FIFA has set dates for Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii to challenge their suspensions following corruption allegations that led to them being barred from the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting votes.

FIFA said yesterday in a statement that its appeals committee will meet on 2 February and will also hear the cases of three former FIFA executive committee members - Slim Aloulou, Amadou Diakite and Ahongalu Fusimalohi — who also were suspended from football following a British newspaper sting.

A sixth official, Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana, has not appealed his ban imposed by FIFA’s Ethics Committee in November.

The ethics panel chairman, Claudio Sulser, said when announcing the sanctions two weeks before the World Cup votes, that “the damage done to FIFA is very great.”

After Adamu and Temarii were suspended, a 22-man FIFA executive committee chose Russia to host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar in 2022.

Adamu was banned from all duties for three years after the ethics court found that he sought bribes from undercover reporters.

The Sunday Times published video showing Adamu requesting €590,000 to build four artificial football pitches in his native Nigeria, and for the money to be paid to him directly.

If exonerated, Adamu would be cleared to stand for re-election to his FIFA post. The Confederation for African Football has its annual assembly Feb. 23 in Khartoum, Sudan, where it will choose two of its four delegates to the FIFA ruling body.

Temarii, from Tahiti, was cleared of corruption but got a one-year ban for breaching confidentiality and loyalty rules.

He was replaced as a FIFA vice president and Oceania confederation president by his former deputy, David Chung of Papua New Guinea, in an election last Saturday.

The FIFA appeals body, chaired by Bermuda Football Association President Larry Mussenden, will hear three other cases.

Aloulou, a Tunisian lawyer who chaired FIFA’s disputes panel, is challenging a two-year sanction. FIFA referees committee member Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi from Tonga were each suspended for three years. Bhamjee got a four-year ban.

They reportedly advised reporters posing as lobbyists how to bribe FIFA officials and how much to pay.

Sulser’s panel fined each official €7,700, except for Temarii who was fined €4,350.

The FIFA appeal committee’s verdicts can be challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.