BERNE, April 30 (Reuters) - Legia Warsaw, kicked out of the Champions League qualifiers in August, have lost their appeal against the elimination after sport's highest tribunal rejected their claims that UEFA had been too bureaucratic.
The Polish club beat Celtic 6-1 on aggregate in the third qualifying round tie, only to be eliminated when they forfeited the second leg for fielding an ineligible player.
Legia brought on Bartosz Bereszynski for the last few minutes of the game, believing he had completed a three-match ban, but UEFA ruled that Legia should have registered him for those games and that he was still ineligible.