It follows a petition submitted to the District Court of Colombo by the Football Federation's legal committee head Thilina Panditharatne and member Sepala Perera

Both Panditharatne and Perera submitted a petition on the conduct of the FFSL's AGM in the District Court of Colombo on December 10 which had been rejected and hence their decision to seek the intervention of the Appeal court.

The two men cited in the Petition that the FFSL had not got the approval of the Auditor General to conduct the AGM which was also in violation of its Constitution concerning procedure.
President of the FFSL Ranjith Rodrigo was cited in the Petition as the chief respondent.

Attorney at Law Palitha Kumarasinghe appeared on behalf of Rodrigo while Ali Sabri and Navin Marapona represented Panditharatne and Perera respectively.