Mallorca expelled from Europe

At 1:50pm today, Real Mallorca received an official notification from UEFA that the club has been expelled from this season’s Europa League. The notification gave no reason for the decision, instead just stated that they have decided the club would not be admitted to the competition.

The club have announced their surprise at UEFA’s decision following the granting of the UEFA licence and the court order which requested the club was not removed from the competition. Since then, the club were also included on the UEFA website as a participant. But yesterday the club started to receive communication which suggested that UEFA had backtracked once more and, in their final decision, will refuse to give the club a place in the competition.

Alemany has prepared for this scenario, however. Club officials have stated on many occasions that if the club lost in the offices what they earned on the pitch, they would take the issue to court.

UEFA has given the Islanders 3 days to appeal. Any appeal would be, ofcourse, likely to fail. And the unfortunate thing is that any lawsuit, if successful, would only really see compensation given rather than the club readmitted due to the likely timescale of such an event.