The FA has said it will not appeal against the decision by an independent commission to clear West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta of four spot-fixing charges.
The written reasons for the commission's decisions in the case were published on Wednesday afternoon.
Sanctions in relation to two charges which were found proven – relating to an alleged failure to co-operate with the FA investigation – will be decided by the commission at the earliest opportunity, the FA said.
It had been alleged Paqueta deliberately attempted to receive a card in four Premier League games between November 2022 and August 2023, but the charges were found not proven.
The FA said 253 separate bettors placed bets on Paqueta being yellow-carded over the four matches, and the FA said 27 could be linked to the player.
Paqueta maintained he only had a real relationship with five of the people. He said he did not speak to the five regularly, and even then, rarely about football.
The FA said the 253 bettors laid stakes of £47,000 (€54,000) and made a profit of £167,000 (€192,000).
However, the commission concluded that an analysis of the betting data was not "illustrative of a spot-fix".
Former West Ham manager David Moyes and ex-Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg gave evidence on Paqueta’s behalf from a performance perspective.
Moyes told the commission: "I have re-watched the yellow card incidents closely and, based on my own footballing experience and knowledge of (Paqueta). consider them to be entirely within the normal range of actions for this player."
Clattenburg disagreed with findings presented by Stats Perform Integrity Services (SPIS) in support of the FA’s case, and felt two of the four yellow cards should not have been shown.
The commission concluded there was "nothing in Paqueta’s on-field conduct" which advanced the FA’s case that he had deliberately sought to be booked in any of the four games.
The commission drew no adverse inference from the fact messages had been deleted from Paqueta’s phone because a time-sensitive automatic deletion function had been activated. The FA accepted it could not be proved Paqueta had deliberately deleted any messages or contacts.
More than 300 deleted messages were recovered, none of which had anything to do with spot-fixing. The commission said this was "a salient reminder to the commission not to jump to conclusions and the dangers of drawing adverse inferences from events unknown".
