{"id":975,"date":"2025-08-13T07:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:35:04","slug":"netherlands-sanctions-lead-to-professional-football-club-being-barred-from-dutch-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/13\/netherlands-sanctions-lead-to-professional-football-club-being-barred-from-dutch-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands &#8211; sanctions lead to professional football club being barred from Dutch leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The professional football club Vitesse Arnhem has been barred from the Dutch football leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2024\/05\/13\/netherlands-investigation-as-to-whether-a-designated-person-owns-controls-football-club\/\">earlier post<\/a>, the Dutch authorities and the Dutch football league have been investigating allegations that Roman Abramovich owns or controls the football club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The football league determined, on the basis of various breaches of league rules, including the sanctions risks created by Mr Abramovich&#8217;s ownership or control of the club, to bar the club from participation in the Dutch second division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club sought to appeal that decision, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2025:4265&amp;showbutton=true&amp;keyword=Abramovich&amp;idx=1\">a published judgment<\/a>, the District Court in Midden-Nederland, has rejected that appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government&#8217;s investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professional football club Vitesse Arnhem has been barred from the Dutch football leagues. Further to our earlier post, the Dutch authorities and the Dutch football league have been investigating allegations that Roman Abramovich owns or controls the football club. The football league determined, on the basis of various breaches of league rules, including the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/08\/13\/netherlands-sanctions-lead-to-professional-football-club-being-barred-from-dutch-leagues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netherlands &#8211; sanctions lead to professional football club being barred from Dutch leagues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,2],"tags":[20,31,18],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-netherlands","tag-russia"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}