Champions League - UEFA readmit Porto

Eurosport - Thu, 19 Jun 15:30:00 2008

Porto will be allowed to compete in next season's Champions League despite an ongoing investigation into the alleged bribery of referees.

FOOTBALL, Lisandro Lopez, Porto - 0

European football's governing body said that Porto would be admitted into the competition because the investigation in Portugal had not yet been concluded.

UEFA spokesman William Gaillard added that "any sanctions brought against them (by UEFA) will apply from the following season".

UEFA had originally thrown Porto out of next season's Champions League after Portuguese football authorities took action against the club last month.

On Friday UEFA's own appeals body ordered the organisation's disciplinary panel to annul that decision pending a separate appeals process in Portugal.

The Disciplinary Commission of the Professional Portuguese Football League stripped Porto of six points and fined the club 150,000 euros (£118,000) after its probe of two matches in 2003-04.

Reuters

Comment 1 - 8 of 8

Sort comments by: Most recent | Most rated

  1. isto e uma vergonha so em portugal.devia de ir para a 2 liga

    From shaz, on Thu 26 Jun 12:12AM

  2. uefa are spineless bast@rds

    From Timabhouy, on Mon 23 Jun 5:51PM

  3. FIFA can't keep doing this.First of all it happened with AC Milan and now it's happened with Porto.

    From Justin, on Sat 21 Jun 8:16AM

  4. Amazing. It appears that UEFA checked their records and discovered that Porto weren't an English club. If it had been one of ours, they probably would have banned our entire league.

    From TheBrotha, on Fri 20 Jun 2:28AM

  5. oh man , too bad there in, its sad cuz i really wanted ac milan to get back in, after all they are fifa highest ranking club!

    From HOSHO K, on Mon 16 Jun 10:28PM

  6. I think they should play in cl they r a good team with great players like Quaresma,Lopez,Bruno Alves all good players

    From gunnerz, on Fri 13 Jun 3:13PM

  7. we`ll be there no matter what..

    From lima26_uk, on Fri 13 Jun 9:58AM

  8. diving cheats

    From Paddy, on Mon 9 Jun 7:53PM
Sort comments by: Most recent | Most rated

Not already a Yahoo! user ? to get a free Yahoo! Account