Serie A giants Juventus have been docked 15 points following an investigation into the club’s past transfer dealings, Italy’s football federation (FIGC) has confirmed.
The FIGC says Juve used transfers to artificially boost their balance sheet.
Juventus had been in third place but the penalty will drop them to 10th.
The sanction comes after the club’s board of directors, including president Andrea Agnelli and vice-president Pavel Nedved, resigned in November.
Juventus have denied any wrongdoing and are expected to appeal the decision.
The FIGC has also hit Agnelli and the club’s former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene with two-year bans.
In a statement in November, the outgoing board said their resignations were “considered to be in the best social interest to recommend that Juventus equip itself with a new board of directors to address these issues”.
Juve’s former sports director Fabio Paratici, now Tottenham’s managing director of football, has been banned for 30 months.
The Turin-based club were initially acquitted in an investigation in April 2022. The investigation concerned “revenues from player registration rights” between 2019 and 2021 and it was reopened in December 2022.
Agnelli was president of Juventus for 12 years during which time the club ran up record losses.
Juve’s next league game is at home to Atalanta on Sunday.
