FIFA and UEFA yesterday suspended all Russia 9international and club teams from their competitions “until further notice,” the governing bodies announced in a joint statement on Monday.
World football’s governing body, FIFA, and European football’s governing body, UEFA, said that both organizations’ presidents — Gianni Infantino and Aleksander Čeferin — “hope that the situation in Ukraine will improve significantly and rapidly so that football can again be a vector for unity and peace amongst people.”
UEFA’s club competitions include the men’s and women’s Champions League, the men’s Europa League and the men’s UEFA Conference League
The move makes it likely that Russia will be excluded from this year’s men’s World Cup in Qatar, starting in November, and the women’s Euro 2020 tournament in July.
In a joint statement yesterday, the governing bodies said;
“FIFA and UEFA have today decided together that all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams, shall be suspended from participation in both FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice,” UEFA said in a statement.
“These decisions were adopted today by the Bureau of the FIFA Council and the Executive Committee of UEFA, respectively the highest decision-making bodies of both institutions on such urgent matters.”
UEFA has also announced that it has ended its partnership with Gazprom, the Russian majority state-owned energy corporation.
