MADRID — Malaga will be free to compete in the Europa League next season after UEFA announced Wednesday that the European ban imposed on the Spanish club had been lifted. The Costa del Sol club, which reached the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League, had been given a one-year ban by UEFA due to financial irregularities but had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). There was no reprieve, however, for Rapid Bucharest of Romania which was fined 100,000 euros ($128,700) and excluded from competing in the next UEFA competition it qualified for in the next three seasons. Ukraine's Arsenal Kiev was also fined 75,000 euros. — Reuters