Only a provisional ban at the moment, they've still got a year to sort themselves out.

 

 

Malaga and five other European clubs have been banned from UEFA competitions for as many as three seasons from 2013/14 in the first repercussions of Financial Fair Play.

The Liga side, who face Porto in the last-16 of this season’s Champions League tournament, have been provisionally excluded from three years of European football unless they can prove they have settled all financial issues by March 31 2013.

 

Croatian clubs Hajduk Split and NK Osijek, Romanian sides Rapid Bucharest and Dinamo Bucharest and Serbian outfit FK Partizan have also received the same suspension, plus a fine of €100,000 each (€300,000 for Malaga, €80,000 for Split).

Partizan’s domestic rivals FK Vojvodina were fined €10,000 with no suspension and Ukraine’s Arsenal Kiev also received only a fine, to the sum of €75,000.

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The start of a new era for Europe's elite, or will provisional bans become part and parcel of the game, with the clubs on the receiving end all getting their houses in order anyway thus rendering the sanctions moot?

Edited December 21, 201213 yr by Lofty 1905

Nothing to worry about. Malaga are a complete mess financially and don't have television money or lucrative sponsorship to fall back on. FFP has teeth for clubs like that, but we're not in any danger. With that said, this may still affect us. After all, there's another Spanish club that are in a bit of a rut financially and they have a pretty good striker, or so I've heard. 

I wonder if they will start looking into Barca's and Madrid's endless debt. Probably not.

Three months, not a year for Malaga.

You are correct, my mistake.

Nothing to worry about. Malaga are a complete mess financially and don't have television money or lucrative sponsorship to fall back on. FFP has teeth for clubs like that, but we're not in any danger. With that said, this may still affect us. After all, there's another Spanish club that are in a bit of a rut financially and they have a pretty good striker, or so I've heard. 

Post of the year!

the bit that makes me laugh is the 250,000 fine malaga get, How the f**k does that help them ? surely the ban is enough ? just more money in FIFA's pocked for their first class flights around the globe

You have no money, give us some money

 

It is nice and logical

the bit that makes me laugh is the 250,000 fine malaga get, How the f**k does that help them ? surely the ban is enough ? just more money in FIFA's pocked for their first class flights around the globe

 

And they will lose money from euro competition + tv rights from euro competition.

And they will lose money from euro competition + tv rights from euro competition.

 

Well that's their own fault. They shouldn't spend more than they can afford.

It's not Real/Barca's debt that UEFA need to concern themselves with, it's their anti-competitive behaviour by monopolising TV revenue.

 

The problem with these smaller clubs is that they have virtually zero assets outside of players and unlike EPL, they have next to no cashflow either.

 

Real, Barcelona, Man United and ourselves can "afford" our debt because it's serviceable. We have massive assets (a tract of land in West London for starters i.e one of the most iconic and expensive areas in the world) and we have excellent revenue streams. Malaga have neither.

 

FFP kills any chance of a club like Malaga dining at the top table because their wealthy owner is prevented from making up the shortfall in cashflow to keep the club running in the short term.

 

If I owned a local corner chippy which was doing alright but suddenly I stumbled upon my grandma's recipe for the Best Chips Ever. I knew it was big and I could turn my local shop into a national franchise, but I needed some extra cash to cover the running costs in the meantime. UEFA would say it's wrong of me to take out a loan to cover those short-term needs and so prevent me from ever expanding my local chippy. 

Out is this going to help level the playing field for lower clubs? How is this going to help Hajduk and Partizan who have enough issues on their own financially without UEFA butting in? This is just a way to take lower end teams from Europe and make an example out of them, which will not help anyone in the end. Why aren't they going after the debt ridden Spanish Duo, or Italian clubs.

Out is this going to help level the playing field for lower clubs? How is this going to help Hajduk and Partizan who have enough issues on their own financially without UEFA butting in? This is just a way to take lower end teams from Europe and make an example out of them, which will not help anyone in the end. Why aren't they going after the debt ridden Spanish Duo, or Italian clubs.

 

Because the debt-ridden Spanish and English clubs have a high enough turnover that they can service their debt. Atletico, Malaga etc. can't.

 

It has never been the intention of FFP to 'level the playing field', if it was, the then-G14 would never have accepted it and we'd be playing in the breakaway Sony-Heineken European Challenge Cup of Winners League.