FIFA, U.S. Soccer Face Antitrust Appeal Over Foreign Match Ban

Soccer promoter Relevent Sports LLC has asked a federal appeals court in Manhattan to revive antitrust claims against FIFA and U.S. Soccer over a rule banning foreign teams from playing official matches on American soil.

Relevent docketed a notice of appeal late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, about five weeks after Judge Valerie E. Caproni dismissed the case.

The lawsuit failed to show that U.S. Soccer and FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, reached an unlawful agreement aimed at preventing competition from foreign promoters, Caproni found July 20. An agreement between ...