TIME breaks down the soccer governing body's decisions to ban nations from the World Cup over the years
These Are the Countries FIFA Has Ever Banned From the World Cup
Al-Rihla, the official adidas matchball for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, is pictured on March 30, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.t’s rare that FIFA bans national teams from participating in the World Cup. So when soccer’s world governing body declared earlier this year that Russia would be banned from competitions—which includes this year’s tournament in Qatar—it was a major step. Russia has become an international pariah because of its war in Ukraine, and the sports arena is no exception.
“This is one of the few cases that we have so far in which a country has been explicitly banned for a political action,” says Mauricio Borrero, an associate professor of history at St. John’s University in New York and an expert on global soccer and Russia. It’s more common for national teams to get banned as a result of issues related to their football associations or third-party interference.
Below, some of the countries that FIFA banned at various points over the years, whether for political or other reasons.
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