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Chelsea have been fined £10m and handed a suspended transfer ban after admitting making £47m in secret payments to unregistered agents and third-parties over transfers between 2011 and 2018.
The club were also handed an immediate nine-month academy transfer ban and a £750,000 fine over the registration of academy players between 2019 and 2022.
The Premier League's report named a number of transfers related to the unregistered payments, including Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto'o, Willian, Ramires, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic.
The club accepted the historical charges, which occurred under Roman Abramovich's ownership.
The Premier League said "undisclosed payments by third parties associated with the club were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties" for the "benefit or Chelsea".
Chelsea self-reported the potential breaches after Todd Boehly's consortium acquired the club in 2022.
The club said: "From the outset of this process, the club has treated these matters with the utmost seriousness, providing full cooperation to all relevant regulators."
The Premier League said Chelsea would not have breached its Profitability and Sustainability rules during the applicable seasons, even if the payments had been registered and it therefore did not deem a points deduction to be an appropriate punishment.
In 2023, the Blues were fined £8.6m by Uefa for "submitting incomplete financial information" for the period between 2012 and 2019.
A separate FA disciplinary process investigating alleged "use of and the making of payments to unregistered agents" is ongoing.
Chelsea won two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one Champions League, one Europa League and one League Cup between the period of 2011-2018.
They employed six different permanent managers during the seven-year spell, though there is no suggestion that any head coach was part of the wrongdoing.
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