Juve, Lazio and Fiorentina relegated
Juventus, Lazio, and Fiorentina have been relegated from Serie A as
a result of the match-fixing scandal.
AC Milan have avoided relegation, but will start next season with a
15-point deficit, and have had 44 points taken from their tally for
the 2005-06 season.
Juventus have been stripped of their Serie A titles for each of the
last two seasons. They will start next campaign with a 30-point
deficit.
Fiorentina will start in Serie B with a 12-point deficit and Lazio
a seven-point deficit.
The rulings mean that none of the four clubs will be allowed to
play in Europe next season.
In addition to the punishments handed to the clubs, a number of the
individual directors were suspended.
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi has been suspended
from all football for five years.
Adriano Galliani, who was AC Milan vice-president, has been
suspended for one year.
The four clubs will have up to three days to appeal to the Federal
Court but a final verdict has to be announced before July 25, when
the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) must give UEFA, Europe's
football governing body, the list of teams that will compete in the
continental club competitions in the 2006/07 campaign.
The scandal was uncovered as a result of a criminal investigation
that was launched before the start of the 2004/05 campaign by the
Naples prosecutors' office.
Telephone conversations between Moggi and a referees supremo in
charge of the appointments of officials during the 2004/05 season
were tapped.
Prosecutors based their probe on hundreds of bugged telephone calls
between referee selectors, game officials and Moggi.
At the close of trading on Milan's stock exchange on Friday, Lazio
shares had dropped 9.68% to 0.28 euros while Juventus went down to
1.45 euros - a fall of 1.15%.
An estimated 500 Lazio fans protested outside Rome's Parco dei
Principi hotel as Federal Appeal Commission president Cesare
Ruperto read out the verdicts inside.
More than 300 Fiorentina fans met up outside the Artemio Franchi
stadium as a sign of protest but it was a different story in Turin
with few Juventus supporters turning up at the club's headquarters
in Via Galileo Ferraris.
30 points deficit? 
