New Delhi, March 31 -- A commercial court in France dismissed Welsh club Cardiff's claims for compensation in the death of soccer player Emiliano Sala in a ruling issued Monday, more than seven years after the plane crash that killed the Argentine forward.

In a long-running legal dispute, Cardiff was seeking more than 120 million euros ($138 million) from the player's former team Nantes following a series of previous legal setbacks for the Welsh club. Rulings by FIFA, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Switzerland's supreme court have gone against Cardiff in its legal dispute with Nantes since Sala died in January 2019.

The court in the western French city ruled that the Ligue 1 club was not at fault in relation to the flight and th...