Reading's Points Deduction: What Happened?
Rico Kuvalis
2025-05-21 18:10:41
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Reading have released their financial accounts for the 2022/23 Championship campaign, over a year after they were due. The Royals have been under financial restrictions for years due to their mismanagement under Dai Yongge, receiving transfer embargoes, business plans and points deductions for overspending. The club were hit with a six point deduction in April for failing to stick to the business plan, an ultimately fatal blow as the Royals were relegated by just five points.
Duane Hettinger
2025-05-21 17:01:26
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Reading have been deducted six points with immediate effect over a historical breach of the EFL’s profitability and sustainability limits. The sanction relates to Reading’s failure to meet an agreed budget after a breach of the financial rules in 2021. The initial breach carried a six-point penalty with a further six points suspended until this season. The independent club financial review panel determined Reading had not generated enough money from player sales and were relying on a proposed deal that had not been completed by a 1 March deadline to satisfy their commitments. Despite radical changes implemented at first-team level and right across the structure of the business to its very core – and a rigid adherence to a strict league-monitored wage structure and transfer embargo – the club accepts that it has not sufficiently satisfied certain elements of the planned budget.
Brionna DuBuque
2025-05-21 15:45:11
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The Club is now subject to a suspended three-point deduction with the sanction to be activated in either the 2023/2024 season or the 2024/2025 season if any fixture played in any EFL competition is postponed or abandoned due to disruption (including incursion onto the field of play) by the Club’s supporters. If it is required, the suspended three-point deduction will become active with immediate effect in the season during which the breach occurs. This level of sanction remains consistent with action taken in previous circumstances where an abandonment of an EFL fixture has taken place.
Electa Reichel
2025-05-21 14:46:40
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Reading have been hit with a further two-point deduction by the EFL for their failure to meet HMRC payment obligations.
Their latest penalty, which comes amid the continued ruinous ownership of Chinese businessman Dai Yongge, takes Reading's total number of deducted points to six for this campaign.
They have also been given a further suspended points penalty of two points, which will be activated if the club fails to pay amounts owed to HMRC, other clubs or any football creditor up until the end of the season.
It comes amid the ruinous ownership of the club under Chinese businessman Dai Yongge.
Blanca Toy
2025-05-21 13:16:21
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Reading football club has been given a three point suspended points deduction after their match against Port Vale was suspended earlier this month. Fans entered the pitch on 16 minutes and stayed there protesting over the ownership of Dai Yongge. Following a 16th minute pitch incursion by a number of Reading supporters in protest at the ownership of the Club, the players and coaching teams were removed from the pitch, and it soon became clear that re-starting would not be possible. The Club is now subject to a suspended three-point deduction with the sanction to be activated in either the 2023/2024 season or the 2024/2025 season if any fixture played in any EFL competition is postponed or abandoned due to disruption (including incursion onto the field of play) by the Club’s supporters. If it is required, the suspended three-point deduction will become active with immediate effect in the season during which the breach occurs.