Ivan Toney also banned from TRAINING as details of eight-month suspension are revealed

IVAN TONEY will NOT be allowed to train for four months.

The Brentford striker, 27, was hit with an eight-month ban from all football-related activity following his 232 betting breaches.

Ivan Toney has been banned for eight months with immediate effectGetty

That means he can not represent the Bees or England until January 2024.

But the FA statement also confirmed he cannot even take part in training until September.

That means Toney will miss the rest of this season and cannot join his team-mates for pre-season or even any sessions once the new Premier League season gets underway.

But he will be permitted to get back involved at training from September 17 – four months before he is allowed to play in any competitive action again.

The FA said: “Ivan Toney has been suspended from all football and football-related activity with immediate effect for eight months, which runs up to and including 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s Betting Rules.

“The Brentford FC forward was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in total between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021. The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of these breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232.

“His sanctions were subsequently imposed by an independent Regulatory Commission following a personal hearing. He is permitted to return to training only with his club for the final four months of his suspension starting from 17 September 2023.

“The independent Regulatory Commission’s written reasons for these sanctions will be published in due course, and The FA will wait to review them before commenting further.”

Toney, who earns around £20,000 per week, appeared before an independent FA disciplinary commission but was unsuccessful in his attempt to argue down his looming ban.