Top 10 Footballers With The Longest Bans In The Premier League

Top 10 Soccer Players With The Longest Bans In The Premier League

Which Footballers make the Top 10 Footballers With The Longest Bans In The Premier League? you would have seen some of the Longest bans in English Football as it happened, However, if you didn’t or have not heard of some of them, we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Longest Bans in The Premier League for you to check out. Football like any other sport has rules and if a player breaks those rules he or she faces punishment, sometimes they subjected to a fine and sometimes they face serious bans, And in English Football there is a board who takes care of it all is the English Football Association.

Top 10 Longest Football Suspensions In The Premier League

We have Previously published a list on the Worst Fights In Football!, Worst Football Injuries Of All Time  and also Top 10 Football Biters if you have not seen these articles yet, you might want to after this list.

So without further ado let’s count down to the Top 10 Footballers With The Longest Bans In The Premier League.

10. Joey Barton – 6 matches

After a vicious assault on Manchester City team mate Ousmane Dabo, Joey Barton was then suspended for 6 matches and paid the highest Premier League fine ever of £150,000. This came when both involved in a training ground bust up that saw Ousmane suffer a detached retina and multiple bruises as you seen in the picture we’ve provided along this ban. The English man Barton went to court over incident and was found guilty. 

9. David Batty – 6 matches

In May 1998, David Batty a then English club Newcastle United player who would play as a midfielder got a 6 matches ban for his worse behaviour of pushing the match Referee  David Elleray to the floor in his club’s game against Blackburn Rovers. He committed this offence after being sent off the field after he was shown a red card. 

8. Luis Suarez – 8 matches

Luis Suarez‘s first appearance in this list saw him banned for 8 matches after he was adjudged to have called a then Manchester United full back Patrice Evra a “Negrito” a word that is used in his home country Uruguay to describe black people. The centre forward was later found guilty of racially abusing the United player. This incident looked infamous in the Premier League becoming one of the biggest debates in the English league

7.  Ben Thatcher – 8 matches

Ben Thatcher is the other player in our list as he was banned for several games, paying a fine of over One Hundred and Twenty thousand Pounds on top of the suspension after he harshly tackled a Portuguese player Pedro Mendes in 2006, he not only tackled him but also elbow smashed his face.

Mendes suffered a seizure as a result of the challenge from the then Manchester City defender. Mendes was then playing as a midfielder for English club Portsmouth 

6.  Luis Suarez – 10 matches

In April 2013, another matches ban for the former Liverpool Football Club striker Luis Suarez came after he bit the right arm of the 31 year old Serbia captain and Chelsea Football Club defender Branislav Ivanovic in a match he was not sent off by the Referee but was later fined by the FA and banned for 10 matches paying a fine on to his suspension. Though it seemed like a nothing coming together between the pair after Suarez came out to apologize for his bad behavior.

After this incidence Luis Suarez did not stop his act of cannibalism as he repeated the same kind of incidence at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil when he bite Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.

5. David Prutton – 10 matches

The then Southampton midfielder David Prutton lost his cool and shoved the Referee Alan Wiley after the Linesman assisted Wiley in sending off the midfielder for his horrible tackle near the corner flag. David got a red card and this was in 2005 when his club were playing Arsenal Football Club though for his behaviour of shoving the chest of the referee he was banned for 10 matches. 

4. Paolo Di Canio – 11 matches

The then Sheffield Wednesday star was banned for 11 matches and paying a fine on to his suspension after he pushed the Referee Paul Alcock in September 1998 Premier League season in a game when Sheffield was playing Arsenal Di Canio was sent off the pitch then he subsequently decided to push the Paul Alcock, the referee forcefully to the ground, this is why he was banned.

3. Joey Barton – 12 matches

In Manchester City’s game when they won their first Premier League title just with an 8 goal difference with city rivals Manchester United who also had 89 points, Joey Barton picked up his ban for the end of the season melt down as the Queens Park Rangers player elbowed Carlos Tevez, followed by a knee drive into Sergio Kun Aguero and aslo made sure he got in even more trouble when he attempted to headbutt City captain Vincent Kompany later being sent off and he was banned for 12 matches by the FA .

2. Vinnie Jones – 6 months

Football’s archetypal hardman was suspended for six months in 1992 for his voiceover on video celebrating dangerous tackles. He is the player with the  longest ban picked up in the Premier League era minus drug bans.He played for several clubs during his senior football career including London based clubs Chelsea Football Club and Queens Park Rangers.

1. Eric Cantona – 9 months

French player Eric Cantona effectively lost a season from his already relatively short career as he was banned by the English Football Association for the now longest ban ever of 9 months after he lost his cool to make a horrible Kungu-Fu kick followed by a punch to the face of the young fan who is said to have been racist to Cantona through out the match. Eric stands by his decision saying ” It was one of his greatest moments of his career “