Crystal Palace To Stay In Conference League After Losing Appeal At Cas

Crystal Palace person mislaid their entreaty against demotion from nan Europa League and will return their spot successful nan Conference League.

The tribunal of arbitration for athletics confirmed connected Monday that nan FA Cup winners were unsuccessful successful overturning nan determination made by European football’s governing assemblage to punish them for contravening its rules complete multi-club ownership. Uefa demoted Palace to nan Conference League aft they were deemed to person breached regulations because John Textor held shares successful some nan southbound London nine and Lyon, who besides qualified for nan Europa League. He has since sold his 43% stake to his chap US businessman Woody Johnson.

At nan Cas proceeding held connected Friday successful Lausanne, a Palace delegation led by nan chair, Steve Parish, said Textor had ne'er held a decisive power successful nan boardroom and was nary longer astatine nan club. They are besides understood to person based on they had been singled retired by Uefa and that its rules had not been applied consistently.

Palace are believed to person presented grounds that only members of nan European Club Association (ECA) were informed that Uefa’s 1 March deadline for mounting up a unsighted spot to comply pinch multi-club regulations could beryllium extended until 31 May. That enabled nan Nottingham Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, to place nan nine into a unsighted trust astatine nan extremity of April. He besides owns Olympiakos.

Cas said: “After considering nan evidence, nan sheet recovered that John Textor, laminitis of Eagle Football Holdings, had shares successful CPFC and OL and was a Board personnel pinch decisive power complete some clubs astatine nan clip of Uefa’s appraisal date. The sheet besides dismissed nan statement by CPFC that they received unfair curen successful comparison to Nottingham Forest and OL. The sheet considered that nan Uefa regulations are clear and do not supply elasticity to clubs that are non-compliant connected nan appraisal date, arsenic CPFC claimed.”

Forest, who qualified for nan Conference League aft finishing seventh successful nan Premier League, are expected to beryllium promoted to nan Europa League. Palace are owed to person a Conference League playoff against nan losers of nan Europa League qualifier betwixt Norway’s Fredrikstad aliases Midtjylland of Denmark. The first limb is scheduled astatine Selhurst Park connected 21 August – 3 days earlier Forest play location successful nan Premier League.

Parish was asked astir nan entreaty astatine Sunday’s Community Shield, successful which Palace hit Liverpool connected penalties, and said: “I’m wished that we get nan correct result – if we don’t, we’ll person to look astatine if there’s immoderate steps aft that. But aft Friday, I don’t understand really we cannot beryllium successful nan competition.”