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Chelsea have filed an appeal against their transfer ban, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) have confirmed. The Blues have been banned by FIFA from making signings for the next two transfer windows. It comes after an investigation into the club’s signing of foreign U18 players with Chelsea currently not able to register them until the summer of 2020. After FIFA upheld their ban, Chelsea have taken it to the CAS with the hearing still to take place. The CAS statement read: “The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered an appeal filed by Chelsea Football Club Ltd (CFC) against the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). “The appeal is directed against the FIFA Appeal Committee decision dated 11 April 2019 in which CFC was declared liable for violations of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players and banned from registering new players, nationally and internationally, for two entire and consecutive registration periods, fined CHF 600,000, issued with a reprimand and warned on its future conduct. “Generally speaking, CAS appeal arbitration procedures involve an exchange of written submissions between the parties while a Panel of CAS arbitrators is being convened to hear the appeal. “Once the Panel has been formally constituted it issues procedural directions, including, inter alia, with respect to the holding of a hearing. “Following the hearing, if one is held (a CAS Panel may also issue a decision based only on the parties’ written submissions), the Panel deliberates and then issues its decision in the form of an Arbitral Award. “It is not possible to say at this time when the Arbitral Award will be issued. “CAS will not provide any further information in relation to this procedure, expect to issue a Media Release announcing the Panel’s decision.” The transfer window this summer closes on August 8 with Chelsea currently not allowed to buy players until the end of January 2020.