Cymru Premier: Penybont docked further 30 points for fielding ineligible player
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Penybont FC were promoted to the Cymru Premier in 2019
Cymru Premier side Penybont have been deducted 30 points for fielding an ineligible player, six with immediate effect and 24 suspended.
The punishment follows the docking of three points for a similar offence earlier this season.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) imposed the new penalty at the same time as dismissing the club's appeal against the original sanction.
Penybont had been top of the Play-Off Conference with 29 points.
The Bridgend team now find themselves six points clear of the bottom two relegation places as a result of the deduction.
Penybont missed out a chance of making it to the Championship Conference when the initial three point penalty was imposed with one game remaining of phase one in January.
Rhys Griffiths' outfit were also fined £500, with £250 suspended until the end of the 2024-25 season for the first breach.
That came after an FAW committee charged the club for playing Eliot Richards in a fixture against Aberystwyth Town on 27 October while ineligible.
Subsequent breaches were then discovered on similar rules with another unnamed player and Penybont requested the new charges were expedited to be heard at the same time as the appeal against the original punishment.
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An FAW statement read: "On Thursday 15 February 2024, an Appeals Panel of the Football Association of Wales met to consider two appeals by Penybont FC against charges found proven by the FAW National League Board for breaches of Cymru Premier league rule 14.1 for fielding ineligible players.
"After carefully considering the written and verbal evidence submitted, the Panel decided that the appeal partially succeeded. Penybont FC shall be subject to a thirty (30) point deduction from its playing record in the JD Cymru Premier season for 2023/24.
"Six (6) points will be deducted with immediate effect, while the remaining twenty-four (24) points to be suspended until the end of the 2024/25 season which shall be implemented should they commit a similar breach."