Osasuna will not play in Europe next season. Despite having finished in seventh position in LaLiga, with a place that gave the right to dispute the Conference LeagueUEFA has ruled out the eligibility of the team and has left out the rojillos for the match fixing of the 2013-14 season in which former leaders of Osasuna were involved. This was confirmed by the Navarrese club in a statement in which it advances that it will deploy “all the legal instruments at its disposal” to combat the decision of the international organization.
“The UEFA Appeals Committee has made the decision today to leave Club Atlético Osasuna out of the 2023-2024 Conference League. The members of the UEFA Appeals Committee have not taken into account the allegations presented by the entity last Friday and have reaffirmed the initial opinion of the inspectors of the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee. The reasons why the Appeals Committee has decided to exclude Osasuna will be transferred to the entity in the coming days,” the statement says in its opening paragraph.
As the reddish club had not entered Europe since then, your eligibility process is ‘new’, for which reason its possible incorporation into the European competition has now been studied despite the fact that the facts are from almost a decade ago. And UEFA has decided not to allow Osasuna to enter the Conference, which opens the door to Athletic Club, eighth classified in LaLigato be the Spanish representative in the third continental competition.
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In the statement, Osasuna makes clear its indignation with the decision announced by UEFA: “Club Atlético Osasuna does not share UEFA’s criteria or the investigation of the case carried out at all and regrets the wrong message that UEFA sends to the world of football punishing those who denounce corruption and prosecute it in court.”
The statement from the rojillo club ends like this: “Finally, Club Atlético Osasuna will continue to deploy all the legal instruments at its disposal to stand up to UEFA and put an end to what it considers a serious violation of its rights.”
