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RFE/RL: Court rejects Serbia’s challenge to Kosovo’s UEFA membership

Published Jan. 25, 2017 at 11:30 am

Football players of FC Hajvalia warm up during a training session near Kishnica, in the district of Pristina on May 12, 2016. With 141 votes in favour and 23 against FIFA Congress granted on May 13, 2016 membership to Kosovo's Football Federation, a second big news this month for Kosovo Football after the new country was admitted ten days ago as the new member of UEFA.

Photo by AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected an appeal by Serbia’s soccer federation against Kosovo joining the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

The ruling on Jan. 24 by the court in Lausanne, Switzerland, says Kosovo met the standard of UEFA entry rules because it is “recognized by the majority of the United Nations member states as an ‘independent state.'”