Leicester Tigers have paid an 'over-run tax' from Premiership Rugby relating to a breach of salary cap regulations during the 2019-20 season, it has been announced.
Leicester Tigers have paid an ‘over-run tax’ from Premiership Rugby relating to a breach of salary cap regulations during the 2019-20 season, it has been announced.The Tigers were previously fined almost £310 000 two years ago — in what Premiership Rugby said was a separate matter from the latest development.
It was discovered then that Leicester had arranged for a third-party company to make payments to the image rights companies of Tigers players. Saracens were relegated from the Premiership for salary cap breaches at the end of the 2019-20 campaign, having previously been fined more than £5 million and docked 35 Premiership points for exceeding the cap in the previous three seasons.Premiership Rugby, commenting on Leicester’s latest infraction of the rules, said: “These payments relate to salary during the Covid-19 period, which had not been included in the club’s certification for the 2019-20 salary cap year.
Leicester chief executive Andrea Pinchen said: “While disappointed to again have historic salary cap spending relating to 2019/20 season result in this over-run tax, as was the case in March 2022, we accept the findings of Premiership Rugby.”
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