Disciplinary Updates

Notice of Complaint | Rocky Bushiri Kisonga, Player, Hibernian FC

Alleged Party in Breach: Rocky Bushiri Kisonga, Player, Hibernian FC

Date: Wednesday 20 July 2022

Competition: Scottish League Cup

Match: Hibernian FC v Greenock Morton FC

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 208. No player or member of Team Staff shall breach a suspension and no club or Football Academy shall allow a player or member of Team Staff to breach a suspension. 

Hearing date: Thursday 11 August 2022

Outcome: Acceptance of the offer to re-impose one-match Scottish League Cup suspension. 

Fast Track Notice of Complaint | Daniel Devine, player, Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC

Player: Daniel Devine

Match: Arbroath FC v Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC

Date: Friday 13th May 2022

Competition: Premiership Play-Off.

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: A4 – Denying the opposing team or an opponent a goal or an obvious goal scoring opportunity as defined by Law 12.

Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Wednesday 18 May 2022. 

Outcome: Claim Dismissed. The original sanction is imposed with immediate effect. £250 fee forfeited, to be paid within 30 days. 

Fast Track Notice of Complaint | Max Stryjek, player, Livingston FC

Player: Max Stryjek

Match: Aberdeen FC v Livingston FC

Date: Saturday 23rd April 2022

Competition: Scottish Premiership

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 200: Where it is established that a player has committed any one or more of the following sending off offences during a match:

(A1) Serious foul play (as described from time to time in the Laws of the Game), but only where the acts and/or omissions constituting the sending off offence:
(i) were committed intentionally; and/or
(ii) fell significantly below the standard of conduct expected of a Player in the prevailing circumstances; and
(iii) in the case of each of (i) and/or (ii) above, demonstrate a culpable disregard by the Player for the consequences which might result from such acts and/or omissions.
(A2) Violent conduct (as described from time to time in the Laws of the Game)
(A3) Biting or spitting at someone,

and, in the case of each or any of A1, A2 and/or A3, where the player was not dismissed by the referee as a result of the alleged act/acts referred to within the Fast Track Notice of Complaint.

Any Fast Track Notice of Complaint alleging a breach of this Rule shall be Determined by a Fast Track Tribunal subject to the provisions of Section 13.

Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Thursday 28th April 2022. 

Outcome: Admitted: 2 match mandatory suspension, effective immediately to the player's Recognised Team's next 2 matches, irrespective of competition (A2 - Violent Conduct).

Notice of Complaint | Marvin Bartley, Team Staff, Livingston FC

Alleged Party in Breach: Marvin Bartley, Team Staff, Livingston FC

Date: 2 April 2022

Competition: Scottish Premiership

Match: St Johnstone FC v Livingston FC

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 203 – No member of Team Staff shall commit Misconduct at a match

Hearing date: Thursday 21 April 2022

Notice of Complaint | Connor Lewis Potts, Player, Dalbeattie Star FC

Alleged Party in Breach: Connor Lewis Potts, Team Staff, Dalbeattie Star FC

Date: 19 March 2022

Competition: Lowland Football League

Match: Dalbeattie Star FC v Berwick Rangers FC

Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 77

Hearing date: Thursday 14 April 2022