Dundee Football Club have been deducted 25 points by the Scottish Football League for going into administration.
The First Division outfit have also been banned from signing any new players until they exit administration.
The SFL board added in its statement: "We are of the opinion that lessons are not being learned."
The club's administrator Bryan Jackson told BBC Scotland: "Not only will we appeal under the SFL rules but I'm now going to consider a legal appeal."
The deduction will leave the Dark Blues bottom of the First Division on minus 11 points, 20 behind the nearest team Morton, with 25 league games left to play.
