The objective is for the club to comply with UEFA rules and be able to play in the Champions League for the first time in history. Emblem is owned by the same owners as Manchester City
The City Football Group owns 13 clubs around the world, including Manchester City and Girona. As both teams will be in the next edition of the Champions League (the Spanish confirmed their qualification with a victory over Barcelona this Saturday) and UEFA does not allow two emblems with the same owner to participate in the same competition, the Catalan emblem must, for This means cutting off this connection with the group.
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Article 5.01 of the UEFA regulations, relating to the integrity of competitions, states: «No club participating in a UEFA club competition may, directly or indirectly: (…) have any power in the management, administration and/or sporting activities of any other club participating in a UEFA club competition.”
Now, according to the portal, Reliefthe main owners of Girona are: City Football Group (47%), a company managed by Sheikh Mansour, vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, Bolivian businessman Marcelo Claure (35%) and Pep Guardiola’s brother, Pere (16 %).
Therefore, Girona will have to carry out a restructuring in the near future to cut the connection with the City Football Group. The same newspaper says that this will be an amicable separation, to enable the club’s historic participation.
This is not a new topic concerning UEFA competitions. In the past, RB Leipzig and Salzburg (who both received investment from Red Bull) went through a similar process, which UEFA approved. And the teams even faced each other in the group stage of the Europa League, in the 2018/19 season.
