Chelsea hit with £10.75m fine and suspended transfer ban by Premier League after disciplinary process concludes
Updated 16/03/2026 at 14:24 GMT
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The Premier League has confirmed that Chelsea will receive a £10.75 million fine and a suspended first-team transfer ban after a disciplinary process was carried out. The Blues self-reported historical transactions relating to transfers, including the likes of Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto'o, Willian, Ramires, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic.
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Chelsea have been hit with a £10.75 million fine and a suspended first-team transfer ban by the Premier League after a disciplinary process concluded.
In a statement, the Premier League said: "The Premier League has concluded two separate disciplinary processes involving Chelsea Football Club, following the club voluntarily self-reporting potential historical breaches of rules.
"Two sanction agreements have been ratified by an independent Commission under which Chelsea FC has accepted fines totalling £10.75 million for breaches of the Premier League’s rules relating to financial reporting, third party investment and youth development.
"The club has been sanctioned by the Premier League with an immediate nine-month academy transfer ban and a suspended one-year first-team player transfer ban (suspended for two years)."
The charges related to transfers between 2011 and 2018, including the signings of Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto'o, Willian, Ramires, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic.
The Premier League added: "These payments were not disclosed to the football regulatory authorities at the time, including the Premier League. The payments were made for the benefit of Chelsea FC and should have been treated as having been made by the club.
"The club has also accepted, among other things, that the making of these payments, as well as the failure to disclose them to the League, constituted a breach of the requirement to act in good faith towards the League."
Chelsea accepted the charges, which were self-reported, after Todd Boehly's consortium acquired the club in 2022.
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The club said: "From the outset of this process, the club has treated these matters with the utmost seriousness, providing full cooperation to all relevant regulators.
"The club welcomes the recognition from the Premier League of its ‘exceptional cooperation’ and that ‘without those voluntary disclosures and the act of self-reporting, a number of the Premier League rule breaches may never have come to the attention of the league’."
Chelsea were fined £10m by UEFA in 2023 after self-reporting historical transactions between 2012 and 2019.
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