As of the news today, Crystal Palace has been demoted from the Europa League to the Conference. We still remember how the qualified by beating Manchester City in the FA cup final to get the Europa League ticket. But the twist here is that, they cannot since Lyon too will be playing in the same Europa League. John Textor owns shares in both Palace and Lyon, (I think he owns majority shares) the thus bridges UEFA multi club ownership rules Which simply states that Clubs with the same ownership cannot play in the same competition. Crystal Palace might go to court for this, lol.
The ownership issue that is sticking to the surface at this time makes Crystal Palace inflamed where now actually the competition in sight they have to be eliminated and replaced by Nottingham to be in the Europa League in the coming season.
But at least the Conference League is still there for them even though when compared to the Europa League in the end the Conference League is more below it but at least by being in a smaller competition their chances are still a little there.
Well regrettably enough they should have realized this from the start and provided certainty about ownership issues so that something like this did not happen, but now the decision has been made and at this time Crystal Palace can't do anything because UEFA's decision now seems inviolable again.