Suspended FIFA president Joseph Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini are to learn their fate at a hearing held by the world governing body in the next two weeks.
The date for the hearing has been reported as being between December 16-18 in Zurich, though this has not been confirmed, with the pair threatened with life bans from the game.
Blatter and Platini were given 90-day suspensions by the FIFA ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber following a Swiss criminal investigation against Blatter launched on September 25.
As part of the investigation Platini was asked to provide information about a payment of 2 million Swiss francs (about 2 million dollars) signed off by Blatter in 2011 for work done between 1998 and 2002.
Both men deny wrong-doing but should lawyer Hans-Joachim Eckert, chairman of the adjudicatory chamber, decide the payment was corruption then the pair face being kicked out of football for life.
Platini, 60, is a former France international and as UEFA president was widely tipped as a potential FIFA president.
The 79-year-old Blatter has headed FIFA since 1998 but has promised to step down at an extraordinary congress in February 2016 with the organization dogged by scandal and allegations of corruption.
