The conclusion of the Serie B season has been thrown into chaos due to an investigation into financial irregularities at Brescia by the Italian football watchdog.
On Sunday, five days after the conclusion of the regulation season, Covisoc — Italian football’s supervisory body — informed the league of the investigation into Brescia, who could be levied with a four-point deduction if they are found to have breached the rules.
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That potential deduction, subject to an appeal which the club have pre-emptively confirmed, would relegate Brescia, hand a play-off reprieve to previously-relegated Sampdoria and confirm Frosinone’s safety above the play-off spot.
The league’s scheduled relegation play-off between Frosinone and Salernitana has been postponed amid the uncertainty and no teams or dates will be confirmed until a final legal decision is reached.
Around 700 Brescia fans protested on Monday against club chairman and former Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino, the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) and Serie B, leading to security being stepped up at the club’s training ground and headquarters as well as at Cellino’s house, per La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“Following the disturbing news reports that emerged today and the conclusion of the investigation conducted by the FIGC into alleged irregularities in payments,” a Brescia statement on Sunday read.
“Brescia announces that it will appeal to any sporting and non-sporting body to protect its position, believing that it has correctly complied with the federal deadlines.”
Brescia, who most recently played in Serie A in 2019-20, are subject to the potential points deduction over an irregularity in their payment of salaries and tax contributions in February.
Three teams are automatically relegated from Italy’s second division, with the 16th- and 17th-place sides contesting a play-off to avoid the final relegation spot to Serie C.
The regulation season, which ended on Tuesday, had seen Cosenza (30 points), Cittadella (39) and Sampdoria (41), the 1992 European Cup finalists, all automatically relegated, with Salernitana (42) going into the relegation play-off against Frosinone (43).
However, a potential points deduction for Brescia — who finished on the same points tally as Frosinone but above them in the standings courtesy of a superior goal difference — would put the club onto 39 points, meaning Sampdoria move into the play-off zone while Frosinone would be safe.
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Salernitana had been due to host Frosinone in the first leg of the play-off on Monday, May 19, with the return leg the following week but both matches have now been postponed amidst the uncertainty.
Sampdoria have never previously played outside the top two divisions of Italian football, with the Genoa-based club’s glory days coming in the early 1990s.
Sampdoria reached successive Cup Winners’ Cup finals in 1989 and 1990, the latter of which they won, while they were crowned Italian champions in 1991 and were defeated by Barcelona in the European Cup final at Wembley the following year.
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