Jérôme Valcke, the former Fifa secretary general, has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport to have his 10-year ban from football overturned.

Valcke, 56, was banned from taking part in any football-related activity for 12 years, reduced to 10 in February 2016, for a number of ethics violations, such as misuse of expenses. But the Frenchman, who played a major role in the latter years of Sepp Blatter’s tenure as Fifa president, is now looking to Cas to overturn the ban.

A statement released by Cas read: “Jérôme Valcke, former secretary general of the Federation Internationale de Football Association, has filed an appeal at the court of arbitration for sport against the decision issued by the Fifa appeal committee dated 24 June 2016 (with reasons notified on 3 February 2017), in which he was banned from taking part in any football-related activity for a period of 10 years.

“ Jérôme Valcke seeks to have the challenged decision set aside in order for the sanction imposed on him to be lifted definitively. A Cas arbitration procedure is in progress.”

Fifa announced in January last year that Valcke had been sacked from his role – the second time he had been dismissed by the world game’s governing body. He had been suspended since September 2015 after ethics charges were brought against him over World Cup ticket sales, along with allegations over expenses including the use of a privately hired Fifa jet for personal travel.

He was also sacked as a Fifa marketing director in 2006 after a judge said he had lied repeatedly during Fifa’s botched sponsorship negotiations with the rival credit-card companies MasterCard and Visa. Less than eight months later, however, he was back at Fifa as second in command to the then president Blatter, who himself faced Fifa ethics sanctions in the past year.