The Manchester City striker appear to elbow West Ham defender Winston Reid in Sunday’s Premier League game at the Etihad.
Referee Andre Marriner took no action at the time – despite appearing to be looking straight at the incident – but the FA have acted after reviewing TV evidence.
Aguero has until 6pm tomorrow to reply to the charge.
If found guilty, the Argentina international would receive a three-game ban and be ruled out of the Manchester derby on September 10 as well as City’s following Premier League game against Bournemouth and the League Cup trip to Swansea.Off the ball incidents which are not seen at the time by the referee or his assistants are referred to a panel of three former elite match officials.
Each panel member will review the video footage independently of one another to determine whether they consider it a sending-off offence.
For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.
