Published on: 02/05/2022 – 20:26Modified on: 02/05/2022 – 20:27 UEFA has banned Russian football clubs from upcoming European competitions, including the Champions League and the Europa League, in retaliation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Portugal will also replace Russia at the Women’s Euro, scheduled for this summer in England. Russian clubs will not play in European competitions in 2022-2023, including the lucrative Champions League, UEFA announced on Monday May 2. “No Russian clubs will participate in the 2022-2023 season of UEFA club competitions” whose qualifying rounds start in July, namely the Champions League, the Europa League or the Europa League Conference, wrote UEFA. In a long press release, the European body lists the measures taken by its Committee executive against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, which banished Russian sport from international sport, by reviewing all its competitions, men’s, women’s, youth club events via selection football. UEFA has also decided to replace Russia with Portugal for the women’s Euro-2022, which will take place from July 6 to 31 in England. Russia already deprived of the World Cup This strong measure comes to reinforce the sidelining of football Russian ball, already excluded at the end of February by Fifa from the World Cup-2022 – this fall in Qatar – for which the Russian men’s selection, quarter-finalists of the World Cup-2018 organized in Russia, could still qualify. The Russians were therefore unable to participate in the play-offs at the end of March for the Qatari tournament.>> Read also: War in Ukraine: “The sports authorities have taken their responsibilities by excluding Russia” March his appeal against Fifa’s decision to ban his selection from international competitions, thus accepting his exclusion from the 2022 World Cup. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had, a few days earlier, refused to suspend the sanctions of Fifa, but this did not prejudge the future judgment of the sports justice on the merits of the dispute. UEFA targeted by a procedure of the Russian Federation On the other hand, the Russian Federation has maintained its procedure against UEFA, which has banned its clubs and selections from European competitions this season, but “no procedural calendar has been established for the moment” , had warned the CAS at the beginning of April. The decision adopted on Monday deprives the Zenith Saint-Petersburg, champion of Russia 2022, of its direct ticket for the group stage of the next C1. UEFA has also recorded the withdrawal of Russia of the 16 selections participating in the Women’s Euro, replacing it with Portugal, which had been beaten by the Russians in the dam of access to the competition. In the Men’s League of Nations, Russia will not participate in the group stage which begins in June and will automatically end last of its League B group made up of Iceland, Israel, and Albania, a place synonymous with demotion in League C. Finally, the Russian candidacy for the organization of the Euro football in 2028 and 2032 has was deemed “inadmissible” by UEFA. With AFP