Overview
- FIP and the Serie A league scheduled an urgent Monday meeting in Rome to consider exclusion on grounds of lost competitive equality, citing the 2019 Mens Sana Siena case.
- The sports judge is expected to record a 0–20 forfeit and fine Trapani €250,000 for entering with five fewer professionals than the 12 required.
- Trapani dressed only seven players — three professionals plus four youth — and the game was halted at 26–11 after about four minutes when too few remained on court.
- The players’ union GIBA denounced the situation and urged the club to find an immediate solution to protect athletes and the sport’s reputation.
- Owner Valerio Antonini is serving a four-year FIP ban and both his football and basketball teams carry heavy points deductions for fiscal and social‑security violations.