Jose Mourinho fails with appeal against suspended stadium ban and £50,000 fine for referee rant following Southampton defeat 

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has failed in his appeal against a suspended stadium ban, the Football Association has announced.

Mourinho was given the suspended ban, along with a £50,000 fine, for comments about the referee after his side's defeat to Southampton on October 3.

An FA statement read: 'An appeal board has dismissed the appeal from Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in relation to a decision made by an independent regulatory commission.'

Jose Mourinho appeals on the touchline during his side's Champions League win against Dynamo Kiev

Mourinho went on a seven-minute rant to Sky Sports after his side's 3-1 defeat by Southampton last month

Southampton striker Graziano Pelle celebrates after scoring his side's third goal against Chelsea

'At the original commission hearing, Mr Mourinho was given a suspended one-match stadium ban and fined £50,000 after he admitted a breach of FA Rules in relation to post-match media comments made following the game against Southampton on Saturday 3 October 2015.

'The appeal board has upheld the original sanction and therefore it remains that Mr Mourinho's suspended stadium ban will be immediately invoked should he be found by an Independent Regulatory Commission to have committed a further breach of FA Rule E3 for any comment or statement to or through the media before 13 October 2016.'

Mourinho was charged with misconduct after he went on a seven-minute rant during an interview with Sky Sports after his side's 3-1 defeat by Southampton. 

The Blues boss criticised the officials, saying they were 'afraid to give decisions for Chelsea'. He was also left unhappy after Radamel Falcao was booked for diving after going down in the area. 

'The referees are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea,' Mourinho told Sky Sports.

'At 1-1 we have a penalty - it is a giant penalty, and he is afraid to give (it) like everybody else is afraid to give (them). If the FA want to punish me, they don't punish other managers but okay, they can punish me.

Chelsea's Radamel Falcao goes down in Souhampton's box after a challenge from Maarten Stekelenburg

Referee Robert Madley shows Falcao a yellow card for diving during Chelsea's defeat by Southampton 

Gary Cahill and Nemanja Matic (L-R) look dejected during another difficult afternoon for the champions

'I want to make it clear again, referees are afraid to give decisions. When you are top, you want to see people down. When we are down, give us a break.' 

Mourinho was slapped with an unrelated one-match stadium ban and a £40,000 by the FA on Monday after admitting to an FA charge of 'misconduct regarding his language and/or behaviour towards the match officials in or around the dressing room area during half-time' of last month's defeat by West Ham.

He will be missing from the touchline for Chelsea's game with Stoke at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday afternoon.