Trabzonspor are the latest European club to be hit with a ban by UEFA after Manchester City in February.
UEFA released a statement on Wednesday positing that the Trabzon-based team had failed to meet the order of a 2016 settlement agreement which required them to be “break-even compliant”.
The Black Sea Storm are having a good 2019-2020 season as they currently sit at the top of the Turkish league table level on points with rivals Istanbul Basaksehir, but Huseyin Cimsir’s men have a superior goal difference.
The ban would only be applied if Trabzonspor qualify for European competitions in either of the next two seasons, but would not be implemented after that.
"On 5 July 2019, the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) Adjudicatory Chamber determined that Trabzonspor AŞ (TUR) failed to be break-even compliant as required by a settlement agreement, which it entered into on 20 May 2016 and sanctioned the club with a conditional exclusion from participating in one (1) UEFA club competition for which it would otherwise qualify in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons," UEFA said in a statement.
"The sanction would not take effect if the club fulfilled certain conditions, including meeting a target with respect to its financial results for the 2019 financial year.”
"The CFCB Adjudicatory Chamber has now determined that Trabzonspor AŞ failed to meet the target fixed for the 2019 financial year.”
"As a result, the CFCB Adjudicatory Chamber has ordered that the club be excluded from participating in one (1) UEFA club competition for which it would otherwise qualify in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons."
