SK Rapid is starting the new Admiral Bundesliga season without any negative points. On Tuesday, the Permanent Neutral Arbitration Court upheld the Viennese team’s appeal against the deduction of two points, which the league had imposed following the derby incidents at the beginning of March.
The Bundesliga penal senate severely punished Rapid after the insulting and partly homophobic outbursts following the derby against Austria on February 25 (3:0). Rapid was sanctioned, among other things, with an unconditional deduction of two points and a conditional deduction of one point.
The unconditional penalty has now been lifted, the conditional points deduction remains, as does the unconditional fine of 170,000 euros, against which Rapid had not appealed.
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