{"id":14537,"date":"2023-12-13T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/14537\/pontypridd-united-face-historic-141\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:27:10","slug":"pontypridd-united-face-historic-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=14537","title":{"rendered":"Pontypridd United face historic 141 point deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontypridd United face historic 141 point deduction\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Pontypridd United face a total deduction of 141 points. <cite>BERTRAND LANGLOIS\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Welsh football team Pontypridd <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> face a historic 141-point deduction after fielding ineligible players and breaking players&#39; contracts, an independent panel has found. <\/p>\n<p>The Football Association of Wales (FAW) investigated the Cymru Premier team and the panel found them guilty of all 18 charges, including non-payment of players, breach of player contracts, failure to properly register players with the FAW and roster ineligible players.<\/p>\n<p>Pontypridd United have denied all accusations.<\/p>\n<p>The club has had six points deducted with immediate effect for offenses committed during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.  An additional penalty of 135 points is suspended but will be imposed if they field ineligible players before the end of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>The panel also added a two-window transfer ban, meaning the club cannot sign any players before January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The total deduction of 141 points would be by far the largest in football history, with Luton Town, AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio all suffering 30 penalty points.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League side Everton were stripped of 10 points for breaching financial rules in November.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#39;s six-point penalty means Pontypridd United are now bottom of the Championship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontypridd United face historic 141 point deduction\u060c Pontypridd United face a total deduction of 141 points. BERTRAND LANGLOIS\/AFP\/Getty Images Welsh football team Pontypridd United face a historic 141-point deduction after fielding ineligible players and breaking players&#39; contracts, an independent panel has found. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) investigated the Cymru Premier team and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6006,2283,997,3185,7583,29],"class_list":["post-14537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-deduction","tag-face","tag-historic","tag-point","tag-pontypridd","tag-united"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14539,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions\/14539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}