Fa Will Not Appeal Against Paqueta Decision

The Football Association will not entreaty against nan determination to clear West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta of 4 spot-fixing charges.

An independent regulatory committee hearing, which took spot pursuing an FA investigation, found 4 charges to beryllium "not proven".

The written reasons detailing nan commission's uncovering were published connected Wednesday.

"The FA is committed to ensuring that nan integrity of shot is maintained, and afloat and thorough investigations will ever beryllium conducted into superior allegations of norm breaches," said English football's governing body., external

The FA started its investigation successful August 2023 and nan Brazil world was charged successful May past twelvemonth for allegedly getting booked deliberately "for nan improper intent of affecting nan betting market".

The 4 charges against him related to a Premier League crippled against Leicester City connected 12 November 2022, arsenic good arsenic 2023 fixtures against Aston Villa connected 12 March, Leeds United connected 21 May and Bournemouth connected 12 August.

Paqueta was besides charged pinch 2 counts of failing to co-operate pinch nan investigation aft breaching "FA Rule F3 successful respect of alleged failures to comply pursuant to FA Rule F2", which relates to providing accusation and documents.

He besides denied these charges, but nan regulatory committee recovered them to beryllium proven.

"The regulatory committee will determine an due punishment for nan breaches of FA Rule F3 that were recovered proven and nan specifications will beryllium published astatine nan earliest opportunity," added nan FA.

Paqueta joined nan Hammers from Lyon for an first £36.5m successful August 2022 and helped nan nine triumph nan Europa Conference League during his debut season.