The First Section of the Board of Guarantee chaired by professor lawyer Vito Branca has «declared inadmissible the appeal proposed on 8 May 2024 by the Football Club Forlì against Carpi Ac, the National Amateur League, the Interregional Department, the Italian Football Federation ( FIGC), of Lentigione Calcio, with notification also to Ravenna Football Club, Us Corticella and Victor San Marino, for the complete cancellation and/or reform, pursuant to articles. 54 and 62 CONI Sports Justice Code, of the decision of the National Sports Court of Appeal, III Section, at the FIGC, within the proceedings 0306/CSA/2023-2024, adopted on 29 April and communicated on the same date, with subsequent communication of the reasons took place on 3 May, with which, in rejecting Forlì’s complaint, the decision of the Lnd sports judge was confirmed, published in Official Press Release 124 of 23 April, with which the result of the Carpi match was validated. Forlì ended 2-1.” Forlì asked for the match to be won 0-3 by default due to the presence on the pitch of the defender Cecotti, who had served his one-day suspension weeks earlier against Pistoiese but who, since Pistoiese was subsequently excluded from the championship, Forlì claimed should serve out that day’s rest again in the first post-exclusion match. This is due to a misinterpretation by Forlì (and Ravenna who supported their red and white “cousins”) of Article 21 paragraph 4 of the Code of Sports Justice.
Also declared inadmissible were «any further prerequisite, connected and consequent acts, where existing, in any case detrimental to the interests of the appellant and not known to it, in any case connected and relating to the dispute of the play-off matches of the Serie A Championship D, Group D”.
Forlì will also have to pay 6 thousand euros while Ravenna, who had “embraced” the case, will have to pay 1,500 euros. In fact, at the end of the proceedings we read that the First Section «has ordered that the expenses following the defeat, settled in the amount of 4,500 euros, plus legal accessories, placed, at 1,500 each, with the obligation of solidarity, to be borne by Fc Forli and Ravenna Fc in favor of the resistant FIGC, LND and Carpi”.
An inevitable and highly anticipated blow across the board.
