Uefa had ruled that Palace had breached multi-club ownership rules due to former majority shareholder John Textor owning the Premier League side and Lyon, who both qualified for the Europa League.
Palace fans protested against Uefa’s initial decision in July (Photo: PA)
The CAS panel ruled that Textor “was a board member with decisive influence over both clubs at the time of Uefa’s assessment date”, that Palace were not treated unfairly, as the club claimed, and that Uefa’s rules were “clear and do not provide flexibility to clubs that are non-compliant on the assessment date”.
“As a result, Palace will be admitted to compete in the Conference League 2025-2026. The appeal sought to annul the decision by the Uefa Club Financial Control Body on 11 July 2025 which found Palace and Lyon non-compliant with multi club ownership regulations. Alongside the annulment of the decision, Palace requested readmission to the Europa League with Nottingham Forest or Lyon’s admission rejected.”
They argued that Uefa rules were unfairly imposed on them and that the governing body was wrong to demote them to the Conference League and give their Europa League place, earned by winning the FA Cup in May, to Nottingham Forest.
Yet Palace lawyers pointed out that Uefa permitted Manchester City and Manchester United to compete in the same competitions as respective clubs under the same ownership, Girona and Nice.
Uefa previously allowed club owners to place conflicting clubs in a “blind trust”, but Textor missed the 1 March deadline to place his shares, since sold to Woody Johnson for £190m, in such a trust.
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It was also argued during the hearing that though Textor was the majority shareholder at the time, he did not have overall influence as decisions were voted on with three other co-owners.
During that time Palace also did not benefit from the multi-club ownership model by sharing resources, expertise and data, lawyers said.
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