Overview
- On Wednesday, June 17, UEFA’s Instance de contrôle financier des clubs (ICFC) imposed a €10 million fine on Olympique de Marseille and handed the club a suspended exclusion from European competition that can be activated across the next three seasons if obligations are not met.
- The ICFC limited Marseille’s ability to register players on UEFA’s List A for the 2026–27 Europa League, a restriction that will constrain the club’s transfer plans and squad selection this summer.
- UEFA based the sanction on Marseille’s failure to meet the final targets of a 2022 transactional agreement and on breaches of rules tied to football-related revenues and personnel costs.
- OM acknowledged the ruling in a club statement, said it will work to comply, and retains the option to appeal to the ICFC Chamber of Appeal while facing a parallel review by France’s DNCG.
- UEFA explicitly took into account a sharp, unexpected fall in French domestic TV rights when calibrating the penalty, but the regulator still held Marseille accountable for very large recent losses that drove the enforcement action.