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3mo ago

UEFA hearing leaves Crystal Palace’s Europa League spot uncertain

Palace made their case to UEFA’s club financial control body on June 3 to prove compliance with multiclub ownership rules, with owner John Textor seeking to sell his stake to resolve the issue.

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Palace qualified for the Europa League by winning the FA Cup
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Overview

  • Crystal Palace appeared before UEFA officials in Nyon to argue that Textor’s simultaneous stakes in Palace and Lyon do not breach multiclub ownership regulations.
  • John Textor is actively pursuing the sale of his 43% share in Palace as part of efforts to safeguard the club’s Europa League qualification.
  • The club emphasised that Textor holds only 25% of voting rights alongside co-owners and does not exercise decisive influence over football operations.
  • Palace have proposed placing one of the clubs into a UEFA-supervised blind trust to pause any owner involvement and satisfy governance criteria.
  • If Palace are deemed ineligible, seventh-placed Nottingham Forest would move into the Europa League and Brighton would advance into the Europa Conference League.