Manchester City are facing a tense moment due to the alleged financial irregularities committed by the club between 2009 and 2023, which has generated several hypotheses about the outcome of this trial.
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The British newspaper “The Telegraph” published a news item on Thursday with the headline “Manchester City could be banned from all competitions, not just the Premier League”which begs the question: Can City be banned from all domestic and international competitions if they are guilty of all 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League?
City face a trial starting on Monday that will last around ten weeks, the outcome of which will be known in early 2025 and which could lead to anything from acquittal to a fine, loss of points and even relegation.
“We are not lawyers. Erling Haaland is not a lawyer, no. We do not talk about that. We will accept the verdict of the independent panel. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty,” said coach Pep Guardiola recently on the case, trying to shield the team from legal difficulties.
Outside of all competitions?
This situation has given rise to all kinds of speculation and one of them is how it will affect the rest of the competitions: the FA Cup, the League Cup, the FIFA Club World Cup and the Champions League.
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In the case of the Champions League, entry into the competition depends on national qualification – finishing among the top four – and the granting of an invitation or licence by UEFA. This invitation is rarely a cause for dispute, but not so long ago there was a question as to whether UEFA was going to grant it to Barcelona or not due to the ‘Negreira case’ last season. In the end, the Blaugrana team played in the top continental competition.
In the FA Cup, the statutes state that “if a club is admitted to this competition but is subsequently eliminated from the league in which it competes, the Professional Game Board may expel the team from the competition.”
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This council is made up of representatives from the Premier League and the English Football League, the body that operates from the Second to the Fourth English division. For the League Cup, the participating clubs are those that are in the EFL and the Premier League, so City, if not in either of these competitions, could be left out.
And finally there is the FIFA Club World Cupwhich begins its first edition in June next year and whose regulations are not public, so it is not possible to know how FIFA will act in the event that a team is sanctioned in its own league.
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This context shows that City’s expulsion from all competitions is, for now, just one of the many hypotheses surrounding the City trial. Until the independent commission handling the case makes a decision and the possible appeal is resolved, if there is one, it will be impossible to respond with greater precision about the future that awaits the champion of the last four leagues.
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