Brazil Head coach Carlo Ancelotti has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined €386,361 by a Madrid court for failing to pay tax on his image rights revenue in the 2014 financial year
Ancelotti, who managed Real Madrid from 2013 to 2015 and between 2021 and 2025, was cleared of a similar charge for 2015, as the court could not prove he had stayed long enough in Spain to incur tax liabilities
Ancelotti is likely to receive a suspended sentence as, under Spanish law, any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.
Carlo Ancelotti on the other hand have continued to deny any wrongdoing during his trial stating that he was only concerned about his 6 million Euro net payment for 3 years and he never realized that anything was wrong
“I was only concerned with collecting six million net for three years, and I never realized anything was wrong , and I never received any communication that the Prosecutor’s Office was investigating me.
“When Real Madrid proposed this to me (referring to the transfer of image rights) I contacted my English advisor and never went into the matter because everything seemed correct to me. I didn’t think it could be fraud, although if I’m here, I believe things weren’t so correct.”
