Massimo Cellino’s Brescia have formally been docked 4 Serie B factors and are relegated to Serie C, whereas Salernitana and Sampdoria will face off in a play-out.
The information was anticipated after irregularities have been discovered within the credit score observe value €2.4m that Brescia put ahead in February 2025 to cowl the excellent wages from November 2024, December 2024 and January 2025.
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, however the truth that the corporate which supplied the protection had solely lately been created didn’t assist their case.
that Brescia have been docked 4 factors for the 2024-25 season, plus one other 4 factors to be faraway from their desk within the 2025-26 marketing campaign.
Which means Brescia drop down the desk to 18th place and are relegated to Serie C together with Cittadella and Cosenza.
Curiously, Cosenza have been additionally docked 4 factors over monetary irregularities.
Brescia drop adjustments Serie B play-out
Sampdoria followers mild a smoke-bomb previous to kick-off within the Coppa Italia match between Genoa CFC and UC Sampdoria at Luigi Ferraris Stadium on September 25, 2024 in Genoa, Italy. (Picture by Simone Arveda/Getty Photos)
between Salernitana and Frosinone, however will now see Salernitana face Sampdoria as a substitute, as these are the groups in sixteenth and seventeenth place.
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That ought to begin with the primary leg on June 15.
It can’t be till then, as a result of Brescia are anticipated to lodge an attraction with a listening to on June 12.
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Brescia had complained that the irregularity took so lengthy to identify, however the Covisoc (whose position it’s to examine the funds of golf equipment) had alerted the authorities on February 28.
It took a large 77 days for the Authorities’s tax workplace to get again to them and ensure the credit score observe was defective.
As a part of the judgment, President Massimo Cellino (previously accountable for Cagliari and Leeds United) and director Edoardo Cellino are additionally given a six-month ban.