Miami FC owner Riccardo Silva and Kingston Stockade founder Dennis Crowley have issued a response after their two-and-a-half-year long lawsuit calling for promotion and relegation in American soccer failed in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The two parties originally filed the lawsuit against FIFA, Concacaf and the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) in 2017, citing the inability for lower-division clubs to fight their way up the American soccer system through promotion and relegation.
The lawsuit cited Article 9 of FIFA statutes that states that ''a club's entitlement to take part in a domestic league championship shall depend principally on sporting merit", although FIFA also notes that participation ''may be subject to other criteria".