Man City guilty of all serious financial breach charges: Premier League

Manchester City say they are ‘disappointed and surprised’ by the verdict and will appeal.Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026Manchester City have been found guilty of ⁠all charges ⁠of serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules between the 2009/10 and 2017/18 seasons, the league has said in ⁠a statement.City were charged in February 2023 with breaches of the league’s financial rules spanning nine seasons following ⁠a four-year investigation.The club said in a statement it would appeal “on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe”.An independent commission found that City “arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which ‌misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners,” the league said on Tuesday.The league added that the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than 900 million pounds during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules.”“The ⁠core decision … details how the club systematically ⁠broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade,” said Richard Masters, the chief executive of th...