The Italian FA announced Chievo's punishment on ThursdaySerie A club Chievo have been deducted three points and fined €200,000 (£180,000) by the Italian FA (FIGC) for false accounting. The FIGC's sports tribunal found Chievo guilty of adding around €27m to the real transfer fees of young players from Italian lower-league club Cesena between 2015 and 2018. Club president Luca Campedelli has been banned for three months with four advisors also suspended for six weeks. The Verona club had been accused of using their player dealings with Cesena to create a false profit for both clubs and allow them to satisfy the conditions for registering in their respective divisions. Chievo finished 13th in Serie A last season and are bottom of the table this season with one point from three games.

Source: Sky sports September 13, 2018 17:48 UTC