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Twente stay in Eredivisie after winning appeal

Xinhua, June 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

FC Twente remains in the highest league of the Netherlands, the Eredivisie, after the appeals committee of the Dutch football association voided the forcible relegation.

The licence committee of the Dutch football association KNVB had proposed to revoke the professional license due to financial mismanagement and that at the same time a new licence would be issued. With this new license Twente could return at the lowest professional level, which is the Jupiler League, the second level.

Afterwards Twente went to court for a ruling in the case and the club from Enschede also appealed to the appeals committee of the KNVB. One week ago the court in Utrecht had concluded that the license committee was right.

The license committee and the judge came to the conclusion that the financial acts of Twente in recent years justified to revoke the license, but also found that the efforts in the last few months to clean up justified to retain a new license.

The appeals committee had a different opinion, thought the irregularities did not match the punishment and only gave the club from Enschede a fine of 181,000 euros (204,000 U.S. dollars). The appeals verdict is binding which means Twente stay in the Eredivisie.

The outcome also means that De Graafschap, which finished 17th in the Eredivisie last season and lost the promotion/relegation play-offs, will definitely relegate to the second level. Endit