Vladimir Putin, in 2017, was playing ball in the qualifiers for the FIFA Confederations Cup. Photo: Alexei Druzhinin, AP.
Extended by the UEFA Executive Committee on Monday harsh sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraineleaving their teams from the next edition of the Champions League and their Selections of the next contests of all its brancheseven excluded his application to organize the men’s European Championships in 2028 or 2032. The measures were added to those already announced at FIFA on 28 February.
At the club level, the sanction includes the following tournaments for the 2022/23 season: UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, UEFA Women’s Champions League at UEFA Youth League.
“Furthermore, Russia will be given a number of coefficient points equal to the lowest number they have earned in any of the last five seasons, i.e., 4,333 points for the men’s association club coefficient and 1,750 for the men’s association coefficient. association club for the purpose of calculating points for the 2022/23 season “explained the statement.
At the National Team level, where the men’s team is left out of the playoffs for Qatar 2022, the penalties are deeper and involve a direct and immediate impact on female branchwhat’s left outside the World Cup in Australia-New Zealand 2023the last stage of European Football and Futsal Cup.
UEFA Nations League 2022/23: Russia will not participate in Group 2 of League B and will automatically take fourth place in this group. As a result, they will be eliminated at the end of the group stage and will be ranked 16th and final in League B.
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 (final tournament): Russia will sit in Group C of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 finals scheduled for 6-31 July in England and will be replaced by Portugal, the rival Russia defeated in the play-offs.
European qualification for the Women’s World Cup 2023: Russia did not play their two scheduled games in April in Group E (consisting of Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Malta and Azerbaijan) due to their suspension. Russia will not participate in any of the following against this competition and all their results so far are considered invalid. As such, Group E will continue as a group of five teams.
European Under 21 Championship 2021-23: Russia did not play their two scheduled matches in March in Group C (consisting of Spain, Slovakia, Malta, Lithuania and Northern Ireland) due to their suspension. Russia will not participate in any of the following against this competition and all their results so far are considered invalid. As such, Group C will continue as a group of five teams.
UEFA Women’s Futsal Euro 2022 (final tournament): Russia will not participate in the final round (consisting of Portugal, Spain and Ukraine) scheduled for July 1-3 in Portugal and will be replaced by Hungary, who finished second in Group 1 of the Main Round, which Russia won.
European Women’s Futsal Championship 2022/23: Russia was drawn directly in Group 4 of the Main Round. Since the three winners in the group and the best runner-up will qualify for the Preliminary Round, Russia will be replaced in the Main Round by the second best seed from the Preliminary Round.
European qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2024: Russia will be replaced in the Main Round group stage draw by Norway, who were the best third-place finishers in the Preliminary Round.
Source: Clarin
