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Author: conscription
Date: 13-08-2018, 14:14
| Have there been known cases of the rule being ignored?
UEFA claimed that PFC CSKA-Sofia can't participate in 2018/19 but now they do, so the rule was ignored here, am I mistaken?
Also, what exactly is considered a new club? If the owners, the name and the roster of the club is changed is it still considered the same club? |
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Author: amenina
Date: 14-08-2018, 07:47
| From the "UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations":
https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Tech/uefaorg/General/02/56/20/15/
2562015_DOWNLOAD.pdf
Chapter 2: Licence applicant and licence
Article 12 - Definition of licence applicant and three-year rule
2 The membership and the contractual relationship (if any) must have lasted – at the start of the licence season – for at least three consecutive years.
3 Any change to the legal form, legal group structure (including a merger with another entity or transfer of football activities to another entity) or identity (including headquarters, name or colours) of a licence applicant during this period to the detriment of the integrity of a competition or to facilitate the licence applicant’s qualification for a competition on sporting merit or its receipt of a licence is deemed as an interruption of membership or contractual relationship (if any) within the meaning of this provision.
ANNEX I: Exceptions policy
A. Principle
1. The UEFA administration or the UEFA Club Financial Control Body investigatory chamber may, in accordance with Article 4, grant exceptions on the following matters:
d) Non-applicability of the three-year rule defined in Article 12; |
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Author: amenina
Date: 14-08-2018, 08:00
| > Have there been known cases of the rule being ignored?
A recent case is FK Liepāja from Latvia. They replaced FK Liepājas Metalurgs in 2014, finished 4th that season and would have qualified for the Europa League, but could not get a license due to the three-year rule. Then they won the league in 2015 and qualified for the Champions League, but would not have been eligible based on the three-year rule. However, UEFA granted them an exception and they could play in the 2016-17 season.
> UEFA claimed that PFC CSKA-Sofia can't participate in 2018/19 but now they do, so the rule was ignored here, am I mistaken?
I am not familiar with their case so cannot answer here.
> Also, what exactly is considered a new club? If the owners, the name and the roster of the club is changed is it still considered the same club?
If the club has no administrative or financial problems prior to the sale (no re-structuring to avoid bankruptcy etc.), and the owners are not affiliated with any other club (no buying their way to a higher division or to Europe), then they are almost certainly allowed to play by UEFA. |
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Author: conscription
Date: 14-08-2018, 09:41
| Thanks, the CSKA-Sofia case seems to be similar to the one of the Latvian team, the rule was enforced for the first time but not for the second
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/news/170529.jpg |
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