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Introduction
This Award centers on whether the Appellant filed its Statement of Appeal within the applicable time limit. The Panel had to assess the appeal’s admissibility, which focused on the date on which the relevant decision notified by FIFA reached the Hungarian Football Federation’s (HFF) sphere of control.
Factual Background
On 2 September 2021, the Hungarian and English A national teams played a match in the “Preliminary Competition of [the] FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, European Zone” (Match).
On 3 September 2021, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee (FIFA DC) opened disciplinary proceedings against HFF for potential breaches of Articles 13 and 16 of the
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