FIFA official Amos Adamu lost his appeal yesterday against a three-year ban for seeking bribes during the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding races.

The governing body’s appeals committee also rejected former FIFA vice president Reynald Temarii’s appeal against a one-year ban for breaking confidentiality rules.

FIFA’s appeals panel partially allowed appeals by three former executive committee members — Slim Aloulou, Amadou Diakite and Ahongalu Fusimalohi — who had their bans from all football duty for corruption reduced by one year each.

The committee announced its verdicts after hearing all five cases at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday and yesterday.

All five officials can challenge FIFA’s rulings at sport’s highest court, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Adamu, a former Nigeria sports minister, is the most senior FIFA official ever sanctioned for bribery.

The appeals body confirmed a FIFA ethics committee ruling that Adamu sought payments from British undercover reporters who posed as lobbysts.