Legia Warsaw have submitted their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) after losing their Champions League place to Celtic. The Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear Legia Warsaw's appeal against Champions League exclusion on Monday.
Legia Warsaw to learn Champions League fate on Monday
The Polish club beat Celtic 6-1 on aggregate in the third qualifying round but were found to have fielded an ineligible player, Bartosz Bereszynski, as a late substitute in the second leg.
Uefa subsequently punished Legia Warsaw by awarding a 3-0 second-leg win to Celtic by default for that match, putting Celtic through on away goals to the playoff round, the first-leg of which is due to take place against Slovenian side Maribor on Wednesday.
UEFA's appeals body upheld the decision by its disciplinary body to award Celtic the 3-0 second-leg win on Thursday, prompting Legia Warsaw to appeal to Cas.
Legia said they would take their case further, but it appeared they had failed to lodge the appeal by the end of business on Friday, only for the story to take another twist.
CAS said in a statement: "The Court of Arbitration for Sport registered today at 17:30 a statement of appeal filed by the Polish club Legia Warszawa against the decision of the UEFA appeals body confirming the result 3-0 (forfeit) in favour of Celtic FC against Legia in the second leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.
"The UEFA considered that Legia had fielded an ineligible player (Bartosz Bereszynski) during the match.
"Legia requests urgent provisional measures from CAS allowing the Polish club to participate in the play-offs of the Champions League (20 & 26 August 2014).
"More generally, the club requests that the UEFA decision be set aside and that all sanctions against the club and the player Bereszynski be annulled.
"The CAS has immediately initiated an arbitration procedure and the respondents UEFA and Celtic FC have been invited to file written observations. A decision on request for provisional measures is likely to be issued on Monday August 18 around 18:00 (Swiss time)."
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