{"id":80627,"date":"2025-08-20T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:18:09","slug":"tottenham-will-eberechi-eze-be-cup-tied-for-champions-league-if-he-plays-in-conference-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80627\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham: Will Eberechi Eze be cup-tied for Champions League if he plays in Conference League?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newsletter_arsenal_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Arsenal Football Newsletter\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-fbFiXs buKFXK\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are committed to the team. The player gives 100 per cent because he is under contract. We don&#8217;t have to say thank you every day, he is getting a few pounds every week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Standard Sport unpacks the relevant regulations&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Why Eberechi Eze will not be cup-tied after facing Fredrikstad<\/p>\n<p>Eze\u2019s expected appearance in Fredrikstad, but this will not affect a future Champions League campaign with Tottenham, should he sign.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA regulations allow a player to represent more than one club per season in their competitions, but only under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>A player who appears in any qualifying or play-off round for any of UEFA\u2019s top three competitions may then represent a different side from the league phase of another European competition.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, as Crystal Palace\u2019s clash with Fredrikstad is a play-off, Eze will be eligible to represent another side from the league phase of the Champions  League, Europa League, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/conference-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conference League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Should he appear for Crystal Palace in the Conference League league phase, though, he would be unable to contest a European tie for another side in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey are committed to the team. The player gives 100 per cent because he is under contract. We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1669,41047,1003,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-80627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-conference-league","tag-eberechi-eze","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}