The European Football Association announced, on Monday, that Russian clubs will not participate in European tournaments in 2022-2023, including the lucrative Champions League, and also decided to replace Russia with Portugal in the European Women’s European Cup 2022 this summer (July 6-31) in England.
And UEFA wrote in a statement that it raised the list of measures taken against Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.
This strong measure reinforces the exclusion of Russian football, which at the end of February was already excluded by FIFA from the 2022 World Cup scheduled for this fall in Qatar, for which the selection of the Russian men who reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup was organized. Russia, no You may still qualify.
So the Russians could not take part in the play-off matches at the end of March of the country championship (November 21 – December 18).
Zenit is deprived of C1
The Russian Football Federation withdrew its appeal on March 30 against FIFA’s decision to prevent its selection from international competitions, thus agreeing to exclude him from the 2022 World Cup.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had, a few days earlier, refused to suspend FIFA’s sanctions, but that did not prejudge the future ruling of Sports Justice on the merits of the dispute.
On the other hand, the Russian Federation maintained its measures against UEFA, which banned its clubs and selection from European competitions this season, but “no procedural timetable has been established at the moment”, the Court of Arbitration for Sport warned at the beginning of April.
The decision adopted on Monday deprives Zenit St Petersburg, crowned champions of Russia 2022, of its direct ticket to the group stage of the upcoming C1.
