MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Major League Soccer has actually provided life time bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offenses.


Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League side Qingdao Hainiu last month after his contract with Los Angeles FC was ended in January.


Jones, 29, was released from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.


A declaration from MLS stated that the players were found to have "engaged in substantial betting on soccer, consisting of on their own teams" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one occasion both players placed bets on Jones receiving a yellow card - which then happened - in a match for Columbus Crew versus New York City Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.


Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.


"MLS likewise figured out that the players most likely shared personal information with other wagerers about their intent to draw yellow cards," included the declaration from the league.


"No proof was recognized that suggested any of these betting activities affected the outcome of a match."


Yeboah, who has been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 however did not make a first-team look and had loan spells at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.


He then played for Spanish side Numancia and Polish team Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has actually invested his whole in the United States having actually bet Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.


Jones was capped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 level.


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16 August 2025