On Monday, Manchester City won their legal battle against English Premier League Associated Party Transaction Rules.
The committee blocked two of the Citizens' sponsorship deals from going through which was deemed unlawful by a tribunal.
Manchester City said in a statement: "Following today's publication of the Rule X Arbitral Tribunal Award, Manchester City Football Club thanks the distinguished members of the Arbitral Tribunal for their work and considerations and welcomes their findings."
The Associated Party Transaction (APT) didn't find any unlawful acts and the Premier League's decisions on two specific MCFC sponsorship transactions have been set aside.
The Tribunal found that the original APT rules and the adjusted APT Rules violate UK competition law and violate the requirements of procedural fairness.
The rulling said: "The Premier League was found to have abused its dominant position and the Tribunal has determined both that the rules are structurally unfair and that the Premier League was specifically unfair in how it applied those rules to the Club in practice. The tribunal also claimed that the Premier League had reached the decisions in a procedurally unfair manner,"
"The rules were found to be discriminatory in how they operate, because they deliberately excluded shareholder loans. As well as these general findings on legality, the Tribunal has set aside specific decisions of the Premier League to restate the fair market value of two transactions entered into by the Club," it continued
On the other hand, the English Premier League welcomed the tribunal's findings, "which endorsed the overall objectives, framework and decision-making of the APT system … (but did) identify a small number of discrete elements of the rules which do not, in their current form, comply with competition and public law requirements".
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