Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS/TAS)

Also known as: CAS · TAS

Jurisdiction: International

Sports arbitration court; the venue for withdrawn AFA/CBF appeals over the abandoned 2021 qualifier.

Timeline appearances

  1. 2019-07-06Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    Messi's two distinct 2019 CONMEBOL sanctions — the time-barred one-match red-card ban and the separate three-month comments suspension
  2. 2021-09-05Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    Full chronology of the abandoned Brazil v Argentina qualifier from FIFA decision to the August 2022 settlement and CAS withdrawal

Explicit limitations

  • Whether CONMEBOL published a formal written prescription ruling (only the AFA-relayed confirmation located this session).
  • No public record of a CAS filing by Messi/AFA located this session.
  • No FIFA official media release confirming the CANCELLATION was located this session (the Disciplinary and Appeal releases exist; the cancellation was announced by the federations and reported by AP/ESPN).
  • No CAS case reference number located this session.
  • The disposition of the four players' two-match bans after the settlement is not documented in retrieved sources — no publicly available record was located this session.