Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport against FIFA's order for him to pay €17.17million (£13.84m) compensation to the Blues.

The order was given to Mutu in May, with FIFA telling the Fiorentina and Romania forward that he must compensate the club that sacked him in 2004 after he tested positive for cocaine.

A CAS statement said: "Mutu requests the CAS to annul the FIFA decision and to establish that no compensation is in fact due."

No date has yet been set for a hearing.

The fine handed to Mutu was the largest ever from FIFA, having been based on the length of his contract left to run at the time of his Stamford Bridge sacking.

Chelsea signed Mutu from Parma for £18m in 2003 shortly after Roman Abramovich took charge of the club.

But the player failed to settle in London and following a seven-month ban from football, signed for Juventus at the end of 2005.

Chelsea then began proceedings against the player to claim damages for the transfer fee lost.

The 29-year-old has already received the backing of the International Federation of Professional Footballers' Associations, FIFPro, and the Romanian Footballers' Trade Union, Afan in his case against the FIFA fine.