The Qatari is going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after losing an appeal against FIFA's lifetime ban for bribery.

His legal team will also take a separate case to CAS challenging FIFA's right to appoint China's Zhang Jilong as acting president of the Asian Football Confederation in place of Bin Hammam.

FIFA's appeals committee yesterday rejected Bin Hammam's attempt to overturn the ban imposed by the body's ethics committee in July.

Bin Hammam said on his website: "The outcome from the appeal's committee was not unexpected or surprising.

"To be fair to the appeal committee members though, as a consequence of our experiences with the ethics committee, we didn't make serious efforts to prove my innocence this time around.

"We even thought to write to FIFA to 'skip' the appeals procedure and to have a directly guilty verdict from the appeals committee in order for us to go directly to CAS.

"Anyhow, I can now see, at last, light at the end of the tunnel and I am heading confidently towards it. My next step is to go to CAS where, from now on, I will be equal to my rival."

A statement from Bin Hammam's lawyer Eugene Gulland added: "We have also brought a separate legal proceeding before CAS which challenges the right of FIFA to designate Zhang Jilong as 'acting president' of the Asian Football Confederation and appoint him to sit on the FIFA executive committee. These decisions infringe the Asian Football Confederation's constitution."

Bin Hammam was banned after the ethics committee ruled he was responsible for cash gifts totalling around 1million US dollars (£620,000) to officials from associations belonging to the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) at a meeting in Trinidad on May 10.

FIFA have charged 16 of those officials with rule breaches in connection with that meeting.