The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has filed an appeal with the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over a decision by the European football's governing body UEFA to admit the Football Association of Kosovo as its member despite the fact that it does not meet the requirements set out in the UEFA statute.

Gabriel Lansky, a partner in the law firm Lansky, Ganzger & Partner, which is representing the FSS in the dispute, has confirmed this to Tanjug. “Our law firm is representing the interests of the FSS against this decision and that is why we have submitted an appeal to the CAS,” Lansky said, and added that UEFA has violated its own statute, under which only football associations of UN member states can be UEFA members. “As we know, Kosovo is not a member of the UN, so the Football Association of Kosovo cannot be a UEFA member either,” Lansky said.

Certain interest groups had sought to amend the UEFA statute, but the attempt failed, so the decision on Kosovo's membership was in violation of the statute, said Lansky, and voiced his confidence that the FSS will win in the dispute since the UEFA decision is illegal.