Newcastle United have been fined a combined €6million (£5.2m, $6.8m) by UEFA and have entered into a stringent future compliance agreement after breaching the governing body’s Financial Sustainability Regulations (FSR).For the three-year period ending June 2025, Newcastle overspent relative to UEFA’s football earnings threshold, while they also exceeded their 70 per cent squad-cost ratio (SCR) across the calendar year of 2025, with their expenditure reaching closer to the 75-per-cent mark.UEFA has fined Newcastle €3m for the football-earnings overspend, plus a further €7m which is suspended pending future compliance, and another €3m for their SCR violation.While Newcastle appear pleased with the settlement, insisting they “worked closely and constructively” with UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) to “swiftly resolve the matter” — which involved senior figures, led by David Hopkinson, the chief executive, and Simon Capper, the chief financial officer, spending months in dialogue and face-to-face meetings with UEFA officials in Switzerland — this also underlines their issues when it comes to growing within the present financial regulations.Although Newcastle are adamant their squad will be strengthened this summer, Anthony Gordon was sold to Barcelona for €80m in part because of the club’s position relative to UEFA’s spending rules. Sandro Tonali is also expected to be sold, with Newcastle holding out for £100m for the midfielder, and that is largely to help offset the significant investment the club wants to make on new players to reinforce Eddie Howe’s squad.Moving forwards, given they have promised “full ongoing compliance” and are working within a strict spending plan they have agreed with UEFA, there will continue to be restrictions on Newcastle’s capacity to spend.There will be restrictions on Newcastle and Eddie Howe’s capacity to spend this summer. (Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)UEFA’s regulations are far more prohibitive than the Premier League’s own new SCR rules, which have a limit of 85 per cent expenditure relative to revenue, and Newcastle want to be within both limits given their desire to be European regulars.