It’s no secret that UEFA has been neither fan nor friend to Juventus lately.
Most recently, they conducted an assessment of the teams taking part in their European competitions in 2025-26 and found Juventus, among others, were not compliant with the rules regarding financial sustainability. Corriere dello Sport has reported that Juventus were judged to have exceeded the maximum €60 million deficit across three financial years from 2023 to 2025.
This has led to the club entering into a Settlement Agreement with UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), spanning from the current season until the 2027-28 season, conditionally. Juventus will pay a €6 million fine initially, with the potential for more if they don’t comply with the agreed to terms.
The official statement released by the club on Tuesday is as follows:
Turin, 30 June 2026 – Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (“Juventus” or the “Company”), following the information provided in the Half-Year Financial Report as at 31 December 2025, announces that it entered into a Settlement Agreement with the First Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (“UEFA CFCB”) – with a three-year duration, until financial year 2027/28 – in relation to the breach of the UEFA Football Earnings Rule for the three-year period 2022/23 – 2024/25.
The Settlement Agreement, whose terms are substantially in line with those anticipated by the Company and with those ordinarily applied by UEFA, also during the current financial year, to other clubs, provides in summary for:
- The payment of an “unconditional” amount of EUR 6.0 million, which shall be entirely charged to the income statement in financial year 2025/26;
- The potential payment of additional “conditional” amounts, up to a maximum of EUR 14 million, only in case the Company fails to comply with the financial targets agreed with UEFA for the current financial year and the next 2 financial years; the Company estimates – based on current projections – that it will be able to comply with such targets with adequate margin and, therefore, that it will not incur such costs in the future;
- Standard sporting limitations consisting of the requirement to comply with certain restrictions on the aggregate costs of players included in the so-called List A for UEFA purposes, as well as additional sporting sanctions in case of significant breach of the financial and sporting targets agreed with UEFA.
The amounts paid by the Company (or withheld by UEFA) will not be considered as relevant costs for the purpose of assessing Juventus’ compliance with the stability requirements set out in the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Sustainability Regulations.
In the event of compliance with the financial targets on an aggregate basis for the three financial year 2024/25 – 2026/27, the Company will be able to exit early from the regime set forth by the Settlement Agreement (so-called early exit).
It is also noted that Juventus complied with the UEFA Squad Cost Ratio requirement as at 31 December 2025, as was the case at 31 December 2024.
In layman’s terms, despite falling within the squad cost ratio at the half-year mark in 2024 and 2025, it appears that for the entire three-year period starting in 2022-23, they overspent the aggregate €60 million limit. Therefore, they will be required to pay one-tenth of that sum outright as part of the 2025-26 financial year, and if they overstep again before the end of the agreement, they will incur further penalties, up to a maximum of €14 million.
That said, there is some reason for optimism, as the Juve brass seem to find their current projections to be within the bounds of this agreement. On top of that, if the club maintains compliance – again on a three-year aggregate basis – between now and the end of the 2026-27 financial year, they will be released early from the Settlement Agreement and remove the proverbial sword of Damocles from over their metaphorical heads.
With any luck, the successful fulfillment of this settlement will conclude what has often felt like a years-long grudge on behalf of the European body towards Juventus for its part in the failed Super League project.
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