OL is still not taken from the start of its participation in the Europa League this season. Explanations.
Sixth in Ligue 1 last season, OL miraculously snatched a beautiful European ticket, thus qualified for the next edition of the Europa League. A threatened time of demotion in Ligue 2, the Gones were also in the UEFA crosshairs, which threatened to exclude them from the continental scene in the event of a dive in the anteroom of the elite. But everything is not yet won yet …
The Sports Arbitral Tribunal (TAS) announced on Tuesday the opening of a procedure by Crystal Palace, a premier league club determined to regain its place in the Europa League, even if it means harming to OL. The Eagles, according to their president Steve Parish, being victims of ” One of the greatest injustices never occurred in European football ».
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As a reminder, on July 11, UEFA validated the qualification of Lyonnais in the Europa League while relegating the London club to the league conference. This is due to the multiple ownership then embodied by John Textor, ex-bone of the Gones holding shares with the capital of Crystal Palace. An incomprehensible reasoning for the Eagles since the American businessman two weeks earlier had gave his 45% shares to Robert Wood Johnson, the boss of the US football franchise from New York Jets.
Verdict for OL within two to three weeks
As the Tas, Crystal Palace, winner of the FA Cup 2024-2025 reports, “ requests his reintegration into the Europa League 2025-2026, with the rejection of the admission of Nottingham Forest (Seventh Premier League hitherto confined to the conference league, editor's note). Otherwise, the club requests its reinstatement in the Europa League with the rejection of the admission of OL. »»
UEFA until then has turned a deaf ear because the transfer operated at the end of June by John Textor has not yet been officially acted by the Premier League. A simple administrative setback that is not to worry Crystal Palace, sure of its fact. “” With the finalization of the sale of Eagle Football shares in Woody Johnson, there will be no risk of conflict of interest once the competition is launched », Childed in a press release from the hammering eagles» do not be part of a multi-club organization and never have been ». The heap therefore has the European fate of OL in his hands. With an expected verdict “ August 11 at the latest ».
