December 14 – Ukraine have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against UEFA’s decision to award Switzerland a 3-0 walkover win in last month’s Nations League clash between the sides as a result of positive Covid-19 tests in the Ukrainian camp.
The Swiss had not won a single game on the pitch yet were awarded a 3-0 victory after the fixture was called off when the entire Ukrainian team were quarantined by local health authorities in Lucerne.
The decision lifted the Swiss, who had been in last place in their group, above Ukraine based on a tiebreaker of head-to-head results and relegated Ukraine from the competition’s top tier.
The Ukraine soccer federation later said its players tested negative on returning to Kyiv and said at the time that UEFA’s ruling constituted “a very dangerous precedent that strikes the principle of sport.”
The ruling followed a similar decision in awarding Romania a 3-0 win over Norway whose government barred the team from travelling to Bucharest.
In its appeal to CAS, the Ukrainians sought the drawing of lots to decide the result. CAS said Ukraine also requested that it considers asking UEFA to reschedule the game.
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