Michel Platini has lost his appeal against a 90-day FIFA suspension, but the ban will not be extended.
The UEFA President was banned over an alleged “disloyal payment” received from FIFA chief Sepp Blatter.
The former midfielder is a candidate to be Blatter’s successor, but will not be able to campaign until his suspension is lifted.
Michel Platini has lost his appeal against a 90-day FIFA suspension, but the ban will not be extended.
The UEFA President was banned over an alleged “disloyal payment” received from FIFA chief Sepp Blatter.
The former midfielder is a candidate to be Blatter’s successor, but will not be able to campaign until his suspension is lifted.
Platini appealed the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but it was this morning confirmed that his suspension will stand.
“The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld the request for provisional measures filed by Michel Platini requesting that his 90 day provisional suspension from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international levels be lifted until a final decision on the merits of the dispute is taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee,” the verdict read.
“The CAS panel determined that maintaining the provisional suspension for the remainder of the 90 days does not cause irreparable harm to Michel Platini at this point in time.
“Indeed, the CAS panel has noted that, at the hearing of 8 December 2015, FIFA’s representatives confirmed FIFA’s assurances, expressed earlier that the FIFA Ethics Committee would render its final decision on the merits on or before 5 January 2016, i.e before the provisional suspension comes to an end.
“The CAS panel also emphasised that, even if the ban were lifted at this time, such measure would not give any guarantee to Michel Platini that the FIFA ad hoc committee would validate his candidature for the FIFA election before 5 January 2016.
“However, the CAS panel considered that the situation would change if FIFA were to extend the provisional suspension for any period up to 45 days, on the basis of ‘exceptional circumstances’.
“The Panel found that such an extension would constitute an undue and unjustified restriction of Michel Platini’s right of access to justice, cause irreparable harm to him and also tip the balance of interest test in his favour.
“As a consequence, the CAS panel ordered FIFA not to extend the current provisional suspension imposed on Michel Platini.”