Ukraine FA urges FIFA to ban Iran from World Cup

REQUEST: The Ukrainian football federation has requested the expulsion of Iran from the World Cup in Qatar. Pic: David Parry/PA

The Ukrainian Association of Football has called for Iran to be excluded from the World Cup in Qatar.

The UAF’s executive committee says it has made a request to global governing body FIFA to kick Iran out of the tournament, which starts on November 20, over what it describes as the country’s “systematic human rights violations” and “the possible involvement of Iran in the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine”.