A official statement from UEFA confirmed that Crystal Palace had lost its capacity to attend the Europa League. There are up to 4 Premier League teams that can benefit from this decision of UEFA.
After winning the first title in the history of the club with the historic victory at the FA Cup final against Man City in May, Crystal Palace won a capacity to attend the Europa League in the 2025/26 season.
However, the fact that they participated in Europe's second -class tournament was immediately suspected of owning many clubs, when the former major shareholder John Textor also held control at the French Lyon.
After confirming that Lyon had maintained his position in Ligue 1, UEFA announced that Crystal Palace would be flaving to the Conference League, and this could be good news for 4 Premier League teams.
No club is more happy than Nottingham Forest, the team will occupy the position of Palace in the Europa League as the second British club to attend this tournament. Currently, there are two teams from the Premier League that is granted one in the Europa League, with the Aston Villa that has won the rest after finishing at the 6th place in the Premier League.
Forest will replace Palace in the Europa League after finishing at the 7th place on the Premier League rankings, which means that their attendance of the Conference League will now belong to Crystal Palace.
However, Forest is not the only club that can benefit from Palace's fact that this news will definitely weaken the London's hope in keeping their star players.
Many key players of Palace have been contacted with big transfer cases in the summer. With the contracts for Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez have been completed, Liverpool transferred interest to Marc Guhi, considering him a potential replacement for Ibrahima Konate.
The same thing can be talked about Eberechi Eze, who was strongly contacted with the transfer to Arsenal, after Mikel Arteta completed the transfer of Kepa Arrizabalaga, Martin Zubendi, Christian Norgaard and Noni Madueke.
But not only the Champions League teams can take advantage of the current weak position of Palace, when MU is following striker Jean-Philippe Mateta.
