{"id":2154,"date":"2023-01-11T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2023-01-11T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:58:11","slug":"melbourne-victory-fined-nearly-500000-after-pitch-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Victory fined nearly $500,000 after pitch invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Victory football club has been fined A$450,000 ($NZ487,730) and had several sanctions imposed on it following last month&#8217;s violent pitch invasion that left a player injured.<\/p>\n<p>Victory\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/480986\/a-league-melbourne-derby-abandoned-after-crowd-invasion\">fans invaded the pitch<\/a>\u00a0during the A-League derby against Melbourne City, resulting in the match being abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fine, the club was handed a suspended 10-point deduction which will automatically be triggered by each and every incident of &#8220;serious supporter misconduct&#8221; over the remainder of this and the subsequent three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Victory have also been banned from selling tickets for the area of the ground from which the fans invaded the pitch and will not receive any allocated seating at away matches for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Football Australia (FA) calculates these sanctions will cost the club another $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be replayed in April starting from the 22nd minute, with City retaining the 1-0 lead they held when the fans invaded the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE -RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Victory football club has been fined A$450,000 ($NZ487,730) and had several sanctions imposed on it following last month&#8217;s violent pitch invasion that left a player injured. Victory\u00a0fans invaded the pitch\u00a0during the A-League derby against Melbourne City, resulting in the match being abandoned. In addition to the fine, the club was handed a suspended 10-point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}