Official: Brescia docked 4 points, Sampdoria and Salernitana in play-out | OneFootball

Massimo Cellino’s Brescia have officially been docked four Serie B points and are relegated to Serie C, while Salernitana and Sampdoria will face off in a play-out.

The news was expected after irregularities were found in the credit note worth €2.4m that Brescia put forward in February 2025 to cover the outstanding wages from November 2024, December 2024 and January 2025.

Brescia insisted that they were the victims of fraud, but the fact that the company which provided the coverage had only recently been created did not help their case.

The Federal National Tribunal announced this evening that Brescia have been docked four points for the 2024-25 season, plus another four points to be removed from their table in the 2025-26 campaign.

That means Brescia drop down the table to 18th place and are relegated to Serie C along with Cittadella and Cosenza.

Curiously, Cosenza were also docked four points over financial irregularities.

Brescia drop changes Serie B play-out

Sampdoria fans light a smoke-bomb prior to kick-off in the Coppa Italia match between Genoa CFC and UC Sampdoria at Luigi Ferraris Stadium on September 25, 2024 in Genoa, Italy. (Photo by Simone Arveda/Getty Images)

The relegation play-out was meant to be between Salernitana and Frosinone, but will now see Salernitana face Sampdoria instead, as these are the teams in 16th and 17th place.

That should start with the first leg on June 15.

It cannot be until then, because Brescia are expected to lodge an appeal with a hearing on June 12.

Lega Serie B

Brescia had complained that the irregularity took so long to spot, but the Covisoc (whose role it is to check the finances of clubs) had alerted the authorities on February 28.

It took a massive 77 days for the Government’s tax office to get back to them and confirm the credit note was faulty.

As part of the judgment, President Massimo Cellino (formerly in charge of Cagliari and Leeds United) and director Edoardo Cellino are also given a six-month ban.