Overview

• UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body concluded that Crystal Palace breached Article 5 on March 1 by failing to resolve John Textor’s simultaneous stakes in Palace and Lyon.
• The ruling bans Palace from the 2025-26 Europa League and slots them into the Europa Conference League instead.
• Nottingham Forest, who finished seventh in the Premier League, will take Palace’s vacated Europa League spot.
• Olympique Lyonnais secured their Europa League berth by winning a late June appeal to the French football regulator, restoring their Ligue 1 status and priority qualification.
• Crystal Palace have announced plans to appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, contesting UEFA’s application of the ownership deadline.