Apr 7, 2006, 16:38 GMT
Zurich - Turkey will have to play all six designated home matches in the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign in another country and behind closed doors while Swiss player Benjamin Huggel is effectively out of the World Cup in summer, the governing football body FIFA confirmed on Friday.
FIFA imposed a six-match ban for official games on Turkey and further bans on several players and officials from Turkey and Switzerland two months ago following violent scenes after a World Cup qualifier between the two sides last November.
Players Emre Belozoglu (Turkey), Ozalan Alpay (Turkey), Benjamin Huggel (Switzerland) and assistant coach Mehmet Ozdilek (Turkey), as well as the Turkish FA appealed against the decision, but FIFA on Friday turned down the appeal.
In a statement FIFA said: 'Meeting under the chairmanship of Rafael Salguero (Guatemala), the FIFA appeal committee examined in depth the appeals...and rejected all appeals completely.
'In accordance with the FIFA Statutes, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne may be called upon to act as the body of final instance, once the reasoned decisions have been notified to the parties.'
In February FIFA said that Turkey must play their next six official games 500 kilometres away from the Turkish border in another member country of the European football body UEFA.
The three players were banned for six official games each, while Serkan Balci of Turkey misses the next two games.
Ozdilek was banned from football-related activities for 12 months and Swiss team physiotherapist Stephan Meyer suspended for two games.
For FIFA, friendlies are not official matches - only qualifiers and major tournament matches are viewed as such.
As a result, Turkey will have no home field advantage at all and will be without Alpay and Emre throughout their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.
Turkey are drawn to play reigning Euro champions Greece, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Norway, Hungary, Malta and Moldova in group C of qualifying for Euro 2008.
Eintracht Frankfurt player Huggel, meanwhile, will effectively miss the World Cup in summer in Germany, unless he is nominated and Switzerland makes the final which would be their seventh game.
To make matters worse, Switzerland will also not have to play Euro qualifiers as they are co-hosting the tournament and this would mean that he would - should the Swiss fail to play more than seven games in the two tournaments, only be eligible to play official qualifying games for the national team again in 2009.
Violent scenes occurred at the end of the game between the two sides on November 16 in Istanbul.
Turkey won 4-2 but Switzerland progressed to the World Cup finals on the away goals rule, having won the first leg 2-0 the previous weekend at home.
Television footage revealed that the incidents started as both teams headed into the dressing room after the final whistle.
FIFA boss Joseph Blatter immediately called for harsh sanctions, which were handed down by FIFA's five-strong disciplinary committee, chaired by deputy chairman Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, after a series of hearings shortly after the game and Monday and Tuesday.
FIFA not only imposed bans but also fines, most notably 200,000 Swiss francs (154,000 dollars, 128,500 euros) on the Turkish football federation.
The players and officials must pay a total 71,500 Swiss francs, with Huggel, Emre, Alpay and Ozdilek fined 15,000 Swiss francs each.
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