Partizan Belgrade’s three-year European ban is lifted by CAS

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned Partizan Belgrade’s threeyear ban from European club football after the Serbian club presented new evidence to show they have settled their national tax debts.

Partizan, currently second in the Serbian league, were given the ban by European football’s governing body Uefa in December for breaching club licensing and financial fair play rules, which state all clubs must be up to date on tax payments. But, according to a statement from CAS, sport’s highest court, the club presented “new evidence which clarified FK Partizan’s overdue payables position with the Serbian tax authority”.

Partizan have a proud history in European club competition, being the first Yugoslav and Serbian side to play in the European Cup in 1955 and the first east European side to make that competition’s final when they lost to Real Madrid in 1966.