The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne has completed the hearing of a case on an allegedly fixed match between FC Metalist (Kharkiv) and FC Karpaty (Lviv) that was held in the spring of 2008.

A press release on posted on the court's Web site on Friday reads that "Football Club Metalist is deprived of the bronze medal for the 2007/2008 sporting season of the Ukrainian Football Championship." Besides, Metalist and Karpaty are fined $25,000 each.

At the same time, the decision of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) to deprive Metalist and Karpaty of nine points each in the standings of the 2011/2012 sporting season of the Ukrainian Football Championship was set aside. Thus, the ranking of the 2011/2012 season remains unchanged.

The court also ruled to ban footballers Serhiy Pshenychnykh, Mykola Ischenko, Vasyl Kobin, Volodymyr Fedoriv, and Maciej Nalepa from playing football professionally for three years, with an additional probation of two years. Each of the abovementioned footballers was fined $10,000.

The court also banned FC Metalist Sports Director Yevhen Krasnikov from carrying out any football-related activity for five years, and imposed a fine of $10,000.

At the same time, the management of FC Karpaty, represented by Petro Dyminsky and Ihor Dedyshyn, were given conditional sanctions in the form of bans on carrying out any football-related activities for one year and six months respectively, which were suspended for probationary periods of one year. The court also fined Dyminsky $5,000 and Dedyshyn $2,500.

The court also ruled to set aside the sanction issued by the FFU against FC Karpaty Director General Oleksandr Yefremov.

The verdict of the Court of Arbitration for Sport reads that the appeals of Metalist and Karpaty were partially upheld.