Administration and a 10-point deduction are in store for Sheffield Wednesday.

According to a recent report on the Championship club’s financial difficulties, Sheffield Wednesday is expected to be thrown into administration soon. The majority of 2025 has seen Wednesday as a team in the spotlight, but regrettably for all the wrong reasons. The Owls have received a lot of attention because of Dejphon Chansiri’s deteriorating ownership, which allowed many players to go in the summer for pitiful sums of money.

Even worse, Danny Rohl left the team after 18 months in South Yorkshire, where he had made a name for himself as a talented young manager. This severely reduced their already weak odds of making it through their third season back in the Championship.

This season, many Wednesday supporters have abstained from home games in protest of Chansiri’s ownership, which has only caused the team to struggle in recent years. The Sheffield team has also been subject to several embargoes this summer. It appears that Wednesday is going to take yet another crushing blow, according to talkSPORT.

Administration Looming For Wednesday

According to The Sun, Chansiri has “failed to cough up players’ salaries five out of the last seven months” as of Wednesday. As a result, the team faces a negative 10-point deduction, which would almost guarantee their predicted relegation to League One.

TalkSPORT claims that the Owls will be placed into administration “imminently” because they owe HMRC £1 million in overdue taxes. A 10-point penalty will be immediately applied to them as a result.

An independent administrator is appointed to take charge of a football team’s finances and operations when it enters administration. The administrator’s goal is to keep the team a going concern by restructuring debts, finding new investors, or selling assets while stopping payments to unsecured creditors. In addition to facing a transfer embargo, the club usually faces an immediate deduction of points, continued play under stringent cost limits, and the possibility of a sale to new owners, liquidation if no buyer is found, or, in the worst situations, expulsion from the league.

With just six points from their first 11 games, Wednesday, who are now managed by Henrik Pedersen, are at the bottom of the Championship. They will be 13 points from safety after their 10-point deduction, on -4 points.

If nothing else, Wednesday supporters can still hope for better times ahead, although whatever optimism that may still be present in Hillsborough at this point could be crushed by an official points deduction.