Sevilla officially announced this Wednesday that it is forced to close two sectors of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán due to a sanction imposed more than six years ago. The punishment, to which the Competition Committee submitted him after a Copa del Rey match against Real Madrid on January 12, 2017, was the second leg of the round of 16 (3-3) after a 3-0 first leg . The Nervionense stadium went into anger towards an ex, Sergio Ramos, when he scored the third for Real Madrid from a Panenka-style penalty. The camero had also achieved 3-2.
Sevilla will fulfill the punishment against Celta de Vigo, in the League, on Friday, April 7. This is how the Nervionense club narrates the events:
“Sevilla FC, after exhausting all possible appeals, must comply with the closure sanction of sectors N11 and N12 for a match issued by the RFEF Competition Committee in the 2016-17 season, for “uttering insults and choral chants” in the Copa del Rey match played on January 12, 2017 against Real Madrid. In this way, these sectors of the lower tier of Gol Norte, located just behind the goal, will not host fans in the next league match in Nervión, next Good Friday against RC Celta. The club will return to the members who have the subscription in those sectors the amount that corresponds to a match, estimated at 15 euros.
The chronology of the sanction and the defense resources is as follows: After presenting allegations of said sanction to the Competition Committee itself and, subsequently, to the Appeals Committee in March 2017, the adoption of precautionary measures to suspend the sanction was initially accepted. requested by Sevilla FC to be able to defend themselves. In April 2017, the Appeals Committee ruled dismissing the appeal and annulled the precautionary suspension, so the club decided to appeal to the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD), which again granted the precautionary suspension and in April partially upheld the appeal. , although it maintained the sanction of partial closure.
The club went to the Contentious-Administrative Court, once again requesting a precautionary measure to suspend the sanction, which was admitted in July 2017. The Central Court ruled in September 2018, maintaining the partial closure sanction, but annulling the sanction pecuniary penalty of 6,001 euros, before which the club filed an appeal before the National Court, which dismissed it in March 2021, in turn reimposing the pecuniary penalty. The club filed, as a last resort, an appeal before the Supreme Court, which in February 2023 issued an order agreeing to the inadmissibility of said appeal.
In this way, the sole judge of the Competition Committee ordered Sevilla FC in writing to comply with the aforementioned sanction of partial closure of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán that affects sectors N11 and N12. The club will contact the subscribers of both sectors, about 600, to explain how the return will be made.
