Crystal Palace will meet UEFA big wigs in Switzerland on Tuesday to discuss concerns over whether the club can compete in next season's .

American John Textor owns around 43 per cent of the winners and is the majority shareholder at Lyon, who have qualified for the same competition.

But UEFA rules state that clubs with the same owners are not permitted to participate in the same competition.

Palace are confident that they will be cleared to compete after stating their case in Nyon. But recent precedent suggests that they must prove no resources or personnel are shared between the clubs.

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In the season just passed both and Nice, and and Girona had to ensure "significant changes" were made for all four to be permitted entry to the Europa League and .

That included appointing an independent trustee, supervised by UEFA's Club Financial Control Body, which had "the effective control and decision-making of" Nice and Girona.

Directors were also forced to resign from the clubs boards while the clubs were banned from transferring players to each other or share commercial agreements or scouting databases.

Rules state that if Palace are unable to meet UEFA's demands, then the club would drop down to the Conference League.

But that is complicated by Brondby, which is owned by another of the Selhurst Park club’s minority owners David Blitzer, already qualifying for that competition via the Danish league and that ranking takes precedence over teams who qualify by winning a domestic cup competition.

If Palace were to be denied entry their bitter rivals would find themselves in the Conference League on account of finishing ninth in the with promoted to the Europa.

Forest owner Evangelinos Marinakis has already appointed a trustee after they sealed a return to Europe for the first time since 1995-96.

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