{"id":418806,"date":"2011-05-06T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/birmingham-city-awarded-uefa-licence-to-participate-in-europa-league\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:27:00","slug":"birmingham-city-awarded-uefa-licence-to-participate-in-europa-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/birmingham-city-awarded-uefa-licence-to-participate-in-europa-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City awarded Uefa licence to participate in Europa League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Mike Allen<\/h3>\n<h4>6 May 2011 18:27:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.8804934464\">\n<div readability=\"14.582278481\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup : Stephen Carr - Alex McLeish\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/125600\/125625_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carling Cup : Stephen Carr &#8211; Alex McLeish<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/103\/birmingham-city\">Birmingham City<\/a> have confirmed they have been awarded a licence to play in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2915\/europa-league\">Europa League<\/a> next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blues qualified for the competition after their League Cup final win over Arsenal, but doubts had emerged about getting the licence due to question marks over the club\u2019s finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Birmingham\u2019s acting chairman Peter Pannu has now confirmed the club has received the Uefa licence, allowing the team to participate in European football next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis means we can all focus on what are really exciting times for the club,\u201d Pannu told the club\u2019s official website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have three important Premier League games remaining and we can take this good news into them \u2013 starting at Newcastle on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThen we can all look forward to competing in the Europa League alongside the continent&#8217;s finest clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBeing granted the licence \u2013 which we were always confident of achieving \u2013 will put to rest once and for all some of the scare mongering that has surrounded the club.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/06\/2474236\/birmingham-city-awarded-uefa-licence-to-participate-in\" title=\"Birmingham City awarded Uefa licence to participate in Europa League\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham City awarded Uefa licence to participate in Europa League<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Mike Allen 6 May 2011 18:27:00 Carling Cup : Stephen Carr &#8211; Alex McLeish Related Links Teams Birmingham City have confirmed they have been awarded a licence to play in the Europa League next season. Blues qualified for the competition after their League Cup final win over Arsenal, but doubts had emerged about getting the licence due to question marks over the club\u2019s finances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Birmingham City awarded Uefa licence to participate in Europa League - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/birmingham-city-awarded-uefa-licence-to-participate-in-europa-league\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Birmingham City awarded Uefa licence to participate in Europa League - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Mike Allen 6 May 2011 18:27:00 Carling Cup : Stephen Carr - Alex McLeish Related Links Teams Birmingham City have confirmed they have been awarded a licence to play in the Europa League next season. 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