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Newport Association Football Club Ltd and others v Football Association of Wales Ltd

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273:. He ruled on 11 April that the FAW's ruling had been a restraint of trade but considered whether this was a justified one. He ruled that it was not as it was not necessary to protect recognition of the new League of Wales by UEFA and the FAW ruling was done specifically to get the clubs to play in the Welsh league system. He also ruled that UEFA had never offered an opinion on the matter, the FAW had provided no evidence that UEFA would discriminate against Welsh clubs and the fact that the FAW had permitted the clubs to continue to play in the English leagues had not prevented UEFA recognising the league. Blackburne recognised that there was a genuine risk that the clubs could cease to exist, if they played another season away from home, due to the financial burdens. He ruled that the FAW's ban on playing in Wales was an "unlawful and unreasonable restraint of trade" and granted judgment in favour of Newport and the other clubs, allowing them to play at home in Wales. He granted the injunction to prohibit the FAW from banning clubs playing in Wales if they played in the English league. The breach of contract compensation claims were denied. 35: 1812: 1310: 289:(The FA) that all three were banned from football indefinitely with the club officials behind the lawsuit all receiving two year bans. In December 1995, following a request from the FAW "in the interests of peace", the bans were later rescinded in favour of a requirement that the clubs join the League of Wales by 1997, which never occurred. In 1997, FIFA did not attempt to enforce the requirement. 1334: 1298: 1322: 200:
legal reasoning for being able to do the action was not revealed though it was stated that "it was designed to promote the League of Wales, despite no contractual obligations between the FAW and Newport requiring member clubs to join existing." The action resulted in Newport having to groundshare with Moreton Town F.C. in
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that the FAW's decision to ban them from playing in Wales was an "unreasonable" restraint of trade and requested £300,000 (equivalent to £728,444 in 2023) each in compensation for breach of contract. The clubs stated "they would not be able to continue to operate due to the expense of not playing
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and invited Newport to join. The club declined and although the FAW had granted permission for them to continue to play in the English leagues, they banned them and any other Welsh club playing in the English leagues below the Football League from playing their scheduled matches at home in Wales. The
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ground as the council viewed the new company as a continuation of the old and asserted they owed back rent for the ground. Whereas the FAW ruled they were a new club with no connection to Newport County. The club's stated aim was to regain Football League status, and as such, they started in the
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at home." The FAW responded saying the court had no jurisdiction to grant an injunction without the declaratory judgement. The FAW claimed that the ban was needed in order to protect Welsh clubs' representation in order to partake in
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could not be punished for breaching FA third-party ownership rules as the FAW had no such rules. Following the revelation, The FA would assert disciplinary jurisdiction over Welsh clubs playing in the English Football League.
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Though the clubs played in leagues governed by The FA, jurisdiction for disciplinary matters relating for the Welsh clubs in English leagues remained with the FAW. The situation continued until 2011 when it was revealed that
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yet were allowed to play the club's home games in Wales and had permission to continue to play in Wales if they were relegated. This was due to Merthyr Tidfil being successful in an independent FAW appeal.
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in what had been stated as the first occasion where an individual football club has taken its football association to court. The club cited inconsistencies in application as Merthyr Tydfil played in the
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After an attempt at obtaining arbitration that failed and due to the excessive costs of playing 80 miles (130 kilometres) away in England, Newport sued the FAW on the grounds of
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Newport would subsequently repurchase the trademark for their previous club's name and would compete as Newport County A.F.C., winning promotion to
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run European competitions. The court had previously ruled in August 1994 that it did have the power to issue such an injunction if it wished.
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announced that they would seek to ban the 3 clubs from playing as a punishment for suing the FAW, 10 days after the ruling. FIFA informed
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in April 1995. The clubs requested an urgent injunction to allow them to play in Wales during the case and sought a
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allowed eventual promotion back to that level and as Wales had historically had no national league.
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Newport County A.F.C. were originally founded in 1912 and were one of a number of football clubs in
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Preventing Welsh clubs that play in England from playing in Wales is an unlawful restraint of trade
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Despite the judgment in favour of Newport, the world football governing body
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Mr Justice Blackburne considered the case based upon the case of
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The case was heard at the High Court in London before Mr Justice
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preventing the FAW stopping Newport from playing in Wales.
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Index


High Court of Justice
William Blackburne
High Court of Justice
Newport A.F.C.
Football Association of Wales
English football pyramid
League of Wales
restraint of trade
injunction
industrial South Wales
Southern Football League
1919–20 season
Third Division
the Football League
phoenix club
Newport City Council
Somerton Park
Hellenic League
English football league system
League of Wales
Gloucestershire
Bangor City
Barry Town
Caernarfon Town
Colwyn Bay
Merthyr Tydfil
Newtown
Rhyl
restraint of trade

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