Sheffield’s season was thrown into additional turmoil on Wednesday after the EFL introduced a brand new six-point penalty for golf equipment on Monday.
The penalty, linked to historic breaches of cost obligations beneath earlier proprietor Digifone Chansiri, left the Owls on the backside of the Championship desk with minus-10 factors and successfully sealed the destiny of the 2025/26 season.
The most recent sanction is one more catastrophe for the South Yorkshire membership, which was already reeling from the automated 12-point penalty imposed in October after the regime took workplace.
The overall variety of penalty factors now stands at 18, with the EFL confirming in a press release that the extra penalties had been on account of “a number of regulatory breaches concerning cost obligations”.
These breaches particularly cite the failure to pay participant and workers salaries on time in March, Could and June 2025, in addition to the failure to make funds to HMRC.
The present regime, led by Begbie Traynor, are attempting to stabilize the membership and discover a new purchaser, however the legacy of the earlier regime continues to hang-out Hillsborough.
As a part of the ruling, controversial former proprietor Digiphone Chansiri was handed a three-year ban from working as an proprietor or director of an EFL membership.
For coach Henrik Pedersen, the information is a devastating blow to morale. Regardless of a 2-0 win over Portsmouth in September, the group has struggled to discover a rhythm amid off-field chaos.
The EFL has stated it’s not calling for additional factors deductions this season, however for followers who noticed their historic membership report unfavorable factors in December, the injury has already been performed.
Monetary guidelines tightened throughout English soccer
Sheffield Wednesday should not the one membership to have suffered the wrath of supervisors lately.
English soccer is more and more outlined by strict guidelines concerning monetary sustainability, with a number of high-profile groups going through comparable sanctions.
Most notably, Everton and Nottingham Forest turned the primary Premier League golf equipment to obtain level deductions for breaching the Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) within the 2023-24 season, setting a precedent for monetary mismanagement to be punished on the pitch.
Within the EFL, Derby County famously suffered a complete penalty of 21 factors within the 2021/22 season on account of administrative and accounting irregularities, which finally resulted in Wayne Rooney’s aspect being relegated regardless of a valiant struggle.
Studying additionally confronted a number of penalty factors totaling 18 factors over three seasons for breaching agreed enterprise plans and failing to pay wages.
Wednesday followers may also be reminded of their historical past. The membership beforehand began the 2020/21 season with a 12-point penalty (later lowered to 6) for breaching spending laws, which contributed to their relegation from Ligue 1 that 12 months.
Historical past appears to be repeating itself in its cruellest kind in Hillsboro.
