Russia to enchantment to CAS over FIFA and UEFA suspensions

The Russian Football Union (RFU) will enchantment to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in opposition to the choices by FIFA and UEFA to bar Russian groups from worldwide competitions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, it stated on Thursday.

The union stated in a press release it might file one lawsuit in opposition to the 2 governing our bodies to demand that Russian males’s and girls’s nationwide groups be allowed to compete, together with in qualifying for this yr’s World Cup in Qatar.

FIFA and UEFA had determined collectively this week that each one Russian groups, whether or not nationwide or membership sides, can be suspended from participation in FIFA and UEFA competitions till additional discover.

“The RFU will demand the restoration of all men’s and women’s national teams of Russia in all types of football in the tournaments in which they took part (including in the qualifying round of the World Cup in Qatar), as well as compensation for damage,” the RFU stated.

“In order to ensure the possibility of the participation of Russian teams in the next scheduled matches, the RFU will insist on an expedited procedure for considering the case.”

Russia have been scheduled to host Poland in a males’s World Cup qualifying playoff on March 24, with the winners set to play Sweden or the Czech Republic 5 days later. All three groups had refused to play in opposition to Russia.

“If FIFA and UEFA refuse such a procedure, a requirement will be put forward for the introduction of interim measures in the form of suspension of FIFA and UEFA decisions,” the RFU added.

Russia hosted the final World Cup in 2018 with the ultimate held in Moscow and attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” that it says will not be designed to occupy territory however to destroy its southern neighbour’s navy capabilities and seize what it regards as harmful nationalists.