Fenerbahce’s manager, José Mourinho, has been prohibited by four games and fined a total of £ 35,194 for comments made after Monday’s game with local Galatasaray rivals.
Galatasaray accused Mourinho of making racist statements after the Derby of Istanbul and, on Tuesday, Fenerbahce issued a statement saying that his comments were taken “completely taken out of context.”
The 0-0 draw was arbitrated by Slavko Vincic Sloveno after both clubs requested that a foreign official take over the party.
But the fourth official was the Turk and Mourinho repeated his criticisms to the Turkish referees during his press conference after the party.
The Portuguese coach, 62, said he went to the referee’s locker room after Monday’s game, telling the official room that “if you were a referee, this party would be a disaster.”
On Thursday, the Türkiye Football Federation confirmed that it would sanction Mourinho for two separate disciplinary issues.
The TFF said he would penalize him for “his derogatory and offensive statements towards the Turkish referee” and because “he accused Turkish football of chaos and disorder with insulting and offensive statements towards the Turkish football community and all the Turkish referees.”
The former chelsea chief, Manchester United and Tottenham has been expelled from the locker room and the shelter for two games and fined 117,000 Turkish lyre (£ 2,543).
Mourinho has also received another prohibition of two games for “an act against sportsmanship” during his press conference after the party and has been fined with £ 32,651.
His comments included him saying that “after the great immersion in the first minute and his bank jumping as monkeys at the top of the child … with a Turkish referee you would have a yellow card after a minute and after five minutes he would have to change [substitute] him”.
The TFF said that “the statements used for the members of the opposite team were contrary to the ethics of sport and the concept of clean play, they contained expressions that could foster violence and disorder in sports, were divisive and separatists in society and could cause incidents of fans.”