Chelsea striker Mihailo Mudric faces the longest ban in Premier League history after recently failing a drugs test and being provisionally suspended by the Football Association.
Joey Barton currently holds the record for the longest ban in Premier League history, with the FA finding the former midfielder in April 2017 guilty of playing the best of 1,260 games between March 2006 and May 2013. He was suspended for 18 months. He was later suspended, which was shortened to 13 months on appeal, but he still set a record.
Speaking of drugs, the record holder is Abel Xavier, who was banned for 18 months in November 2005 while a Middlesbrough player. A court referred to Arbitration for Sport to reduce his ban to one year after UEFA discovered he tested positive for anabolic steroids after a UEFA Cup match.
Mihailo Mudric faces four-year ban – the longest in Premier League history
However, Mudrick could be punished four times more severely than Xavier, with the maximum penalty being a four-year ban.
Ukrainians insist He “never knowingly used any banned substance” despite the FA finding the adverse result in a routine urine test. Mudric has missed Chelsea’s past four games as a result of the negative finding, and under FA rules players are informed of a positive test result and temporarily suspended until a decision on formal charges is made.
The formal charge depends heavily on the results of the “B” sample. When a player is tested, two samples are collected in separate containers – the “A” sample is used to conduct the initial test, and if the “A” sample comes back positive, the “B” sample is needed to verify the accuracy of the results .
If the “B” sample also tests positive, Mudrick could face The FA has a maximum ban of four years. In testing the “B” sample, Mudryk had the opportunity to provide an explanation for the initial positive result.
If Mudric does receive the maximum penalty, he will return to football at the age of 27 to 28 if the ban is issued after January 5 for the 2028/29 season. However, although there are still a few years left on his current contract with Chelsea until the summer of 2031, there is no guarantee that the Stamford Bridge hierarchy will keep him.
In fact, Juventus and Paul Pogba mutually agreed earlier this season to terminate his contract once the length of his ban was clarified, which is likely to happen between Chelsea and Mudric.
Although Mudrick could face a four-year ban, it would still not be the longest penalty in FA history. That’s because former Torquay United goalkeeper Olafur Gottskaksen disappeared after being selected to provide a sample in 2005, knowing his cocaine addiction would show up in the results.
A few months later, the FA banned Gottskarksen indefinitely from football matches, and he fled to Amsterdam and never returned. This lifetime ban exceeded the 300 points Enoch had received in 1915 for match-fixing. Years of ineligibility.
