The student badly beaten in an attack in Leeds city centre two years ago will take a civil action against Leeds United players Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer and the club itself.
Sarfraz Najeib's family announced at a news conference today they would begin a civil action for damages against Woodgate, Bowyer and Tony Hackworth, another Leeds player at the time of the incident.
Bowyer was cleared last Friday on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and affray. Woodgate was convicted of affray and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
The club would also face an action because the family believed it failed to control the players appropriately and was involved in a cover-up, a family spokesman said.
He said the action was "a new chapter in the Najeib family's quest for justice", calling the outcome of the trial "illogical, heartbreaking". Writs would be served "within weeks or days".
Najeib suffered a broken leg and a fractured cheek and nose after he was attacked and was in hospital for eight days. He was at the news conference but did not speak.
The civil action would also include two of Woodgate's friends, Paul Clifford and Neale Caveney, the spokesman said.
Clifford was sentenced to six years in prison at the trial and Caveney, convicted of affray, faced the same punishment as Woodgate. Hackworth was cleared in a first trial earlier this year.