{"id":35612,"date":"2026-09-29T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-city-charges-premier-league-confirms-club-guilty-of-all-charges-related-to-financial-rule-breaches\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:23:16","slug":"manchester-city-charges-premier-league-confirms-club-guilty-of-all-charges-related-to-financial-rule-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-city-charges-premier-league-confirms-club-guilty-of-all-charges-related-to-financial-rule-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Premier League has confirmed that <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An independent Commission found that during that time period, the club arranged &#8220;sham contracts&#8221; with a number of its commercial partners, as well as &#8220;relying on sham agreements to artificially inflate the club&#8217;s revenues and reduce its costs&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement also said that City were guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate, but an exact figure was not given. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c63reg93xwzro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League has confirmed that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18. An independent Commission found that during that time period, the club arranged &#8220;sham contracts&#8221; with a number of its commercial partners, as well as &#8220;relying on sham agreements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35614,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions\/35614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}