Bad news for SK Rapid!
As the Bundesliga announced on Tuesday, Senate 1 has sentenced the Hütteldorfers to a two-point deduction for the coming season, after which the Hütteldorfers will start the 2024/25 season with a mortgage of two points.
The Bundesliga is reacting to the sometimes serious misconduct of the Hütteldorfer fans and those responsible, which include the illegal lighting of pyrotechnics, violations of security at games and the use of discriminatory fan chants, and is therefore sanctioning Rapid with two minus points.
Austria was also fined
The protest committee thereby revokes the conditional deduction of one point from the end of February and announces a further unconditional deduction of one point.
In addition, the Criminal Senate slapped the Viennese with a fine of 60,000 euros, of which 20,000 euros were due to a structural change to a stadium gate.
The SK Rapid announced a protest with the announcement that it wanted to take further legal action. Until further notice, they do not want to make any further comment on this decision.
City rival Austria Vienna is also sentenced to a fine of 60,000 euros for illegal use of pyrotechnic material. The “Veilchen” had to start last season with three minus points due to a license violation. Now the people of Hütteldorf are threatened with a similar fate.
No new proceedings against Hedl and Grüll
In addition, Senate 1 also dealt with a newly surfaced video on Tuesday that shows, among others, goalkeeper Niklas Hedl and offensive player Marco Grüll loudly insulting the Favoriten district, home of city rivals Austria, with chants in the VIP club.
“The Senate has assessed the contents of the video according to the fact that the players Niklas Hedl, Marco Grüll and Thorsten Schick visible in the video are offenses that have already been admitted and were therefore dealt with and convicted in a trial that has taken place. This is against the players did not open new proceedings,” it said.
However, proceedings will probably be opened against assistant coach Daniel Seper. “He could not be seen on any of the videos known to date, so the facts of his case could not be assessed to date,” the league explained.
– Classified as a third major incident.
The deduction of one point, which was conditionally reviewed by the protest committee on February 29, 2024, is revoked and a further unconditional deduction of one point is announced. The deduction of a total of two points applies to the 2024/25 season.— Bundesliga (@OEFBL) March 12, 2024
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