own, except in specific
circumstances (cf. art. 19 of the Regulations)
that must be approved by the sub-committee
appointed by the Players' Status Committee.
"As such, the provisions relating to the
protection of minors need to be strictly applied.
This has been confirmed on various occasions by
the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Opening up the
door to exceptions beyond those carefully drafted
and included in the Regulations would
unavoidably lead to cases of circumvention of
the rationale for these provisions."
Information from The Associated Press was used
in this report.
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