The Palestine Football Association (PFA) files an appeal to the world’s top sports court, seeking to force FIFA to rule on the future of Israeli clubs playing in the West Bank.
The complaint to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is aimed at voiding a FIFA resolution, passed at its Congress last month, to push back a decision on the Israeli clubs until March 2018 at the latest.
The PFA argues that the presence of six Israeli clubs on its territory is in breach of FIFA statutes, which forbids another member association playing on another territory without permission.
Palestinians hold banners as they demonstrate in the center of Ramallah, demanding the suspension of Israel from FIFA, May 20, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
The Palestinians had called for a resolution stating that as a full FIFA member the PFA has the right to block Israeli teams from playing on its land.
In its CAS appeal, the PFA called for FIFA’s postponement decision to be declared “null and void” and that “FIFA be ordered to immediately vote” on the issue, the Lausanne-based court said in a statement.
— AFP
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