By Danesius Marteh,
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ordered the Liberia Football Association (LFA) to provisionally reinstate Jubilee FC in the first division for the 2025/2026 season pending the decision by the club licensing appeal board (CLAB).
This was contained in an eight-count arbitral award delivered by Atty. Herve Le Lay of France on 31 October.
CAS asked CLAB to resume jurisdiction and reach a decision on Jubilee’s appeal on 14 April against the decision issued on 14 April by the LFA to relegate Jubilee to the third division in a letter written by secretary-general Emmett Crayton under clear instruction from President Mustapha Raji.
Herve also ruled that the cost of arbitration shall be shared 25-percent for Jubilee and 75-percent for the LFA.
Jubilee spent more than US$35,000 because the LFA refused to pay its share of cost with the hope that the case would have been dismissed thinking and believing that Jubilee couldn’t afford the money.
