Steaua get racism stadium ban

BUCHAREST, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Steaua Bucharest have become the first club to be punished by UEFA with a stadium ban because of racist chanting by their fans after a Champions League match last month.


Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia, however, have escaped a ban for racist chanting during a Champions League match at their ground last month because of the 'improper conduct' of the target of the abuse, Liverpool's French striker Djibril Cisse.


Steaua were originally fined 16,500 euros ($20,460) after their fans made monkey noises at two black players playing for Irish club Shelbourne in a Champions League second qualifying round, second leg match in Bucharest.

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Excellent, fair play UEFA (And it's not often you can say that)

Interestingly though they didnt increase the ban for CSKA who Liverpool played. They took incitment by Cisse into consideration.

great news. That club is always linked with racism / fascism

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Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

Interestingly though they didnt increase the ban for CSKA who Liverpool played. They took incitment by Cisse into consideration.

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which means that its alright to racially abuse a player if he taunts you? a weird argument

What did Cisse do?

Thought the stadium ban was a flippin disgrace myself. UEFA needs to get the whole house in order before picking on small Eastern European clubs that won't make too much of a fuss. If they treat every club in Europe the same as Steaua (Which surely they should :confused: ) than you could find yourself with a lot of empty stadiums every weekend ;)

It'll be great if they're consistent for the rest of the season and ban all clubs whose fans racially abuse players.

Spanish and Italian clubs seemed to have a problem with this last year so maybe a few big names will have quiet stadiums for a few games this year.