UEFA has also ordered the Serbian FA to refrain from ordering tickets to all away games in the rest of qualifying.
The October 12 match was stopped after six minutes when masked Serb fans smuggled flares and threw them on track and the Italian fans, paralyzing the world of football, hoping that such scenes had been relegated to the past.
"The organization of control and discipline has decided to award the match as a 3-0 victory gained for Italy," a UEFA statement said reel off a host of other sanctions.
Serbia ban crowd in a match which is set to take effect for the qualification at home against Northern Ireland on 25 March, with the threat of a suspended second game behind closed doors if a similar incident happens in next two years.
Italy was also hit with a suspended sentence of a match without fans for a period of two years, while Serbia was fined € 120 000 and Italy € 100,000.
Serbia will appeal against the 3-0 walkover."We are not happy with that part of the UEFA verdict and we will appeal for a replay of the match because we think the only fair decision is to have a winner determined on the playing field," FA president Tomislav Karadzic said.
"We do not believe that justice has been there, but as in other penalties against us, we can not complain, and measures against Italy, is also what we expected." Pending the appeal, which Karadzic is not optimistic about the victory, the Court has put Italy on top of Group C with 10 points in four games. Serbia was the fifth, four points and struggling with the tournament to Ukraine and Poland.
Goalkeeper threatened:
Serbian fans threw flares after climbing a fence in Genoa and cut a hole in the net to prevent objects thrown.The kick off had been delayed by 35 minutes due to crowd trouble that has been Serbia goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic retired from the game was threatened by his own supporters because of a dispute Country Club.
Away fans who had made a political gesture in the ground and tried to break a plexiglass barrier to enter the house late, also clashed with police after a fall, and there were 17 Serbian football arrests.The criticized Italian police and their counterparts admitted there was a rupture between the two intelligence officials said nations.Italian they did not know that fans of Serbia was a risk, despite the long history of hooliganism in the country .
The October 12 match was stopped after six minutes when masked Serb fans smuggled flares and threw them on track and the Italian fans, paralyzing the world of football, hoping that such scenes had been relegated to the past.
"The organization of control and discipline has decided to award the match as a 3-0 victory gained for Italy," a UEFA statement said reel off a host of other sanctions.
Serbia ban crowd in a match which is set to take effect for the qualification at home against Northern Ireland on 25 March, with the threat of a suspended second game behind closed doors if a similar incident happens in next two years.
Italy was also hit with a suspended sentence of a match without fans for a period of two years, while Serbia was fined € 120 000 and Italy € 100,000.
Serbia will appeal against the 3-0 walkover."We are not happy with that part of the UEFA verdict and we will appeal for a replay of the match because we think the only fair decision is to have a winner determined on the playing field," FA president Tomislav Karadzic said.
"We do not believe that justice has been there, but as in other penalties against us, we can not complain, and measures against Italy, is also what we expected." Pending the appeal, which Karadzic is not optimistic about the victory, the Court has put Italy on top of Group C with 10 points in four games. Serbia was the fifth, four points and struggling with the tournament to Ukraine and Poland.
Goalkeeper threatened:
Serbian fans threw flares after climbing a fence in Genoa and cut a hole in the net to prevent objects thrown.The kick off had been delayed by 35 minutes due to crowd trouble that has been Serbia goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic retired from the game was threatened by his own supporters because of a dispute Country Club.
Away fans who had made a political gesture in the ground and tried to break a plexiglass barrier to enter the house late, also clashed with police after a fall, and there were 17 Serbian football arrests.The criticized Italian police and their counterparts admitted there was a rupture between the two intelligence officials said nations.Italian they did not know that fans of Serbia was a risk, despite the long history of hooliganism in the country .
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