Defender Harry Toffolo is the latest Premier League player to be charged by the Football Association (FA) over a breach of betting rules.
Defender Harry Toffolo is the latest Premier League player to be charged by the Football Association (FA) over a breach of betting rules.
The Nottingham Forest full back broke FA betting rules on 375 occasions according to the governing body, between January 2014 and March 2017.
He was under contract with Norwich City at the time but was also loaned out to a handful of English Football League (EFL) clubs, including Swindon Town, Rotherham, Peterborough and Scunthorpe United.
Toffolo is alleged to have breached FA rule E8, which prohibits professional players from betting on matches or asking others to do so on their behalf.
It also bars players from sharing privileged information for betting purposes.
Toffolo and Nottingham Forest are yet to respond to the charges.
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The FA has moved to clamp down on betting breaches in recent years.
In December 2020, England defender Kieran Trippier was banned from all football for 10 weeks and fined £70,000 after leaking information about his transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Atlético Madrid.
The most recent enforcement example involves another England international in Brentford striker Ivan Toney.
In May, he was banned from the sport for eight months and fined £50,000 after being found guilty of more than 200 breaches. He had even bet on his own team to lose matches.
Toney was later diagnosed with a gambling addiction. He is scheduled to return to action with Brentford in January 2024, nearly six months into the upcoming campaign.