Court dismisses Cardiff’s £104m claim against Nantes over Emiliano Sala’s death

• French court rules against club in damages claim

• Sala died in 2019 plane crash on way to Wales

A commercial court in France has dismissed Cardiff’s claim for more than £100m compensation after the death of Emiliano Sala. Seven years after the plane crash that killed Sala, Cardiff were seeking €120m (£104m) for loss of income and other damages from the player’s former team Nantes.

Rulings by Fifa, the court of arbitration for sport and Switzerland’s supreme court have gone against Cardiff in their legal dispute with Nantes since Sala died in January 2019.