{"id":186342,"date":"2024-06-03T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/03\/uefa-make-decision-on-man-utd-europa-league-ban-report\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:26:13","slug":"uefa-make-decision-on-man-utd-europa-league-ban-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/03\/uefa-make-decision-on-man-utd-europa-league-ban-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA make decision on Man Utd Europa League ban \u2013 report \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester United will be allowed to compete in next season\u2019s Europa League despite concerns over Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS\u2019 ownership of fellow participants Nice, according to a report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils looked set for a 2024\/25 campaign without European football after finishing eighth in this year\u2019s Premier League \u2013 their lowest return in 34 years. However, their surprise victory against Manchester City in the FA Cup final booked them a Europa League spot.<\/p>\n<p>Reports last week claimed that United\u2019s place in the competition\u00a0was in jeopardy\u00a0as minority shareholder Ratcliffe is also the owner of French side Nice, who qualified for the Europa League thanks to a fifth-place finish in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA rules decree two teams under the same ownership cannot compete in the same competition, and as Nice had recorded a higher league finish, United were in danger of being relegated to the Conference League.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01hzejpz3683c5b2kaqr.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Alicia Ratcliffe\" title=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Alicia Ratcliffe\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Ratcliffe\u2019s ownership of Man Utd and Nice came into question \/ Marc Atkins\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>A statement from INEOS last week revealed a dialogue was ongoing with UEFA over the issue, and\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0now report that United and Nice will both be allowed to partake in the\u00a0Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA\u2019s Club Financial Control Board (CFCB) will confirm this decision over the next fortnight after the deadline for submissions for multi-club ownerships passed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>City\u00a0faced a similar problem to United with sister club Girona qualifying for next season\u2019s Champions League, though they too will be given the all-clear to compete together.<\/p>\n<p>However, UEFA are expected to inform\u00a0United\u00a0and City they will not be allowed such leeway in future instances. Current regulations decree two competing clubs cannot have over 30% of same ownership groups \u2013 Ratcliffe\u2019s stakes in United and Nice do not violate such rules, but City Football Group\u2019s ownership in Girona stands at 47%.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA may look to tighten these rules in future, as revealed in a leaked document seen by\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1717435571_369_image-55-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-873586\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United will be allowed to compete in next season\u2019s Europa League despite concerns over Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS\u2019 ownership of fellow participants Nice, according to a report. The Red Devils looked set for a 2024\/25 campaign without European football after finishing eighth in this year\u2019s Premier League \u2013 their lowest return in 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UEFA make decision on Man Utd Europa League ban \u2013 report \u2013 - 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\/2024\/06\/03\/uefa-make-decision-on-man-utd-europa-league-ban-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UEFA make decision on Man Utd Europa League ban \u2013 report \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United will be allowed to compete in next season\u2019s Europa League despite concerns over Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS\u2019 ownership of fellow participants Nice, according to a report. 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