{"id":23336,"date":"2020-07-14T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:38:38","slug":"court-of-arbitration-overturn-manchester-citys-champions-league-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/07\/14\/court-of-arbitration-overturn-manchester-citys-champions-league-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Arbitration Overturn Manchester City&#8217;s Champions League Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has officially overturned Manchester City&#8217;s two-year ban from the UEFA Champions League, allowing the side to participate in the continental competition next season.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2018-19 Premier League champions Manchester City were given a major boost yesterday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned their two-year ban from the UEFA Champions League, following an appeal from the club.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City were being investigated under UEFA&#8217;s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations for reportedly &#8220;disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions,&#8221; as per the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>While the court did find that Manchester City did not comply with certain UEFA regulations, they argued that &#8220;most of the alleged breaches&#8230;were either not established or time-barred,&#8221; occurring before the time period in which FFP could be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Manchester City&#8217;s fine has been reduced from \u20ac30m to \u20ac10m as per the court&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>With the side now guaranteed to finish second in the Premier League this season, Manchester City will compete in next years&#8217; Champions League, and still have unfinished business in the current campaign as they await a second-leg Round of 16 match against Real Madrid when the competition resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has officially overturned Manchester City&#8217;s two-year ban from the UEFA Champions League, allowing the side to participate in the continental competition next season.\u00a0 The 2018-19 Premier League champions Manchester City were given a major boost yesterday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned their two-year ban from the UEFA Champions League, following an appeal from the club. Manchester City were being investigated under UEFA&#8217;s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations for reportedly &#8220;disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions,&#8221; as per the BBC. While the court did find that Manchester City did not comply with certain UEFA regulations, they argued that &#8220;most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/07\/14\/court-of-arbitration-overturn-manchester-citys-champions-league-ban\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Court of Arbitration Overturn Manchester City&#8217;s Champions League Ban&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":23343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1639],"tags":[2172,359,2145],"class_list":["post-23336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-financial-fair-play","tag-manchester-city","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23344,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions\/23344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}