Uefa to decide whether to back banned president Platini

European football authority Uefa will decide whether to continue backing its President Michel Platini on Thursday, as its member nations meet in the wake of his suspension from football.

The former captain of the French national team was handed the 90-day ban alongside Fifa President Sepp Blatter and several other senior figures as the global football body investigates allegations of high-level corruption.

Platini - who has led Uefa unchallenged for eight years - has appealed the suspension imposed by Fifa's ethics committee last week, described it as "farcical" and the allegations against him "astonishingly vague".

Two weeks earlier, Switzerland's attorney general's office initiated criminal proceedings against Blatter in relation to a £1.4 million payment from Fifa to Platini in 2011 - nine years after the Frenchman completed a spell working for the Fifa President as an adviser.

Uefa initially said its executive committee stood "fully behind" Platini despite the ban, but its 54 member associations will now discuss the body's next move at the summit in Geneva.

One possible course of action could be to push for a postponement of Fifa's Presidential elections, for which Platini handed his nomination papers hours before receiving the ban.

Currently scheduled for 26 February, a delay could potentially give Platini the opportunity to prove his innocence before campaigning begins in earnest.