UEFA have handed Jose Mourinho a four-game ban following his outburst towards referee Anthony Taylor during Roma’s defeat to Sevilla in last month’s Europa League final.
Mourinho confronted Taylor after they lost the match on penalties in the car park and labelled him a “f***ing disgrace.”
The English referee, 44, and his family were then attacked by a mob of angry fans while leaving Budapest airport the next day.
The ban means that Mourinho will miss the first four of Roma’s six Europa League group stage matches next season. In a statement issued on Wednesday, UEFA confirmed that their Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body had handed the Italian side a series of punishments, with Mourinho’s being for “directing abusive language at a match official.”
Roma have also been fined €50,000 (£43,000) and banned from selling tickets to their away supporters for their next Europa League trip due to “lighting of fireworks, throwing of objects, acts of damage and crowd disturbances.”
The club, which Mourinho has managed since the summer of 2021, have also been slapped with a €5,000 (£4,300) fine for the “improper conduct of the team” during their penalty shoutout defeat to Sevilla which saw their staff, players and substitutes shown a total of eight yellow cards.
A furious Mourinho was dismayed by Taylor’s widely-applauded performance during final in Budapest, saying in his post-match press conference: “It was an intense, vibrant game with a referee who seemed Spanish. It was yellow, yellow, yellow all the time.”
