Sheffield Wednesday have been hit with an extra six-point deduction by the EFL, leaving them 27 factors from security within the Championship.
Former proprietor Dejphon Chansiri has additionally been handed a three-year ban from proudly owning or being a director of any EFL membership.
The ban pertains to failure to pay gamers in March, Might and June this yr, in addition to different non-payments to workers and HMRC.
The Owls had been initially deducted 12 factors in October after the membership went into administration. This newest ruling leaves them on minus 10 factors, and 27 behind Swansea in twenty first.
“The EFL can affirm that Sheffield Wednesday are to be deducted six factors with instant impact for a number of breaches of EFL Laws referring to fee obligations, with Mr Dejphon Chansiri prohibited from being an proprietor or director of any EFL Membership for a interval of three years,” an announcement on the Sheffield Wednesday web site stated.
“Whereas issues stay ongoing in respect of the problems being thought-about by the unbiased membership Monetary Reporting Unit, for alleged breaches within the 2025-26 season previous to the membership getting into administration, the league can affirm that it isn’t in search of any additional factors deductions from the membership.
“Individually, the EFL and Sheffield Wednesday stay in discussions relating to its attraction in opposition to the payment restriction, which is at present set to run till the tip of the winter 2027 switch window.
“That is prone to be resolved as a part of the membership’s exit from administration.”
Chansiri , a vastly unpopular determine at Hillsbrough, led a Thai-based consortium to accumulate the membership in 2015, together with his tenure ending once they entered administration.
Adminitrators are within the means of discovering a brand new purchaser for the four-time league winners, with ideas a sale might be accomplished by Friday.
