Sport’s highest tribunal yesterday extended the suspensions of two Maltese football players to one year following appeals by FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the nine-month and four-month bans handed to Ryan Grech and Claude Mattocks by the Malta Football Association were too lenient.

The court rejected an appeal by FIFA and WADA to extend the one-year ban already imposed on Gilbert Martin.

The three received their initial bans by the Maltese association after testing positive for various prohibited substances.

FIFA and WADA had asked for each to be given a two-year ban.