Good News for Man Utd & City? UEFA Relaxes Ownership Rules After Palace's Europa League Fiasco | OneFootball

European football’s governing body prepares a major rule change following last season’s MCO chaos

Good News for Man Utd & City? UEFA Relaxes Ownership Rules After Palace's Europa League Fiasco

UEFA's preparing to relax its strict multi club ownership MCO regulations.

The move follows last season’s high profile case in which Crystal Palace were expelled from the Europa League after missing key compliance deadline.

Currently clubs must declare & resolve any MCO conflicts by 1 March. Palace who won the FA cup failed to do so due to shared ownership links with Olympique Lyonnais through investor John Textor resulting in their demotion to the Conference League & Nottingham Forest taking their place.

Under the proposed reforms, clubs would still need to notify UEFA of any ownership conflicts by 1 Mar.

However they would then have until early Jun just before the qualifying round draws to resolve them.

The adjustment aims to align regulatory deadlines with the football calendar and prevent cases like Palace’s which cost the club estimated 20 million sterling pound.

Palace chairman Steve Parish called the current system "crazy rule" arguing that UEFA must adapt or risk "one of the greatest injustices in european football"..