Overview
- The SFA determined under Article 10 that Seref Zengin and Gerry Strain are not fit and proper and prohibited them with immediate effect from any role, management involvement, or influence at Hamilton Academical.
- Companies House lists Strain as the club’s only director, leaving Accies without a fit senior decision-maker following the SFA decision.
- The SFA cited Zengin’s responsibility for persistent financial mismanagement, including repeated failures to pay players, HMRC, and employee pension funds on time.
- Findings against Strain include involvement in SPFL charges leading to a 15-point deduction, removal from Club Academy Scotland over child wellbeing shortcomings, and breaches tied to paying amateurs and trialists that brought a six-point deduction.
- Strain says he is seeking legal advice, Zengin says he has complained to the Scottish Government and is pursuing a consortium takeover, and the club faces potential further sanctions if it fails to comply within seven days.