Palace Fans Protest Over Conference League Demotion

Crystal Palace supporters person staged a protestation against Uefa's determination to demote nan nine to nan Conference League.

On Tuesday, hundreds of fans marched to Palace's Selhurst Park crushed carrying banners and chanting against European football's governing body.

The Eagles, who qualified for nan Europa League by winning nan FA Cup successful May - their first awesome trophy - were demoted to nan little tier of Uefa title aft breaching multi-club ownership rules.

American businessman John Textor owns a liking successful Crystal Palace and is nan mostly proprietor of French nine Lyon, who person besides qualified for nan Europa League.

The rules of European football's governing assemblage authorities clubs owned, to a definite period of influence, by nan aforesaid personification aliases entity cannot compete successful nan aforesaid European competition.

Uefa's rules group a deadline of 1 March 2025 to show impervious of multi-club ownership restructuring - a deadline which Palace missed.

Textor is presently successful nan process of trading his liking successful Crystal Palace to New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson.

Nottingham Forest, who vanished seventh successful nan Premier League past season, are group to switch Palace successful nan Europa League.

Palace are expected to return their lawsuit to nan Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).

"At nan extremity of nan time it's an injustice, conscionable by a mates of admin errors. We qualified for it," Nick Philpot from nan Red and Blue Review podcast said astatine nan march.

"We won nan cup - it should beryllium we spell into it without immoderate mobility astir it.

"You're penalising nan full nine and nan fanbase. Why would you do that?"

Last week, Crystal Palace president Steve Parish called nan determination "a bad time for football" and "a unspeakable injustice".

"We've been locked retired of a European title connected nan astir ridiculous technicality," he said. "Supporters of each clubs should beryllium devastated for us."

Uefa has been approached for comment.