![]() ![]() FIFA Disciplinary Code, 2011 Edition, 3 article 55 provides: ![]() The relevant FIFA and UEFA rules on the subject are clear. Accordingly, his suspension had not been served and despite missing those games in any event (the team believing – correctly – that they could not select him because of the ban), he remained suspended for the second-leg against Celtic. Since he had not been registered for those games, he had not been eligible to play in them. Patrick’s Athletic and the first-leg against Celtic. It was then discovered that Berezynski, who was due to serve a three match European club football suspension carried over from the previous season (having been sent off for violent conduct in a Europa League game against Apallon), had not been registered for Legia’s two previous Champions’ League qualification matches against St. With only three minutes left to play in this season’s Champions’ League’s third qualifying round, second-leg match between Celtic and Legia Warsaw, Legia substituted Bartosz Berezynski onto the field with Legia ahead 2-0 on the night and 6-1 on aggregate. This article will describe the approaches taken in FIFA, UEFA and The FA’s competitions, and then set out general guidance about when, and in what circumstances, a replay probably will and will not be ordered.įIFA and UEFA competitions: no right to a replay ![]() In practice this means that, while fielding an ineligible or suspended player in one competition may lead to a replay, in others it will not. 2Ultimately, each case is fact-specific and the answer depends upon the particular competition rules applicable to the match played. This situation plays out virtually every season. The innocent, losing club has no points from a match in which the opposition fielded a player who should not have been on the pitch in the first place. The player’s ineligibility or suspension is then discovered and the offending club is subjected to a form of disciplinary process and is penalised. Consider this scenario: a football club fields an ineligible 1 or suspended player in a match. ![]()
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