Vitesse is Allowed to Play Professional Football This Season After All. The Court of Appeals in Arnhem Ruled in Favor of the Club on Wednesday in An Appeal Against the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association).
Accordance to the court, it is “plausible” that vitesse will win an earlier filed substantive action against the KNVB. That procedure would not serve at the earliest in a couple of months, but vitesse requested an earlier ruling in a so-called accelerated appeal.
The Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeals Comes to this Conclusion the Decisions of the KNVB “Were Tasks Under High Time Pressure and Therefore Were Not Established with the Greatest Possible Care.”
“That care was necessary because it groups the most far-streaking sanction for a professional football club,” the court writes in an explanation. The KNVB is Therefore Ordered to Imediately Allow Vitesse to Participate in Professional Football.
The Court Says it also views Some of Vitesse’s Violations Differently than the Licensing Committee and Appeals Committee of the KNVB. How That Works Exactly Will Become Clear later. The Court Has Only published a letter Explanation.
Verdict is a big surprise
The Court Ruling is a Big Surprise. Vitesse Suffered A Resounding Defeat in Preliminary Relief Proceedings More Than Three Weeks AGO. Experts Gave Vitesse Little Chance for an Appeal, because the court would only look if the KNVB had followed its own rules.
It is not Yet Clear When Vitesse May Participate in The Kitchen Champion Division (Second-Tier League). The Competition is Already Four Rounds Underway. The KNVB, which can still be appeal to the supreme court, has not yet reacted to the ruling.
Thus, The Crisis at Vitesse Takes an Unprecedented Turn. In July, The Club had to hand in ITS Professional License to the KNVB Due to a Pattern of Deception, Circumvention, and Undernmining of the Licensing System and Threateded to Disappear After 133 Years.