Brentford's Ivan Toney banned for eight months by FA for betting offences

Brentford's Ivan Toney has been handed an eight-month ban by the Football Association for betting offences.

The forward has been suspended from all football and football-related activity after being charged by the FA in November for 262 alleged breaches of betting rules over a four-year period.

Toney will be banned until January 16 and has been fined £50,000 after he admitted to 232 of the alleged breaches.

He will not be allowed to train with his Brentford team-mates until September 17.

“Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, which runs up to and including 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s Betting Rules,” an FA statement read.

“The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in total between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021. The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232. “

An independent regulatory commission imposed Toney’s sanctions.

The one-cap England forward has scored 21 goals in 35 appearances for Brentford this season.

The FA statement continued: “His sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. He is permitted to return to training only with his club for the final four months of his suspension starting from 17 September 2023.

“The independent Regulatory Commission’s written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and The FA will wait to review them before commenting further.”

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