The first European game was relegated, why was Crystal Palace expelled from the Europa League?

The celebration atmosphere of Liverpool's celebration was quickly dispersed by a ruling in the community shield. The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected Crystal Palace’s appeal request for return to the UEFA Cup, which means they will miss the 2025-26 Europa League.

Previously, Crystal Miyamoto had been qualified to participate in the UEFA second-level club competition next season, but his qualification was deprived of the competition by UEFA due to the ownership of multiple clubs. However, despite being relegated to the European Union, for Crystal Palace fans, the European tour of the new season will still be full of expectations. This will be the first time that the Crystal Palace team led by coach Oliver Glasner has entered the European arena in history. The FA Cup championship road

Crystal Palace's process of obtaining European war qualifications is quite tortuous. After core player Michael Olisse transferred to Bayern Munich, the team started the Premier League in 2024-25, and there was little hope of winning the qualification for European competition through league rankings. Although the team escaped from the relegation crisis at the end of the year and improved significantly in the second half of the season, it ended up only ranked 12th in the Premier League.

Crystal Palace finally secured its UEFA Cup spot in May. Glasner's side defeated Aston Villa, who qualified for European competition through the sixth place in the league, and narrowly defeated Manchester City 1-0 in the final. The fundamental reason why Crystal Palace was deprived of the UEFA Cup qualification and relegated to the third-level event of UEFA is that it violated UEFA's rules on multi-club ownership (MCO). Although John Tuctor, former co-owner of the club, left office at the end of June, he held stakes in Crystal Palace and Ligue 1 team Lyon on March 1, as the key assessment date set by UEFA. UEFA stipulates that any potential conflict of interest must be resolved before this deadline, and Tector's departure is much later than that period. According to reports, Crystal Palace Club missed several reminder emails sent by UEFA about MCO rules. The

rules expressly prohibit clubs owned by the same controller from participating in the same European competition. At that time, Lyon also qualified for the Europa League with his sixth place in Ligue 1. Crystal Palace saw a turnaround, because Lyon was ordered to be demoted to the French Ligue 2 due to financial problems and was disqualified from the European War. However, Lyon's appeal was successful and his European war qualification was restored.

Because Lyon is better than Crystal Palace in the league (sixth in Ligue 1) than Crystal Palace (12th in the Premier League), according to the rules, Lyon has priority in qualifying. Therefore, Crystal Palace was relegated to the European Union, and its position in the UEFA Cup was replaced by Nottingham Forest.

Crystal Palace Club appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sports, on the grounds that there is inconsistency in the application of multiple club ownership rules, and that although Tector holds a high shareholding ratio, it has limited impact on club operations. But CAS finally maintained UEFA's original judgment.

Subsequent schedule

According to the ruling, Crystal Palace will participate in the European Union play-offs, and the opponent is the winner between Norwegian team Fredericksta and Danish team Midirant. The game will have two home and away games. Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest is expected to enter the Europa League main stage with Aston Villa.