Lyon FC and Crystal Palace are owned by the same partnership group. They both qualify for the Europa League but due to the Multi- club ownership rules of UEFA both teams cannot play in the same competition if they are owned by the same group. One has to forfeit the competition for the other to play. Some people argue that Manchester City and Girona were allowed to play in the same UCL competition last season despite City football Group holding 44% in Girona shares and 100% in Manchester City, but the truth is that they placed their Girona shares on blind trust to be managed by an independent UEFA approved panel which secured compliance with UEFA rules and the both teams were allowed to play.
This indeed a very serious issues that calls for a greater concern and it will really be a bad idea if one of the clubs is out as a result of ownership issue. UEFA should try as much as they can to put things in place by balancing this. If man city was able to scale through similar thing, I believe that lyon and palace can still follow the same step that man city used and it will definitely work for them. So I see no reason why it shouldn't work for palace and Lyon. Rules are made for every body and not for some few person and rules should always be fair and offenders should always be treated equally, irrespective of connection
Maybe you didn't pay attention very well to my write-up, there's a reason Manchester City was allowed to participate alongside Girona in last year's UCL competition.
Below is the reason both participatedSome people argue that Manchester City and Girona were allowed to play in the same UCL competition last season despite City football Group holding 44% in Girona shares and 100% in Manchester City, but the truth is that they placed their Girona shares on blind trust to be managed by an independent UEFA approved panel which secured compliance with UEFA rules and the both teams were allowed to play.
They were not just allowed, but acted accordingly to fall under compliance. Maybe there would be a workaround for Palace and maybe Lyon's being demoted to Ligue2 due to financial challenges can be their lifeline.