FIFA Bans Barcelona from transfer market for 2-yrs after breaching transfer rules...........

La Liga titleholders Barcelona have been given a 14 month transfer ban by FIFA for breaking rules on signing international players under 18. In a move which also sees a fine of 450,000 Swiss Francs (£305,000) imposed for both the club and the Spanish Football Fderation (RFEF), the sanctions mean that the Catalan Club cannot buy or sell and players until the summer of 2015 after the football’s governing body imposed a transfer ban for the next two windows.
Following an investigation by the FIFA Transfer Matching System (FIFA TMS) over the past year, according to the governing body both parties “were found to have violated several provisions concerning the international transfer and first registration of non-Spanish minors with the club, as well as other relevant regulations with regard to the registration and participation of certain players in national competitions.”
In an explanation issued alongside news of the verdict from FIFA, Barcelona ‘were found to be in breach of art. 19 of the Regulations in the case of ten minor players and to have committed several other concurrent infringements in the context of other players, including under Annexe 2 of the Regulations.’ They were given a ‘period of 90 days in which to regularise the situation of all minor players concerned’ while RFEF ‘had also violated art. 19 of the Regulations and other provisions in the context of the transfer and first registration of certain minor players and ‘granted a period of one year in which to regularise their regulatory framework and existing system concerning the international transfer of minors in football.