In light of Everton breaching the Premier League's Profitability & Sustainability Rules, Burnley are looking for £50million-plus in compensation after claiming loss of revenue as a result of their relegation to the Championship.
The hearing starts this week at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London, 2 years after Everton were controversially handed successive points deductions for breaches of PSR over 3-year rolling periods ending in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Burnley were relegated from the Premier League in 2021-22 when they finished just 4 points behind Everton in 18th place. Had Everton's 6-point deduction occurred during the 2021-22 campaign, Burnley would have been safe with the Toffees relegated in their stead.
Under the Premier League's rules, a PSR breach is deemed to confer a sporting advantage, the penalty incurred being a points deduction (although other punishments could have been decided upon by the Independent Commission hearing the original cases).
They did not award or recommend compensation to other affected clubs in the decisions that resulted in points deductions for Everton; however, such compensation claims were green-lighted as a part of a pre-hearing back in May 2023 where Burnley and four other clubs failed in their bid to gain participation in the hearings of the PSR charges against Everton.
But the clubs were given a window of 28 days after the decision on Everton's breaches to assert their wishes to pursue a claim for compensation under Rule W.51.5 of the 2022-23 Premier League Handbook, which allows the Commission to order a club guilty of breaches to pay compensation unlimited in amount to any person or to any club.
