The fines ranged from $10,000-$18,000 and the players have been suspended from club football until these amounts are paid by their district associations.

However all eight have been banned for five years from the national team.
The associations meanwhile are refusing to pay what they say are exhorbitant fines.

Defenders Apisolome Turuva (Labasa) and Jone Vesikula (Ba) copped the biggest fines of $18,000 each.

Lautoka duo Samuela Kautoga and Taniela Waqa Junior have been fined $12,000.
Ben Kumar (Navua), Noa Seru (Labasa), Jone Sorolo (Ba) and Seremaia Nadusitu (Lautoka) were fined $10,000.

The team had been preparing for upcoming Olympic qualifiers and officials claimed agents for Australian clubs would be there to run their eye over Fiji's best talent.

The Fiji Times reported that during a press conference yesterday Fiji FA president Doctor Muhammad Shams-ud Dean Sahu Khan revealed that five players broke house rules by smoking cigarettes on the academy premises on Saturday.

He said at 10.30pm nine players broke camp and went on a drinking spree the same day.

"They came back intoxicated at around 4.45 the following morning," said Dr Khan. "The security did not open the gate so the players went around at the back of the academy and climbed over the fence to gain entry.

"They packed their belongings and left the camp."

Dr Sahu Khan said all the players had signed an agreement with the Fiji FA for the training camp.

"Fiji FA has spent a lot of money in preparations for the Olympic team," he added. "Two of the players Apisolome Turuva and Jone Vesikula went to the United States tour with all expenses paid.

"On January 7 I addressed the team and told them that overseas scouts would be coming to watch the Olympic qualifiers and select players for teams in Australia and New Zealand.

"We spend all this money to train these players, put them in the academy and pay them allowances.

"If they are going to pay us back this way then Fiji FA will not tolerate it anymore. It's very sad."