Serbian football club Partizan punished by UEFA for fans Kosovo Banner and attacking hymns

UEFA fined Partizan Belgrade more than $ 100,000 on Wednesday and ordered part of the Stadium of the Serbian club closed at one European competition for racist and political explanations from fans.

Fans showed a banner «Kosovo is Serbia» and sang discriminatory and offensive slogans in two home games in qualifying rounds in the conference.

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The assignment to close a section with 10,000 seats from the Stadium of Partizan applies to the next home game of the team in a European competition. Partizan will be confronted on Thursday with possible elimination in Edinburgh, with 2-0 behind the first stage of the third qualifying round of the Conference League against Hibernian.

UEFA said that his disciplinary panel Partizan a total of 90,250 euros ($ 105,500) for incidents in home games in recent weeks against Hibernian and Olexandriya van Ukraine.

The costs include «racist and/or discriminatory behavior», with an illegal banner and throwing objects, UEFA said.

Serbia never recognized the declaration of independence in 2008 by Kosovo, the neighboring former province that has been a member of UEFA and World Football Body Fifa since 2016.