Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has been accused of a £40,000 tax evasion following an appearance in a London police station.
The 62-year-old Londoner voluntarily attended Bishopsgate police station to be charged by police, his solicitor said.
The move comes at the end of an exhaustive 26-month police and tax inquiry into alleged corruption in English football.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: 'Henry (Harry) Redknapp, the former football manager of Portsmouth City (sic) Football Club, has today been charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue.'
Ian Burton, Redknapp's solicitor, said: 'Harry has co-operated fully with investigators during the course of this inquiry and is confident of a successful outcome to these court proceedings.'
The CPS statement added: 'The CPS Revenue and Customs Division decided there was sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest to charge Mr Redknapp.
'He is jointly charged with Milan Mandaric, the former chairman of Portsmouth City Football Club, following an investigation by the City of London Police and HM Revenue & Customs.'
The charges concern two payments, totalling $295,000 from Mr Mandaric to Mr Redknapp via a bank account in Monaco, evading the tax and national insurance contributions due between 1 April 1 2002 and 28 November 2007.
The payments were in relation to Mr Redknapp's employment. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 February.
Redknapp's arrest was part of a wider inquiry, dubbed Operation Apprentice, by City of London Police and HM Revenue and Customs into alleged football corruption.
