An Arbitration Tribunal has determined the effects of its first award published last year relating to Manchester City’s legal challenge of the Premier League’s previous Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules.
The Tribunal’s decision has found that the three narrow aspects of the old APT rules, previously found to be unlawful, cannot be separated from the rest of the previous rules as a matter of law. The result, the Tribunal has determined, is that the previous APT Rules, as a whole, are unenforceable.
However, the previous APT rules are no longer in place, as Clubs voted new APT rules into force in November 2024. This decision expressly does not impact the valid operation of the new rules.
The Tribunal has…