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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Labour peer calls on Uefa to ban Belarus from Euro 2024 qualifying

Belarus players in action during their Nations League game against Slovakia last September.
Belarus players in action during their Nations League game against Slovakia last September. Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

The Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, is the subject of calls to ban Belarus from European Championship qualifying this year in an extension of the row over Russian participation in international sport.

The Labour peer George Foulkes has written to Ceferin asking him to reconsider the organisation’s position on Belarus, given the support the country has shown to its Russian neighbour during the war in Ukraine.

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