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Newcastle United hit with £7,500 fine after club features betting logo on shirts during youth team match

Daily Mail | April 10, 2018

Related Topics: Newcastle United F.C., Logo, Newcastle, New South Wales, Match, Gambling, Fine (penalty), Shirt, The Football Association, Premier League

Newcastle have been fined £7,500 after admitting to breaking the Football Association's rules on kit advertising, the governing body has announced.

The Premier League club have been punished for breaching regulations after their Under 18 side wore shirts with a betting company's logo on.

'Newcastle United have been fined £7,500 after the club admitted breaching The FA's Kit and Advertising Regulations,' the FA announced on its official website.

Betting website Fun88 have been Newcastle's main shirt sponsor since the start of the season
Betting website Fun88 have been Newcastle's main shirt sponsor since the start of the season

'Their under-18's team wore kit bearing the logo of a betting company, which is prohibited under FA rules.

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