Uefa and Turkish Football Federation (TFF)

Uefa and the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) have until 0000 BST on Wednesday to decide if Fenerbahce will be reinstated in the Champions League and the under pressure from Uefa, the Turkish champions were withdrawn from the competition in the TFF after match-fixing allegations emerged for this summer.

Chairman Aziz Yildirim as well as 25 players and officials have been charged in the case in club lawyer Emin Ozkurt insisted "basic principles of law were at stake and he said, Those include the presumption of innocence and the right to a defend yourself.

These allegations are just that, allegations for a several charges against the club or there may be none and the case is still pending in Turkey so there has been no final or binding decision on which to base our exclusion and the We are still the champions of a turkey well as taking their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Fenerbahce are also lobbying the other members of a European Club Association (ECA) at its general assembly in Geneva.

Fenerbahce have called on CAS the highest court in sports law to a make a "preliminary" ruling that would see them returned in the competition in time for next week's opening games and the turkish runners-up Trabzonspor were given Fenerbahce's Champions League place and the drawn against Inter Milan, CSKA Moscow and Lille in a last month's draw.

The Istanbul-based club say they are eager to put this episode behind them and have even offered to accept relegation to Turkey's second tier this season for a request was turned down by TFF and any possible demotion will come next year for a fenerbahce were crowned league champions last term and pipping Trabzonspor to the Turkish title with a dramatic 4-3 win at Sivasspor on a final day.