{"id":338826,"date":"2025-08-12T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338826\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:58:12","slug":"palace-hit-out-at-court-of-arbitration-of-sport-and-uefa-after-losing-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338826\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace hit out at Court of Arbitration of Sport and Uefa after losing appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham Forest finished seventh in the Premier League last season and have been promoted to the Europa League in Palace&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Multi-club structures hide behind the charade of a &#8216;blind trust&#8217; while clubs such as ours, who have no connection to another club whatsoever, are prevented from playing in the same competition,&#8221; Palace said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To compound the injustice, clubs that appear to have huge informal arrangements with each other are also allowed to participate and even possibly play against each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Eagles had until 1 March 2025 to show Uefa proof of multi-club ownership restructuring, but missed the deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American businessman John Textor owned a 43% stake in Palace but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/clyl2dzyvr4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sold it in June<\/a> and is the majority owner of Lyon, who have also qualified for the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cas said that Textor &#8220;still had decisive influence over both clubs&#8221; at the time of Uefa&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel also dismissed Palace&#8217;s argument that they received unfair treatment in comparison to Nottingham Forest and Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest finished seventh in the Premier League last season and have been promoted to the Europa League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016624020118098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}