Royal AM's transfer ban has remain switched on for yet another week just days after the club's participation in the DStv Diski Challenge was withdrawn.
The PSL announced on Friday that the FIFA registration ban has left Royal AM unable to field a team in the 2024/25 campaign of the feeder league.
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This then led to the PSL withdrawing the club from the league which caters for all 16 clubs in the Betway Premiership.
Royal AM - who have their chairman Andile Mpisane playing - have won only twice in their last 15 matches stretching back to last season, which provides further evidence of the challenges that they are facing in dealing with the FIFA ban.
Now, according to the latest FIFA updates on registration bans, the club is still locked out for the two cases relating to Samir Nurkovic and Ricardo Nascimento.
Nurkovic took up his breach of contract with FIFA after failing to reach an agreement over a settlement for the contract he signed after joining from Kaizer Chiefs two years ago.
Then, after FIFA's award went in Nurkovic's favour last year and subsequently put a three-window ban on Royal AM, the KZN outfit took the matter on appeal against the player and the world governing body to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The ban relating to the Serbian striker has been in place since July 3, 2023.
Then with Nascimento, FIFA ruled in favour of the Brazilian with an award of R600 000 (effective September 2023 with an interest of 5% per annum).
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Royal AM chose not to comply with the FIFA order and were then handed a three-window ban, which came into effect on January 15, 2024.
Complicating the case is that Nascimento's agent who did the deal for the now retired defender (Marcelo Robalinho) is now demanding his 6% commission for the deal to settle the case.