The agents banned for their roles in Albion's signing of Dale Stephens have had their appeals dismissed by the FA.

An appeal board has confirmed the 14-month suspensions of Alex Levack and Matthew Kleinman from all agency activity and intermediary activity for breaching The FA’s Football Agent Regulations.

The pair were banned for deliberately misleading the FA over the transfer of midfielder Stephens from Charlton in January 2014.

Albion were fined £90,000 and warned as to their future conduct, although the FA accepted they had not in any way acted dishonestly and had simply been misled by the agents.