Sheffield Wednesday ‘set for points deduction’ for failure pay players for 5 of last 7 months

Sheffield Wednesday are ‘set for points deduction’ for the failure to pay their players for 5 of the last 7 months.

The Owls have missed the deadline to pay all of their senior players before the end of September and will now face further sanction from the EFL.

While youth players and some administrative staff were paid, the majority of senior players were not.

This breach of EFL financial rules will lead to fresh charges and likely a points deduction in the future, as decided by an independent commission, given the club’s repeated violations.

Sheffield Wednesday look set for a points deduction after they missed the deadline to pay all of their senior players before the end of September ❌

It is the fifth month in the last seven where the wages have not been paid on time. pic.twitter.com/O0tLEdis2h

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) October 1, 2025

FIFTEEN POINT DEDUCTION?
That’s the possible sanction available to the #EFL with Sheffield Wednesday charged for failing to pay players on time FIVE months out of seven.

Sadly whatever deduction Chansiri remains & punishes the wrong people #swfchttps://t.co/tOmq9z4hEa

— Justin Allen (@justinallen1976) October 1, 2025

Football correspondent Rob Dorsett said while on Sky Sports: “Sheffield Wednesday haven’t paid their players. It’s the fifth time in seven months that that’s been the case so this is a pretty long rap sheet that Sheffield Wednesday have got now and of course today is the 1st of October.

“Whilst the wages are normally paid on Monday just gone, the club had until midnight last night in effect to pay all of the first team players or face further sanction for breaching the EFL’s financial rules.

“And my understanding is that whilst a lot of the junior players have been paid on time, the youth players have all been paid and some of the administrative staff at Hillsborough have been paid, the vast majority of the senior first team players have still not been paid.

“So Sheffield Wednesday have missed that deadline to pay their players on time and automatically they will now face sanction from the EFL.

“I reported yesterday that that almost automatically means they will get a points deduction at some point in the future.

“Why? Well, because they have a pretty long rap sheet now of charges against them. As I say, five months out of seven, they’ve failed to pay the players on time.

“So what is not the EFL that decide that punishment that will be an independent commission’s decision at some point in the future the they will now be charged a fresh by the EFL and because of that length and breadth of charges that are against them it’s pretty clear that i think they will get a points deduction at some point in the future.

Meanwhile, Justin Allen reports that Sheffield Wednesday faces a potential 15-point deduction witht he late payments breaching EFL financial rules.

He states that the case would go to an independent disciplinary commission, which could impose a three-point penalty per late payment.

Past cases, like Reading (one-point deduction) and Wigan (eight points), suggest a possible range, though the commission could opt for a harsher penalty.

The club, already under five transfer embargoes, cannot register new players until payments are cleared and is limited in signing free agents due to squad restrictions.

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Here’s how fans reacted Sheffield Wednesday get ‘set for a points deduction’ for failure pay players for 5 of the last 7 months…

@100percentapr: Sure slap a point deduction on the club, that’ll help. Why not take action against an owner who is clearly no longer ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ instead of punishing the club?

@swfccom: Take away the points. you’re just punishing us rather than helping us resolve the issue. We were given a -12 points deduction in 2020 & left us with the same owner/problem… 5 years later we’re in the exact same position. @EFL you lot are just as bad as him.

@BWFCAuctioneer: So the players graft to get a few points, don’t get paid and then get those points took off them 🤷🤦

@Ben020990: When will this stop owners like this being able to buy football clubs and run them into the ground like this?

@RyanMiller2011: I think at this point, an unfit chairman who is essentially destroying one of the oldest most treasured clubs (i have worked at Hillsborough) in the UK, should be made to sell the club at whatever price the governing body dictates. Pure greed and incompetence at the minute.

@capfc11: I don’t get what a points deduction achieves, surely that’s punishing the players, staff and fans!! The owner doesn’t care

@longlaneroyal: The @efl are useless/clueless! #readingfc weren’t relegated due to their opponents, poor players, a shite manager (but he was), not winning enough points from 46 games…no, relegated because the EFL stole six points! They’ll relegate #sheffwed because they don’t give a f**k!

@Tommy_E11: As a Sunderland fan Why do the poor Wednesday fans have to suffer? Disband chansiri from ownership and say to the fans pay £25 each a month to keep the club going while new ownership is found. He is an absolute disgrace to the fans, the club and ownership in general.

@wildy79: The frustrating thing with this is we haven’t got any directors, Mr Chansiri is the club. They should penalise these owners financially and not the players and the fans.

@benridley10: Dock us 50 points it makes no difference. Not going to make Chansiri suddenly care and pay the players

@zwildswfc: Points deduction does fuck all bar punish fans and players same again from those despicable cunts in the Efl do fuck all to prevent these things then punish those who aren’t getting paid or who are travelling the country to watch their team lose every week. Horrible bastards Efl