BELGRADE, Serbia -- Partizan Belgrade are unlikely to appeal against their ban from the UEFA Cup, the Serbian first division club's deputy general secretary Gordan Petric said on Thursday. There is little for the Partizan players to celebrate after UEFA's verdict. "We will decide what to do over the next few days but appealing against the verdict may not be the smartest thing to do because UEFA may react by imposing even stronger repercussions," Petric told Belgrade's B 92 television. "We really left no room to the UEFA Disciplinary Committee to be lenient because we had been punished in 25 of our 36 European matches in the last five years and we need to address the problem very seriously," he said.
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Serbian club Partizan Belgrade are thrown out of this year's UEFA Cup
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Rioting fans caused a hold-up during their tie at Serbia's Zrinjski Mostar
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Partizan, who won 6-1, are unlikely to appeal against UEFA's verdict
Earlier on Thursday, @placeholder took the most drastic action against a Serbian club to date, banning them from European competition for one year and fining them 50,000 Swiss francs ($41.259).