{"id":469577,"date":"2025-09-08T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=469577"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:17:16","slug":"premier-league-settles-legal-stoush-with-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=469577","title":{"rendered":"Premier League settles legal stoush with City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/manchester-city-1m1e\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Manchester City\">Manchester City<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/football\/premier-league\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Premier League\">Premier League<\/a> have reached a settlement regarding a legal challenge started by the club over the competition\u2019s new rules governing sponsorship deals.<\/p>\n<p>In February, City contested amendments made to the APT rules by Premier League clubs months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Those changes were forced on the league by an earlier legal challenge by City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-payne-haas-family-parents-issues-brother-death-brisbane-broncos-premiership-hunt-20250908-p5mth0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Haas lifts lid on family &#x27;chaos&#x27; in emotional interview\"><strong>Haas lifts lid on family &#x27;chaos&#x27; in emotional interview<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-stephen-crichton-jacob-kiraz-cameron-ciraldo-contract-extensions-canterbury-bulldogs-20250908-p5mtfe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Bulldogs pull off incredible coup on eve of NRL finals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news-2025-eddie-mcguire-comments-reacts-jeff-browne-article-relationship-commission-chairman-position-exclusive-comments-20250908-p5mtdz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>McGuire rips &#x27;rubbish&#x27; claims of soured friendship<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those rules are designed to ensure fair market value is applied to commercial deals with organisations closely aligned to club owners.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are intended to prevent deals such as sponsorships from being artificially inflated, which could undermine the league\u2019s financial rules.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"46699e64-ab07-49fa-81a3-f0edcea4b494\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/46699e64-ab07-49fa-81a3-f0edcea4b494\" alt=\"Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates scoring.\" data-width=\"3368\" data-height=\"1895\" \/><\/p>\n<p>City and the Premier League released statements at the same time Monday night saying they have \u201cagreed to terminate the proceedings&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis settlement brings an end to the dispute between the parties regarding the APT rules,\u201d their statements said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the settlement, Manchester City accepts that the current APT rules are valid and binding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Football&#x27;s new home, Stan Sport, is the only place<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/dqh2rv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>to watch the Premier League<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>, UEFA Champions League, Emirates FA Cup, WSL, European Qualifiers, J.League, NSWL, K League and FA Cup<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a separate legal case, City faces more than 100 charges of alleged financial breaches from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The case was heard by an independent commission between September and December last year but no verdict has been reached.<\/p>\n<p>City has always denied the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Manchester City and the Premier League have reached a settlement regarding a legal challenge started by the club over the competition\u2019s new rules governing sponsorship <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=469577\" title=\"Premier League settles legal stoush with City\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469580,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469577\/revisions\/469580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/469579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}