Russia rejects the exclusion / Appeals in court the decisions of FIFA and UEFA

The Russian Football Federation has demanded the suspension of the execution of these sanctions and demands that the decisions taken be annulled, returning national teams and clubs to competition. The main topic is about the Russian national team which at the end of March had to play in the qualifying play-off for the World Cup.

In this situation, the Russian Football Federation has also appealed to the football federations of those countries that have requested Russia’s exclusion from the World Cup (Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Montenegro and Malta). The Court of Arbitration for Sport has initiated two separate arbitration proceedings and will give its opinion on the matter in the coming days.

FIU

The match between Scotland and Ukraine, valid for the qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar, scheduled for March 24, will be played in June. This was FIFA’s decision after the Ukrainian Football Association requested that its play-off matches be rescheduled due to the inability to arrange trips and training for a team in the current circumstances. After consulting with UEFA and the four federations member of Group A of the play-off qualifiers for the World Cup, it was unanimously decided, in a spirit of solidarity, to accept this request.

FIFA has also announced that the match between Wales and Austria will remain scheduled for March 24, 2022, due to the need to limit interruption to official matches already scheduled for the June space due to an already overloaded calendar.

Moreover, following the decision of 28 February 2022 taken together by the UEFA Executive Committee to suspend all Russian teams from participating in FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice, the Bureau of the Organizing Committee of FIFA has decided that Poland will enter the final of Group B. scheduled for March 29, 2022, in which it will face the winner of the match between Sweden and the Czech Republic.

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