The financially strapped Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia football record is facing expulsion from the continental club competitions by the European Football Union (UEFA).
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Sofia (Bulgaria) - The financially strapped Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia football record is facing expulsion from the continental club competitions by the European Football Union (UEFA). The National Federation of the AAIB said Wednesday. "The Chamber of Control of UEFA CSKA has set the deadline of September 30 to pay its debts," it said in BFU official statement. Succeed not, the club expect a three-year ban on the international level.
The debt of the 31-times champion amount estimated local media on the equivalent of more than 40 million euros. Thus runs the club in danger of being excluded for the second time in four years from European competitions. Already in the 2008/09 season CSKA was deleted from qualifying for the Champions League, because the license conditions could not be met.
Second in the preseason in Bulgaria CSKA had started this season in the Europa League qualifying, but there failed to Mura Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
Sofia was one of 23 clubs in Europe, against UEFA had for violations of the Financial Fair Play rules earlier this month for the first time levied sanctions. In the course of the match award was withheld for the UEFA competitions.
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Sofia (Bulgaria) - The financially strapped Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia football record is facing expulsion from the continental club competitions by the European Football Union (UEFA). The National Federation of the AAIB said Wednesday. "The Chamber of Control of UEFA CSKA has set the deadline of September 30 to pay its debts," it said in BFU official statement. Succeed not, the club expect a three-year ban on the international level.
The debt of the 31-times champion amount estimated local media on the equivalent of more than 40 million euros. Thus runs the club in danger of being excluded for the second time in four years from European competitions. Already in the 2008/09 season CSKA was deleted from qualifying for the Champions League, because the license conditions could not be met.
Second in the preseason in Bulgaria CSKA had started this season in the Europa League qualifying, but there failed to Mura Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
Sofia was one of 23 clubs in Europe, against UEFA had for violations of the Financial Fair Play rules earlier this month for the first time levied sanctions. In the course of the match award was withheld for the UEFA competitions.
