Patrick Bamford will miss the first leg of Leeds United’s Championship play-off semi-final after being found guilty of “successful deception of a match official” by the Football Association.

The striker fell to the floor clutching his face during an anarchic mass altercation at Elland Road as Leeds drew 1-1 with Aston Villa last Sunday. Stuart Attwell, the referee, sent off the Villa defender Anwar El Ghazi for his apparent part in the incident but that straight red card has been rescinded after an independent panel ruled that his elbow made no contact with Bamford’s face, with the latter accused of duping Attwell by simulation.

Bamford will now miss Sunday’s final league fixture at Ipswich and the opening game of the play-offs. El Ghazi is now available for the play-offs.

Villa and Leeds were charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the second-half mêlée which occurred after Mateusz Klich gave Leeds the lead at a time when Villa had a player down injured and believed Marcelo Bielsa’s side were about to put the ball out of play.

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Bielsa instructed his players to allow Villa to equalise from the restart and things calmed down but both clubs are likely to be fined for what Dean Smith, the visiting manager, described as “a total loss of emotional control”. Leeds and Villa have until Friday evening to lodge appeals.

It is the second time this season that the two sides have been charged with failing to control their players; Leeds were fined £5,000 after a more minor flare-up in a game against Bolton and Villa the same amount in the wake of a similar skirmish in a derby with Birmingham.

In a statement, the FA said Bamford denied the charge but Leeds countered saying they had asked for a “sensible sanction” after Bielsa had allowed Villa to score.

“The club felt that given the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the extraordinary act of sportsmanship which saw our head coach Marcelo Bielsa demand our team to allow Aston Villa to score an uncontested equaliser, we could have a sensible discussion around the sanction,” a Leeds statement said.

“We acknowledge that the FA panel did not feel that to be reasonable and the club therefore joins Patrick in accepting the two-match ban.”