#player-disciplinary-history

#player-disciplinary-history

Gianluca Prestianni has been given a six-game ban by UEFA for homophobic conduct during their Champions League knockout play-off match with Real Madrid in February.

"The NWSLPA is proud to join Project ACL, which brings together players, leagues and researchers to better understand ACL injuries. That understanding requires looking beyond the individual and examining the conditions players train and compete in each day. Project ACL is an opportunity to build the kind of player-centric evidence that can lead to meaningful changes across women's professional soccer."

Professional athletes cannot bet on their own sport, including games in their league, to prevent insider trading. This rule is strictly enforced across major leagues.

"There's still a long way to go until summer. When you arrive, you have to generate revenue to be able to make signings. I think Barça has a very good financial structure."

Working-class footballers lost hundreds of millions to financial mis-selling, but the V11 group is still being pursued for tax on money they never had.

Shabab Al Ahli's hopes of becoming champions of Asia had just come to an end in the penultimate stage of the tournament with a 1-0 loss, but they were adamant that tie should have been headed for extra-time after their 92nd-minute equaliser was disallowed.

The AFL appeals board overturned the tribunal's verdict based on an error of law through a miscarriage of justice, bringing to a close a farcical chapter that started with missing evidence and ended with barking dogs.

MAUschine was immediately escorted offstage following the assault and was subsequently issued a 10-year-long ban by event organizers DACH CS Masters. 'We do not tolerate physical assaults against other players at LAN and have acted accordingly,' DACH CS Masters announced.

Since yesterday's fixture against Brighton, which took place during the Premier League's No Room For Racism weekend, Kevin Danso has been, and continues to be, subject to significant and abhorrent racist abuse on social media.

The ongoing discussions regarding future structural changes to the game, such as the introduction of new tournaments (eg. Fifa Club World Cup), further intensify this challenge. These changes have the potential to significantly reduce the downtime available to elite players, affecting their recovery and overall well-being.

The ruling came from the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions following a lengthy enforcement review triggered by irregular betting patterns linked to several Aggies games during the 2024-25 season. Because investigators were unable to obtain key records or interviews, the committee said it could not determine whether actual wagering violations occurred. Even so, the refusal to participate in the investigation itself was treated as a major rules violation.

The sport-adjacent drama has been the real story of this year's Winter Olympics in Milan. Despite RTE's lacklustre Winter Olympics coverage, I have become completely enthralled in it. Not only by the sport but also for all the off-piste, behind-the-scenes, sport-adjacent drama. And by jove, there has been a cornucopia of it this year, from cheating confessions and allegations, to 'penisgate'.

The highest reported number of players sent off in a single football match is 36 in the Argentine Primera D game between Club Atletico Claypole and Victoriano Arenas refereed by Damian Rubino (Argentina) at the Estadio Rodolfo Capocasa, Claypole, Argentina, on 27 February 2011. All 18 players on each side (11 on-field players and seven substitutes) were sent off following what the referee described in his post-match report as a 'Generalised Brawl'.