Russia's men's, women's and younker teams stay barred from taking portion successful matches organised by football's European and satellite governing bodies.
Since Russia's full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022, the nation's men's broadside has been incapable to vie astatine the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cups and Uefa's Euro 2024.
Despite astir of Russia's territory sitting successful the continent of Asia, the immense bulk of the country's clubs and infrastructure beryllium to the westbound of the Ural mountains, successful Europe. Russia, nether the sanction of the Soviet Union, was a laminitis subordinate of European governing assemblage Uefa.
During its suspension from Uefa, Russia cannot play successful the Euros, Nations League oregon immoderate qualifiers.
The past authoritative lucifer played by Russia's men nether the banner of mainstream contention was a 1-0 decision by Croatia successful a 2022 World Cup qualifying fixture successful November 2021.
Russia haven't wholly stopped playing planetary football. In fact, their men's squad drew 1-1 with Nigeria successful a affable astatine the Luzhniki Stadium successful Moscow connected Friday.
Since the full-scale penetration of Ukraine began, the men's squad person played 16 matches against non-Western nations without needing the support of Fifa oregon Uefa.
Fifteen of those matches person been friendlies. They see one-sided victories against the likes of Brunei (11-0), Cuba (8-0), Zambia (5-0) and Syria (4-0).
Other fixtures person been played against erstwhile Soviet nations including Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, arsenic good arsenic geopolitical allies similar Iran and Serbia.
Russia besides participated successful a three-team 2024 tourney organised by the Vietnamese Football Federation successful Hanoi, alongside Thailand. After beating Vietnam 3-0 successful the opening fixture, Russia's lucifer against Thailand was cancelled due to the fact that of a typhoon, and was ne'er rescheduled.
Russia's women person exclusively played friendlies since the prohibition was archetypal imposed.
In that clip they person faced nations who person much affable relations with Russia than astir successful the West - including China, Iran, and North Korea - and teams from Latin America.
They person besides precocious begun facing Russian nine sides - their past 2 fixtures being a 1-0 triumph implicit Spartak Moscow and a 3-0 decision by CSKA Moscow.
It has been reported Russia could retreat from Uefa successful favour of joining the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
In 2023, Russian Football Union (RFU) president Alexander Dyukov attended the AFC legislature successful Bahrain, successful bid to sermon the anticipation of Russia switching from European to Asian football.
But aboriginal that twelvemonth the RFU voted not to marque the change, alternatively opting to acceptable up a moving radical to devise a program to instrumentality to European competition.
Asia's competitions, similar the planetary Asian Cup and AFC Champions League, are obscurity adjacent arsenic financially lucrative oregon prestigious arsenic their European counterparts.
If the warfare successful Ukraine were to end, though, Russia could beryllium brought backmost into the mainstream planetary shot fold immediately.
"When the warfare stops, they volition beryllium readmitted," Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said earlier this year. "The archetypal determination was done unneurotic with Fifa. I deliberation we volition [overturn] it unneurotic erstwhile we bash it."
Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship medal by president Vladimir Putin aft Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, has expressed a tendency to spot the squad backmost connected the planetary stage.
"As talks are going connected for bid successful Ukraine, I anticipation that we tin soon determination to the adjacent page, bring back, arsenic well, Russia successful the shot scenery due to the fact that this would mean that everything is solved," Infantino said.
"That's what we person to cheer for, that's what we person to commune for - due to the fact that that is what shot is about. It's not astir dividing, it's astir uniting girls, uniting boys, uniting radical from wherever they are."
A instrumentality to Fifa and Uefa contention would besides mean Russian home clubs being allowed backmost into aboriginal editions of the Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, and perchance the revamped Club World Cup.
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