{"id":518355,"date":"2026-10-02T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518355"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:07:01","slug":"manchester-city-confirm-appeal-against-guilty-verdict","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/manchester-city-confirm-appeal-against-guilty-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City confirm appeal against guilty verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man City have revealed that they have lodged an appeal after an independent commission found them guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the EPL\u2019s financial regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Etihad wrote that the commission&#8217;s ruling contained &#8220;clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>FA shared today that the verdict against the Sky Blues has &#8220;significant implications for the integrity of football&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The football governing body in England added that they will not comment further until things are resolved between them and Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City will claim that crucial sponsorship deals were funded by the Abu Dhabi government, rather than the side\u2019s owners, as part of the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The EPL claimed that the Sky Blues &#8220;systematically broke its rules for over 10 years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The rules state that the appeal must be heard within 3 months, and a decision must be made within a month of that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester City say they have lodged an appeal after being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2EfEQgpJH3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2EfEQgpJH3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSport\/status\/2105979774472683764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City have revealed that they have lodged an appeal after an independent commission found them guilty of all charges relating to breaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,17886],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues will appeal the guilty verdict against them.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518357,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518355\/revisions\/518357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518355"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518355"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}