Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter Slapped With A 6-Year Ban

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been given a new ban of six years and eight months from football, the world governing body has announced.

The ban has been imposed for multiple breaches of FIFA’s ethics code and comes into force when a current suspension ends in October.

The adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee found Blatter in breach of rules concerning duty of loyalty, conflicts of interest and offering or accepting gifts or other benefits.

Blatter was initially banned for eight years in December 2015 over ethics breaches. That sanction was reduced to six years by FIFA’s appeals committee and upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The organization’s former Secretary General, Jerome Valcke was found to have breached those same ethics code articles, plus abuse of position. His original ban was 12 years, cut to 10 years on appeal.

Both men have been fined one million Swiss francs over the latest breaches, and same length of suspension, FIFA said.

The ruling is the latest in a long line of sanctions since the FIFA corruption scandal became public in 2015.

Former UEFA president Michel Platini, long expected to be Blatter’s successor, is also currently banned from all football activity until 2023.