FIFA Rejects FC Barcelona's Appeal On Transfer Ban....

FIFA Appeal Committee has rejected the ap­peals lodged by Spanish club, FC Barcelona and the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) and to confirm in their entirety the decisions rendered by the FIFA Disciplinary Com­mittee in the respective cases relating to the protec­tion of minors.

As such, FC Barcelona is to serve a transfer ban, which will see the club prevented from registering any players at both national and international level for two complete and consecutive transfer periods, starting with the next registration period, (January 2015) given that the appeal of the club had been granted suspensive effect by the chairman of the FIFA Appeal Committee.

FC Barcelona had also been ordered to pay a fine of CHF 450,000 and been given a period of 90 days from yesterday in which to regularise the situation of all mi­nor players concerned.

Meanwhile, the RFEF had been ordered to pay a fine of CHF 500,000 and granted a period of one year in which to regularise her regulatory framework and ex­isting system concerning the international transfer of minors in football.

The terms of the decisions taken by the FIFA Appeal Committee were communicated to FC Barcelona and the RFEF yestrday.