The Fédération internationale de football association FIFA Disciplinary Committee has wielded its big stick on Equatorial Guinean Football Association (FEGUIFUT) and the player Emilio Nsue López following the latter’s participation in several matches of the national team including 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
FIFA banned FEGUIFUT for fielding Nsue in the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2026 preliminary competition, despite being ineligible.
After considering all elements brought before it, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee was comfortably satisfied that the player was ineligible and consequently decided to declare the matches of the FIFA World Cup 2026 preliminary competition in which the player was fielded (namely Equatorial Guinea v. Namibia and Liberia v. Equatorial Guinea played on 15 November 2023 and 20 November 2023, respectively) lost by forfeit by Equatorial Guinea (by a score of 3-0).
In addition, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee imposed the following sanctions:
a fine amounting to CHF 150,000 upon FEGUIFUT; and
a six-month ban from playing for any representative team of any association upon the player Emilio Nsue López.
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee’s findings were notified today to the parties concerned.