2023-05-17 19:32:40
Ivan Toney DARREN STAPLES / AFP
The Brentford player is suspended for eight months after an illegal sports betting case that took place between 2017 and 2021.
Premier League club Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been banned for eight months by the FA after admitting multiple breaches of sports betting regulations, the FA announced on Wednesday. “Ivan Toney has been suspended from all activity in and around football with immediate effect for eight months, until January 16, 2024 inclusive”, wrote the FA which specifies that the 27-year-old player will also have to pay a fine of 50,000 pounds. (57,000 euro)
Between February 2017 and January 2021, Toney admitted to having violated, on 232 occasions, the rule which prohibits any player from betting on football matches or even simply from passing information to others which would not be public, for betting. sportsmen. The sanction was decided by an independent commission after the player was heard.
The English international, who has nine minutes of play in the Three Lions jersey, in the last match of the qualifiers for the next Euro, against Ukraine, will be able to resume training with his club halfway through his suspension, or mid-September.
Third top scorer in the Premier League with 20 goals (including 6 penalties), Toney has the possibility of appealing, as does the federation if it considers the penalty insufficient.
Brentford, his club, 9th in the championship, also indicated in a press release to wait for the written reasons for the judgment which he will evaluate before “deciding on the next steps”.
In 2020, international full-back Kieran Trippier was suspended for ten weeks after four violations which he has always disputed in connection with his transfer to Atlético Madrid.
In 2018, Daniel Sturridge, former Liverpool international striker, was suspended for four months after transmitting information about a potential transfer in 2018 to relatives.
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