Officially Girona has finished in third place of the Spanish championship, and the reward for that is a direct participation in the main phase of the Champions league 2024-25 season. However, its debut performance at the tournament for the next football year may be in danger, only if...
Currently the above club and Manchester city are the only who have qualified for the mentioned competition. These two are owned by "City group football" from Abu Dhabi, who have shares of 47 percent in the first and 100 percent at the second club. Now, the basic rule is perfectly clear: because it is forbidden for one consortium to have two clubs in the same event one of them has to be sacrificed, and the unlikely pick falls to Girona.
The current owners have a deadline until 03 June to dispose the shares to an independent third party to (just) 10 percent or to sell them to a blind trust fund which will appoint the European football organization. If this is not done by the given date, then the club will be automatically transferred to the second competition by significance (Europa league).
Fifteen days later is the draw for the first elimination round so by then we are going to find out in which tournament would compete.
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