Barcelona reduce UEFA fine from 60 million to 15 million

Barcelona is once again paying attention to its economic folders. This time, according to ‘Mundo Deportivo’, it knows that it will have to pay a fine from UEFA, although it can take it almost as a victory. In the summer of the 2022-23 season, Joan Laporta's famous financial levers served to save the accounts through the sale of television broadcasting rights. La Liga considered the method valid, but the international body did not see it in the same light.

UEFA understood it as profits from losses of intangible assets and not as operational income, according to the Catalan side version. In 2024, it decided to sanction Barca with half a million euros. Now, it has wanted to maintain its position and re-impose a much larger fine of 60 million euros.

Joan Laporta approached Aleksandr Ceferin to try to explain that Barcelona, in extreme situations, cannot make capital increases as it is not a SAD, as can happen in other clubs with similar problems. He added the advantage of the validity that LaLiga has given him over the years through this channel. Finally, UEFA reduced the fine to 15 million, as long as Barca comply with the rules of the Financial Fair Play in Europe and Spain.

If not, it would have to face this blunt punishment of 60 million euros. 'MD' adds that those 15 million to be paid should not imply a change in the economic planning, since they would count as extraordinary expenses in the absence of knowing how the UEFA sanction is reduced.