Birmingham City have been fined £100,000 and Ipswich Town £24,000 for failing to control their players in their opening Championship match of the season.

Both clubs have been given warnings after they admitted the charge at the Football Association's independent regulatory commission.

It had been alleged the clubs "failed to ensure their players didn't behave in an improper and/or provocative way around the 95th minute" of their 1-1 draw at St Andrew's on 8 August.

Pushing and shoving involving both sets of players first broke out after Ipswich were awarded a penalty kick in stoppage time, and again after it was converted by George Hirst.

The commission noted that this latest disciplinary sanction on Birmingham was the club's fifth in the 12 months from their first - against Wrexham in League One on 16 September 2024.

Five days ago, the club's fourth sanction was handed down with a £20,000 penalty for failing to control their players on the final day of the League One season on 3 May against Cambridge United, who were fined £5,000.

That record pushed Birmingham's maximum fine to £135,000 before it was reduced because of mitigating...