Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney, an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Brentford and the England national team, has been banned from playing and fined for betting offences.
Ivan Toney has been banned from all football and football-related activity for eight months and fined £50,000 (N28,856,866) for breaching the English football’s governing body, Football Association (FA)’s betting rules.
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The Brentford striker’s suspension will start with immediate effect, meaning he will miss the club’s final two games of the season – at Tottenham on Saturday and at home against Manchester City on the final day.
A statement from the FA read: “Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, which runs up to and including 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s Betting Rules.
“The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in total between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021.
“The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232.
“His sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. He is permitted to return to training only with his club for the final four months of his suspension starting from 17 September 2023.
“The independent Regulatory Commission’s written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and The FA will wait to review them before commenting further.”
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See the statement below:
Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s Betting Rules.
Full statement:
— FA Spokesperson (@FAspokesperson) May 17, 2023
Reacting to the report, Brentford also released a statement, saying they were “awaiting the publication of the written reasons of the independent regulatory commission. We will review them before considering our next steps.”
