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 offences.


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 launched from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.


A statement from MLS stated that the players were discovered to have "taken part in comprehensive gambling on soccer, consisting of on their own teams" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS noted that on one occasion both players placed bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then occurred - 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 also determined that the players likely shared secret information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards," included the statement from the league.


"No proof was identified that suggested any of these wagering activities affected the result of a match."


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


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


Ghana-born Jones has spent his entire profession in the United States having actually 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