BFA crestBARBADOS
FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION

Disciplinary Process

Understanding the BFA’s disciplinary authority and the measures available under its governing rules.

Disciplinary & Ethics Committee

The Disciplinary and Ethics Committee may pronounce the sanctions described in the BFA Statutes and the Disciplinary and Ethics Code.

Disciplinary measures

General measures

For natural and legal persons

WarningReprimandFineReturn of awards

Measures for individuals

Natural persons

  • Caution
  • Expulsion
  • Match suspension
  • Ban from dressing rooms and/or the substitutes’ bench
  • Ban from entering a stadium
  • Ban on taking part in any football-related activity
  • Social work
  • Compliance training

Measures for clubs & organisations

Legal persons

  • Transfer ban
  • Playing a match without spectators
  • Playing a match on neutral territory
  • Ban on playing in a particular stadium
  • Annulment of the result of a match
  • Expulsion from a competition
  • Forfeit
  • Deduction of points
  • Relegation to a lower division
  • Replaying a match