European football’s governing body said that Paris Saint-Germain, Inter Milan and Juventus are among the clubs fined by UEFA on Friday for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
Qatar-owned French champions PSG were given the most significant fine of 10 million euros ($10m), while Roma, AC Milan, Besiktas, Marseille and Monaco were also punished.
The fines were dished out after an analysis of the financial years from 2018 to 2022 by UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body found they had all failed to comply with the “break-even requirement”.
Roma must pay five million euros and Inter four million euros, while Juventus were fined 3.5 million euros and Milan two million euros.
Besiktas must pay 600,000 euros. The lowest fines went to Marseille and Monaco, who must pay 300,000 each.
However, UEFA said that clubs were only being asked to pay 15 per cent of the total agreed “financial contributions”.
Therefore, PSG’s fine could rise to 65 million euros if they fail to comply with the settlement reached with UEFA for the next three years, while Roma’s fine could reach 35 million euros.
Most clubs agreed to three-year settlement periods, but Roma and Inter chose four years to meet UEFA’s targets, so they cannot register new players for European competition this season.
“Under the three-year settlement agreement, clubs agree to comply with the football earning rule during the 2025/26 season,” UEFA said.
“They undertake to reach intermediate annual targets and to apply conditional financial and sporting measures should these targets not be met.”
UEFA announced earlier this year that it was phasing out its existing Financial Fair Play rules, which were introduced in 2010 and have allowed clubs to report losses of no more than 30 million euros over three years.
However, the 2020 and 2021 financial years have been assessed as one unified period due to the impact of the pandemic.
FFP is being replaced by new licensing and “sustainability” regulations, allowing clubs to report losses of 60 million euros over three years. The permitted figure can reach 90 million euros for a club “in good financial health”.
UEFA has targeted PSG in relation to FFP in the past. The club was cleared of wrongdoing in 2018 following an investigation triggered by them splashing out 400 million euros to buy Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in August 2017.
Before that, in 2014, PSG was fined 60 million euros for rule breaches, albeit two-thirds of that amount was suspended.
PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi, the influential European Club Association chairman, also sits on UEFA’s Executive Committee.
