[1] FIFA and UEFA’s decisions to suspend Russian national teams and clubs from participating in FIFA’s and UEFA’s competitions, as well as UEFA’s decision to declare FUR’s bid to host UEFA EURO competitions as not eligible, raise the question of what legal basis FIFA and UEFA have for suspending national football associations and its affiliated clubs from participation in FIFA and UEFA competitions.
On 28 February 2022, as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four days earlier, FIFA and UEFA decided:
- to suspend all Russian teams and clubs from participation in its competitions until further notice; and,
- to give a “bye” to the team of Poland to the final of “Path B” of the European playoffs for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, due to take place on 29 March 2022.[2]
Although the decision from FIFA[3] and UEFA[4] suspends all Russian teams from FIFA’s competitions,
the far most important consequence of the decision was that Russia’s representative team was eliminated from the FIFA World Cup 2022. Russia, who finished as runners-up in their World Cup qualifying group, was...
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