Aston Villa has been hit with a large fine on the opening day of the Premier League season.
The villains must pay £ 125,000 after violating a few-known Premier League rule for the fifth time.
It relates to the abuse of a system that is designed to keep competitions in the upper flight that flow freely.
They are now forbidden to use the Premier League multiball system for their first three home games of the season after five authorities to abuse it last season.
The fine of £ 125,000 means that they have now paid a total of a remarkable £ 305,000 for the starting of the rules since the start of the 2024-25 campaign.
A Premier League declaration was: 'The Premier League was a sanction agreement concluded with Aston Villa FC after the club had accepted that it had violated the Multiball rules of the Premier League.
The Multiball system was introduced for the first time in the 2022/23 season and is intended to maintain the electricity of league games, reduce delays and improve the fan experience.
Clubs are required to assume a multiball system at every competition match and compliance with the relevant rules and guidance is of vital importance to maintain consistency and, crucial, to ensure that home clubs do not achieve a competitive advantage due to their abuse of the system.
The accepted infringement was the fifth of the Multiball rules of the club during the 2024/25 season.
The club will pay a fine of £ 125,000 and the Multiball system will be forbidden to exploit in its first three home competition matches of the 2025/26 season. '
One of the violations that were cited in the 'sanction agreement' of the Premier League with Villa revealed on the eve of the new season, details their last home match against Tottenham Hotspur previous term when Unai Emery's side pursued the qualification of Champions League.
Villa was accused of helping them during the competition, including the positioning of extra young people and balls behind the goal they attacked, but not the one they defended. Villas players turned out to have handed them balls with them several times in the direct contradiction of the Multiball system, which was partially introduced to prevent a home team from getting a competitive advantage over the road team.
The official team, led by referee Peter Bankes, released his concern about the 'Multiball Supervisor' during the break. Villa won 2-0 to lift itself in the Champions League places before he finished sixth in the Premier League.
He marked their fifth infringement the victory of Spurs, so that the authorities would issue this ban, because they believe that the Baljongens and Girls were deliberately instructed to help their club.
For their coming matches against Newcastle, Crystal Palace and Fulham there will only be a system with one ball. When the ball goes out of the game and stays close to the field, the players have to pick it up for themselves to restart the game. If the ball cannot be picked up easily, it may be collected by the Ball Boys or Girls.