{"id":251481,"date":"2025-07-09T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251481\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:55:09","slug":"carlo-ancelotti-sentenced-to-prison-in-spain-over-tax-fraud-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251481\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Ancelotti sentenced to prison in Spain over tax fraud | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ancelotti, one of the most successful managers in football history, received a one-year suspended sentence and large fine.<\/p>\n

A Spanish court sentenced Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti to a one-year suspended prison term for tax fraud when he was Real Madrid manager in 2014.<\/p>\n

The Madrid court also fined Ancelotti 386,000 euros ($452,187) during Wednesday\u2019s proceedings.<\/p>\n

Spanish prosecutors accused Ancelotti of defrauding the state of 1 million euros ($1m) in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n

State prosecutors sought a prison sentence of up to four years and nine months on two counts of tax fraud.<\/p>\n

But the former Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain boss, who no longer lives in Spain, will not serve jail time because the sentence is less than two years and he has no criminal record. In Spain, a judge has the discretion to suspend a sentence of less than two years for first-time offenders.<\/p>\n

In March 2024, prosecutors accused Ancelotti of having used shell companies to hide his true earnings. They claimed Ancelotti, for example, used one company that lacked \u201cany real [economic] activity\u201d in the Virgin Islands as part of an alleged scheme.<\/p>\n

Carlos Sanchez, Ancelotti\u2019s press officer, told The Associated Press that the coach \u201cwill not make comments for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s football confederation (CBF) said in a statement that it was following the case.<\/p>\n

The Italian coach is the latest in a string of major football profiles to face a crackdown by Spanish authorities over unpaid taxes, although none have actually been sent to prison so far. That list includes star players Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Jose Mourinho, another former Madrid coach.<\/p>\n

The CBF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Ancelotti, who turned 66 last month, is one of football\u2019s most successful coaches. He is the only coach to have won the Champions League five times, three with Madrid and twice with AC Milan, and the only coach to have won domestic league titles in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.<\/p>\n

The former Italy midfielder left Real Madrid to become Brazil boss at the end of last season after a rare trophy-less campaign in the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

\"SoccerAncelotti, right, was the head coach at Real Madrid until two months ago when he departed to coach Brazil\u2019s national side before the 2026 FIFA World Cup [Susana Vera\/Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ancelotti, one of the most successful managers in football history, received a one-year suspended sentence and large fine.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,94,12,104,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-251481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114824801544146961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}