Eintracht Frankfurt and Royal Antwerp hit with partial stadium closure by UEFA

rangeral

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The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) has announced the following decisions:

Match: UEFA Europa League play-off round second-leg match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Racing Club de Strasbourg (3:0), played on 29 August in Germany

Charges against Eintracht Frankfurt:
- Throwing of objects - Art. 16 (2) (b) (b) of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations
- Rough play/Insulting - player Ante Rebić - Art. 15 (1) (a) (ii) and (d) DR
- Abusive language at a match official - team official Bruno Hübner - Art. 15 (1) (b) DR
- Improper conduct of the team - Art. 15 (4) DR
- Stairways blocked – Art. 38 of the UEFA Safety & Security Regulations

Decision:
The Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body has decided:
- to fine Eintracht Frankfurt €20,000 and to order the partial closure of the Eintracht Frankfurt stadium (i.e. its sector 4c) during the next (1) UEFA competition match in which the German club would play as the host club, for the throwing of objects;
- to fine Eintracht Frankfurt €24,000 for the blocking of stairways;
- to suspend the Eintracht Frankfurt player Ante Rebić for five (5) UEFA competition matches for which he would be otherwise eligible, for serious rough play and insulting a match official;
- to suspend the Eintracht Frankfurt official Bruno Hübner for two (2) UEFA competition matches for which he would be otherwise participate, for abusive language at a match official;
- to warn Eintracht Frankfurt for the improper conduct of the team.

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Match: UEFA Europa League play-off second-leg match between Royal Antwerp and AZ Alkmaar (1-4), played on 29 August in Belgium

Charges against Royal Antwerp:
- Throwing of objects - Article 16 (2) of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations (DR)
- Setting off of fireworks - Art. 16 (2) DR
- Illicit banner - Art. 16 (2) DR
- Crowd disturbances - Art. 16 (2) DR
- Insulting / molesting acts – player Sinan Bolat - Art. 15 (1) (d) DR
- Improper conduct of the team - Art. 15 (4) DR
- Stairways blocked - Art. 38 of the UEFA Safety and Security Regulations

Decision:
The Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body has decided:
- to order a partial stadium closure of at least 5,000 seats in Tribune 1 of the Royal Antwerp FC Stadium during the next UEFA competition match in which Royal Antwerp FC would play as the host club. The Belgian club is ordered to display a banner with the wording “#EqualGame”, with the UEFA logo on it;
- to fine Royal Antwerp FC €46,250;
- to suspend Royal Antwerp FC player Sinan Bolat for three (3) UEFA competition matches for which he would otherwise be eligible, for insulting a match official.
 
So why are they being made to close part of their stadium for throwing object but Celtic weren't even punished for the same offence against Cluj?

Also have Legia even been sited yet for getting the game against us stopped?


Nothing regarding Legia
 
Can anyone report the throwing of objects or does it have to be in the official match observers report?
Also, does anyone know if UEFA have a list relating to the seriousness of offences? Pretty sure any sensible and reasonable organisation would have throwing objects just below attacking players on the pitch in terms of seriousness
 
Let's hope Eintracht and Antwerp go to town and cite the litany of misdemeanours perpetrated by the Yahoos as precedent to prove that partial closure is too excessive a sanction.
 
Are we not getting punished for Legia’s picture of JP2/ Ron Greenwood?

Seems only fair!
 
Now sure who is looking after Celtic at UEFA but looking through those charges and the amount of fines they’ve had in the last 10years you do have to wonder what they have to do before they face a similar punishment? They’ve been guilty of every single of those charges mentioned above

Absolutely.

Their latest and now customary pathetic €12,500 fine handed out again today

They certainly have someone on that committee looking out for them.
 
Absolutely.

Their latest and now customary pathetic €12,500 fine handed out again today

They certainly have someone on that committee looking out for them.

These clubs who are being fined should ask why the mentally challengeds get off so lightly even to the stage of ignoring objects being flung onto Cluj players and fighting in Stockholm.
 
Is there potential for us to be sactioned for the terrier being hit with a juice carton last night?
 
Blocking staircase seems a standard item.
We were warning our fans about this on Wednesday

Yep, a "catch all" charge and seems to be UEFAs equivalent of Breach Of The Peace. I notice it's added onto nearly every disciplinary case involving a club. I assume as it makes the charge sheet longer and it's then easier to justify a finding a club guilty and also easier to justify the draconian punishments.
 
The game is killing itself. Closing parts of stadiums and preventing fans from attending is crazy.

It should be done for a lot of things that seem to go unpunished or slap on the wrist fines.

How can monkey chants and missiles being thrown at players be punished less than us singing the words to the billy boys?

Madness.
 
And we have fans on an other thread loving the fact that the fan that got lifted that was pelted with stuff
Ceptic fans threw at least 3 objects at Cluj players (sportsmen) and they didn't look like paper cups to me.
Compare that to throwing drinks cups at a hooligan, who is passing directly in front of the support, being marched out the stadium and arrested for his bad behaviour.
 
UEFA should get to fxxk.
Eufa's decisions are baffling it is certainly NOT a level playing field given the stuff that the mhanks have done and keep getting shitey wee fines, something stinks big time and it reeks of corruption.
 
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