Palace Await Euro Fate As Lyon Win Relegation Appeal

Lyon will play successful Ligue 1 adjacent play aft nan French broadside won their entreaty against relegation.

French shot authorities demoted nan seven-time champions into Ligue 2 past period because of their mediocre financial state.

But that determination has now been overturned, and could impact Crystal Palace's chances of playing successful nan Europa League adjacent play arsenic Lyon person besides qualified for nan competition.

Uefa could norm connected Palace's business by nan extremity of nan week.

A Lyon connection said: "Olympique Lyonnais welcomes nan determination to support nan nine successful Ligue 1. OL acknowledgment nan entreaty committee for having recognised nan ambition of nan club's caller management, wished to guarantee superior guidance successful nan future.

"Today's determination is nan first measurement successful restoring assurance successful Olympique Lyonnais. We tin now attraction our attraction connected sporting goals, afloat preparing for adjacent season."

The uncertainty complete Palace's European spot for adjacent play stems from a perceived breach of Uefa's multi-club ownership rules.

Eagle Football Holdings - owned by American businessman John Textor - is astatine nan centre of nan case.

The institution presently owns stakes successful Palace and Lyon, pinch Uefa rules stating clubs cannot compete successful nan aforesaid European title if they are owned to a definite period of power by nan aforesaid personification aliases entity.

FA Cup winners Palace person based on Textor does not clasp immoderate decisive influence, but Uefa are yet to norm complete whether they judge nan Premier League side's defence.

Had Lyon's relegation been upheld, they had agreed pinch Uefa to beryllium excluded from nan Europa League, clearing nan measurement for Palace to play successful nan competition.

Textor resigned from his position connected nan committee of Lyon past period and has agreed to waste his 43% liking successful Palace to New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson.

Crystal Palace's Europa League dreams now remainder pinch Uefa, pinch those astatine Selhurst Park fearing nan worst.

They are waiting connected Uefa to determine whether John Textor's liking successful nan nine breaches nan governing body's multi-club ownership rules by nan extremity of nan week.

Uefa's determination to hold their ruling connected whether Textor held decisive power astatine Selhurst Park has irked galore astatine Palace, who judge nan governing assemblage wants to debar making a resolution.

With Lyon having won their entreaty against relegation from Ligue 1, Uefa cannot debar nan ruling overmuch longer. It begs nan mobility that if Uefa believed Palace were not successful breach of their rules, would they person made that determination by now?

That's nan interest for nan Eagles.

Palace will apt person nan comfortableness broad of playing successful nan European Conference League adjacent season, which would still correspond their first foray into European nine competition.

But if it comes to that, a consciousness of a monolithic miscarriage of justness will grip Selhurst Park.

They won't return it lying down either arsenic nan nine person already explored their ineligible options earlier taking nan lawsuit to nan Court of Arbitration for Sport if required.