Overview
- Crystal Palace has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over UEFA’s decision to relegate them to the Conference League for breaching multi-club ownership rules.
- CAS confirmed it will fast-track the proceedings and issue an operative ruling by August 11 without publishing the legal grounds.
- The appeal argues that John Textor’s stake sale to Woody Johnson complies with UEFA’s March 1 deadline for resolving dual club ownership.
- Nottingham Forest has provisionally taken Palace’s Europa League berth and will retain it if the appeal is unsuccessful.
- Palace’s submission also requests that UEFA sanction Olympique Lyonnais and Nottingham Forest by demoting them to the Conference League if the club is reinstated.