Marseille hit with fine and squad restrictions by UEFA for breaking financial rules

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/marseille/SblU3Hee/"]Marseille[/a] were one of ‌several clubs under a settlement agreement with UEFA's ‌Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), and needed to meet specific earnings targets.[/p][p]The 'list A' is a club's ‌main squad in a UEFA competition. ⁠They also have ‌a 'list B' comprising younger academy players. The ​manager can call up players from 'list B' on a match-by-match basis.[/p][p]The Ligue 1 ​club "failed to comply with the football earnings rule in the 2025/26 season (i.e. covering the ⁠reporting periods ending ​in 2023, 2024 and 2025)," UEFA said in a statement.[/p][p]If Marseille fail to comply with the football earnings target in 2026/27, they ‌will be banned from the next European competition they qualify for within the following three years, UEFA added.[/p][p]Marseille were fined six million euros ($6.95 million) and received an additional penalty of four million euros for breaching the "squad cost rule", which prohibits teams from spending over 70% of their total football revenue ‌on player and coach wages, transfers and ​agent fees.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/as-roma/zVqqL0ma/"]AS Roma[/a] were also fined two ‌million euros for breaching the squad cost rule.[/p][p]"[a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/ac-milan/8Sa8HInO/"]AC Milan[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/monaco/2PIvr8o4/"]AS Monaco[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/besiktas/IDmErJCR/"]Besiktas[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/inter/Iw7eKK25/"]Inter Milan[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/psg/CjhkPw0k/"]Paris Saint-Germain[/a], [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/antwerp/rVpPxw8H/"]Royal Antwerp[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/trabzonspor/MmsYDc03/"]Trabzonspor[/a] met the final target of the ⁠settlement... and therefore ⁠exited the settlement ‌regime," UEFA added.[/p]