Italy's Juventus docked 15 points for transfer deals

An Italian soccer court examining the club's

has docked Juventus 15 points for the current season, leaving the country's most successful team stranded in mid-table.

The ruling, which also harms the club's reputation, is harsher than a nine-point deduction requested by a soccer prosecutor earlier on Friday during a hearing into how Juventus and a number of other teams handled

.

Juve was third in Serie A with 37 points after 20 games, 10 points behind champions Napoli. The deduction drops them to tenth place, outside of the lucrative European competition qualifying slots.

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