Nothing to do: even the use of Cones of Taranto was rejected. Confirmed i four penalty pointsthe long journey of the playoffs will begin on Tuesday 7 May, against Latin.
The match will be played as a single match at the stadium Erasmo Iacovone. Kick-off at 8.30pm.
The penalty heavily affects the progress of the coach’s team Eziolino Capuano who without the -4 would have finished the championship in second place in the standings, with a privileged position in this complicated grid second phase which offers a place up for grabs series B. But the coach and his boys want to continue to be protagonists. The “official” ranking now says that Taranto has finished at fifth place and will have to face the tenth place in their group on Tuesday, Latina faced – and defeated – in the last match of regular season.
The sentence was issued this afternoon, Friday 3 May, by College of Guaranteea kind of “Court of Cassation” of Italian sport. The basis of the penalization – as can be seen from the reasons of the first instance sentence – is the fact that the club did not “provide, within the regulatory deadlines and, therefore, by 18 December 2023, the payment of the related Irpef withholdings to the two-month period September October 2023 for a total amount of €55,242.30 and the payment of the INPS contributions relating to the same two-month period for a total amount of €73,687.00”. The company then made the payment anyway.
As stated in a note from the Olympic Committee, “the First Section of the Board of Guarantee, following the hearing held today and chaired by Prof. Vito Branchrejected the appeal presented by Taranto Football Club 1927 Srl against Italian Football Federation (FIGC), as well as against the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of the FIGC, with notification also made to the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport at CONI, concerning the request for cancellation and/or reform, pursuant to articles. 54 and 62 of the CONI CGS, subject to precautionary suspension pursuant to art. 57, paragraph 2, letter. d), same Code, of the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal of the FIGC n. 0109/CFA/2023-2024, filed complete with reasons on 23 April 2024 and communicated to today’s petitioner on the same date, rejecting the complaint lodged by the aforementioned appellant against the decision of the National Federal Court, Disciplinary Section, no. 0177/TFN-SD-2023-2024 of 18 March 2024, which imposed, on the company Taranto FC 1927 Srl, the sanction of a 4-point penalty in the ranking, to be served during the current sports season. As a result, the contested decision was confirmed.”
Now the word returns to the playing field.
