Club Punishments
On 4 July 2006, the Italian Football Federation's prosecutor, Stefano Palazzi, called for all four clubs at the centre of the match fixing scandal to be thrown out of Serie A. Palazzi called for Juventus to drop to at least Serie C1 (his statement read that Juventus should be sent "lower than Serie B," without a specific division stated) and for Fiorentina and Lazio to at least Serie B. He also asked for points penalties to be imposed (six for Juventus, three for Milan, and 15 for both Fiorentina and Lazio). The prosecutor also called for Juventus to be stripped of its 2005 and 2006 titles.
In the case against Reggina on 13 August, the prosecutor called for Reggina to be demoted to Serie B with a 15-point penalty. On 17 August, Reggina's punishment was handed down: a 15-point penalty, but no relegation from Serie A. Furthermore, the club was fined the equivalent of £68,000, whilst the club president Pasquale "Lillo" Foti was fined £20,000 and banned from the game for two-and-a-half years.
| Team | Relegation | Points deductions (2006–07 season) |
Other punishments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original punishment | Appeal result | Final punishment | Original punishment | Appeal result | Final punishment | Original punishment | Final punishment | |
| Milan | Relegated to Serie B | None | None | Deducted 15 points | Deducted 8 points | Deducted 8 points | • Deducted 44 points 2005/06 season • Out of 2006-07 UEFA Champions League |
• Deducted 30 points 2005/06 season • One home game behind closed doors. |
| Fiorentina | Relegated to Serie B | None | None | Deducted 12 points (Serie B) |
Deducted 19 points (Serie A) |
Deducted 15 points (Serie A) |
• Out of 2006–07 UEFA Champions League | • Out of 2006–07 UEFA Champions League • Two home games behind closed doors |
| Juventus | Relegated to Serie C1 | Relegated to Serie B | Relegated to Serie B | Deducted 30 points | Deducted 17 points | Deducted 9 points | • £31,000,000 (equivalent) fine • Club president fined £200,000 (equivalent) |
• Stripped of 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles • Out of 2006–07 UEFA Champions League • Three home games behind closed doors • Relegated to Serie B. |
| Lazio | Relegated to Serie B | None | None | Deducted 7 points (Serie B) | Deducted 11 points (Serie A) | Deducted 3 points (Serie A) | • Out of 2006-07 UEFA Cup | • Out of 2006–07 UEFA Cup • Two home games behind closed doors |
| Reggina | (No original punishment) | None | None | Deducted 15 points | (No appeal result) | Deducted 11 points | (No original punishment) | • £68,000 (equivalent) fine • Club president Pasquale Foti fined £20,000 (equivalent) and banned from football for 2½ years |
The sentence was long disputed because of the largely different severity of punishment between Juventus and other involved teams. According to the court the conduct of team managers, considered in all the cases not a real match-fixing but a mere violation of sport loyalty principles, seemed to have, in case of Juventus, the effect to influence match results; whilst in the case of other teams, the same effect was not considered so much evident. Juventus representatives considered this assumption totally arbitrary and never proved.
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