“No Russian club will participate in the 2022-2023 season” of the Champions League, the Europa League or the Europa League Conference, UEFA announced on Monday. At the female euro, in July, Russia will be replaced by Portugal.
Le Monde with AFP
While tennis is tearing himself apart on the opportunity to oust the Russian tournament players, after the decision in this sense of Wimbledon, European football confirms the choice it made two months ago The invasion of Ukraine: Russian clubs and selections are still not welcome on football fields.
The first will not be able to participate in the various European cuts in 2022-2023, including the lucrative Champions League, UEFA announced on Monday 2 May. The body that oversees European football has also decided to replace Russia with Portugal for Euro-2022 women this summer (July 6 to 31) in England. The Portuguese had been beaten by the Russians in the competition access dam.
In a long press release , UEFA lists the measures taken by its executive committee against Russia Following the invasion of Ukraine, which put Russian sport at the banking of international sport, by reviewing all its competitions, from the men’s, women’s club events, from young people to selection football.
“No Russian club will participate in the 2022-2023 season of UEFA Interclubs competitions” whose qualification towers start in July, namely the Champions League, the Europa League or the Europa Conference League, A writes uefa.
This measure strengthens the sidelining of Russian football, already excluded at the end of February by the International Football Federation (FIFA) of the World-2022 in Qatar (November 21-December 18), for which the Russian male selection , quarter finalist of the 2018 World Cup, organized in Russia, could still qualify.
The Russian Football Federation retired on March 30, its appeal against FIFA’s decision to ban its selection of international competitions. The Sports Arbitral Tribunal (TAS) had, a few days earlier, refused to suspend the sanctions of FIFA, but that did not prejudge the future sentence of sports justice on the bottom of the dispute.
The Russian Federation, on the other hand, maintained its procedure against UEFA, which put its clubs and selections to the ban of European competitions of this season, but “no procedural calendar has been established for the moment”, Warn the heap in early April.
In the league of male nations, Russia will not participate in the group stage which begins in June and will automatically end up last of its group B composed of Iceland, Israel, and Albania, a synonymous place Deftite in Ligue C. Finally, the Russian candidacy for the organization of the Euro football in 2028 and 2032, was deemed “inadmissible” by UEFA.