Overview

• CAS dismissed Drogheda’s urgent appeal against their exclusion from next season’s Conference League.
• Common ownership by the Trivela Group barred Drogheda since Silkeborg secured the spot by finishing higher in its domestic league.
• Drogheda will forfeit €350,000 in prize money and miss European competition for the first time since 2013.
• The Court of Arbitration rejected Drogheda’s claims of unequal treatment after the club sought governance changes to comply with UEFA rules.
• UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body must rule on whether John Textor’s stakes in Crystal Palace and Lyon violate regulations, potentially opening a berth for Nottingham Forest.