Avellino remains out of Serie B. The CONI Guarantee Board rejected the appeal filed by lawyer Chiacchio, which was detailed but deemed insufficient to change the course of events:
"The Sports Guarantee Board, in Joint Sections, in the action filed on 23 July 2018, pursuant to art. 1 of the Regulations provided for by art. 54, paragraph 3, CONI CGS, by the company US Avellino 1912 srl against the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), represented by its Extraordinary Commissioner and legal representative pro tempore, Dr. Roberto Fabbricini, for the challenge of the resolution of the same Extraordinary Commissioner, published in the Official Notice no. 33 of 20 July 2018 - with which the appeal lodged by the aforementioned company against the finding, by Co.Vi.Soc., pursuant to a note dated 12 July 2018, of failure to comply with the "legal and economic-financial criteria", as established, for the purposes of issuing the National License for admission to the 2018/2019 Serie B Championship, in the CU no. 27 of 13 April 2017 and in the integration referred to in the subsequent CU no. 49 of 24 May 2018, with the simultaneous denial to the Irpinia club of the concession of the requested National Licence and with the rejection of its application for registration in Serie B for the 2018/2019 season, as well as all the prerequisite, connected and/or consequent acts to the same decision, including, in particular, the aforementioned objection of the Supervisory Body of 12 July 2018 and the contrary opinion of the same Co.Vi.Soc. of 19 July 2018 - given that, in accordance with what emerged from the oral discussion and the documentation produced by the appellant, the latter, from a substantive point of view, would appear to possess the requirements of suitability and financial sustainability; considering, moreover, that CU no. 49 which indicates an enormously restricted, but nonetheless binding, procedural framework, has not been challenged within the established terms, The Panel cannot evaluate the legitimacy of these formalistic criteria and rejects the appeal."
