The Premier League has spent more than £45m on legal costs last season as it fights to uphold its rules.
The league is involved in two separate legal disputes with four-times-in-a-row champions Manchester City, while it is also investigating Chelsea over alleged irregular payments linked to the club’s former owner Roman Abramovich.
On top of that, there have been legal cases connected to its profit and sustainability rules (PSR) involving Everton and Nottingham Forest, who were docked points last season, and Leicester City who will not now face an independent commission over an alleged breach.
The PA news agency understands the costs are included in information sent to clubs ahead of Thursday’s Premier League shareholders meeting in central London.
The meeting is the first since an appeal panel judged in Leicester’s favour in their dispute with the Premier League over an alleged PSR breach.
The appeal panel accepted Leicester’s argument that an independent commission set up under Premier League auspices did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, because the club were in the Championship at the time the final set of accounts in their PSR calculation were published.
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