MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Major League Soccer has provided life time bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for wagering 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 discovered to have "participated in extensive betting on soccer, consisting of by themselves teams" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one celebration both players positioned bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then took place - 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 gamers likely shared secret information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards," the statement from the league.


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


Yeboah, who has actually been topped 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 bet Spanish side Numancia and Polish team Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has invested his entire career in the United States having played for 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