Decision whether Barcelona will be banned from the Champions League by June

UEFA ‘will decide whether Barcelona will be banned from the Champions League by June’ over alleged payments to ex-LaLiga referees chief… after president Aleksander Ceferin said the case was one of the most serious he had seen

UEFA are reportedly targeting a decision by June on whether Barcelona will be banned from next season’s Champions League, following the discovery that the club paid millions of dollars to companies linked to a Spanish refereeing official.

Barcelona have been charged with corruption by prosecutors over alleged payments made by the club to the then vice-president of the Spanish referees’ committee.

The club has been accused of maintaining a relationship with Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira in which ‘in exchange for money’ he carried out actions that would ‘lead to Barcelona being favoured in the decision making of the referees’.