‘It's a fact' – Crystal Palace owner Steve Parish gives major update on Eagles being kicked out of Europa League
The Eagles earned a spot in Europe's second tier following their 1-0 FA Cup final victory over
Manchester
City in May - however last week they were officially banned and relegated to the Conference League.
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Parish says Palace will mount a legal challenge against the decision
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Palace fans have protested against Uefa's rulings on Tuesday evening
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Their FA Cup victory has been marred by the controversy
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At the time of the final, now-former Palace co-owner John Textor held stakes in both the south
London
club and Lyon, who are in the
Europa League
next
season after finishing sixth and
Ligue 1
.
Eagles fans have already begun
Speaking on
court
for arbitration and, you know, we're very hopeful. We think we've got great legal arguments.
'We don't think this is the right decision by any means. We know unequivocally that John didn't have decisive influence over the club.
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'We know we proved that beyond all reasonable doubt because it's a fact.'
Uefa rules state no owner or co-owner can have a controlling interest in more than one club competing in the same European competition during the same season. Palace dispute that Textor did not have sufficient enough control.
As it stands, Palace will be replaced in the Europa League by
Nottingham Forest
, who finished seventh last term.
Forest will be £3.9million better off as a result of the decision.
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Parish continued: 'We feel that there are a lot of very genuine mitigating circumstances and more than enough wriggle room to put us in the competition.
'It does look bad. This is the dream right? This is what keeps
football
alive.
Crystal Palace fans protest against Europa League demotion
'This is why everybody goes, because they think one day they might win a cup and they might qualify for
Europe
.
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'These things can be defining moments for a club and completely change the course of
history
forever.
'Hopefully when we go to CAS we get the right answer.
'We get the written version of (the ruling) with the detail then apparently the appeal is 10 days.'
In a statement, Uefa said its Club Financial Control Body confirmed the decision by French financial chiefs had cleared Lyon's path to take up their place in the Europa League.
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The governing body said: 'Consequently, the CFCB pursued the assessment of the documentation submitted by Lyons and
'For this reason the CFCB First Chamber decided: To accept Lyons' admission to the 2025/26 Europa League.
'And to reject Crystal Palace's admission to the 2025/26 Uefa Europa League and to accept Crystal Palace's admission to the 2025/26 Uefa Conference League.'
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