Premier League champions, Manchester City are set to be
handed one-year ban from Champions League by UEFA.
An investigation into accusations that Manchester City
misled European soccer’s financial regulators in pursuit of its success on the
field is expected to recommend that the team be barred from the Champions
League, European soccer’s richest competition.
According to New York Times, English soccer authorities and
officials at UEFA, European soccer’s governing body and the organizer of the
Champions League, have for months been investigating Manchester City amid
allegations of rule-breaking revealed in damaging leaks over much of the past
year.
Members of the investigatory chamber of UEFA’s financial
control board, a group set up to analyze the accounts of clubs suspected of
breaking strict cost-control regulations, met two weeks ago in Nyon,
Switzerland, to finalize their conclusions.
Yves Leterme, the investigatory panel’s leader and the
former prime minister of Belgium will have the final say on the submission to a
separate adjudicatory chamber, which could be filed as soon as this week. The
body is expected to seek at least a one-season ban.
