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“As a Derby fan this has been a somewhat miserable time,” begins Mark Ward. “With the announcement of our 12-point deduction for going into administration, I was wondering whether any team had weathered a similar punishment without being relegated? If so, with the threat of another nine-point deduction hanging over Pride Park, what’s the biggest penalty given to a club that avoided relegation?”
Let’s start with a tale about a bouncebackable Old Lady. “I suspect Serie B in 2006-07 isn’t quite the reply your reader is looking for, but it’s always interesting to remember Juventus’s brief sojourn in Italy’s second tier,” writes Alan Gomes. “Juve were relegated in the aftermath of the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal and deducted a whopping 30 points. That was later reduced to nine points.
Juventus didn’t just avoid relegation: they won the league, finishing six points ahead of second-placed Napoli.