Former Major League Soccer players Yaw Yeboah and Derrick Jones received lifetime bans for betting on MLS matches — including their own — the league announced Monday.
Yeboah, 28, most recently played for LAFC in 2025 and is a former teammate of Jones with the Columbus Crew. Both were placed on administrative leave last October while awaiting league review of potential MLS rules violations.
MLS hired the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP to investigate after the league received suspicious betting alerts through integrity partners. The law firm found that Jones and Yeboah