AC Milan banned from Europa League next season SEE WHY?

Serie A giants Milan have been excluded from the Europa League this coming season.

The club finished fifth in the Italian top flight last season, which qualified them to enter the competition at the group stages.

However, the club has taken on catastrophic losses over the past three seasons, before the arrival of new owners - Elliot Management - meaning they have fallen foul of UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules.

Only this year, the club announced losses of £126million for the 2017-18 campaign. 

A ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed the decision. In it, it said: 'AC Milan is excluded from pariticipating in the UEFA Club Competitions of the sporting season 2019-20 as a consequence of the breach of FFP break-even obligations during the 2015-16, 2016-17 and the 2016-17, 20-17-18 monitoring periods.' 

As a result, Roma will now enter the group stages. Torino will now enter the play-off rounds.   

The decision  leaves new boss Marco Giampaolo to focus solely on a domestic front.