Switzerland's supreme court has dismissed former Uefa president Michel Platini's appeal against his four-year ban from football.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal said that the ban - imposed on Platini by the Court of Arbitration for Sport - did not "appear to be manifestly excessive".
Platini was banned over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs he received from Fifa in 2011 which it was claims was backdated salary relating to four years of work he had carried out from 1998 as then-president Sepp Blatter's adviser.
Both Blatter and Platini were banned by Fifa over the payment, with the former receiving an eight-year ban that was subsequently reduced to six.
The ban saw Platini removed from the Uefa presidency and the race to succeed Blatter for the top job at Fifa.
