When is there a right to replay a football match? FIFA, UEFA and The FA laws on fielding an ineligible player

Contemplate this circumstance: a club fields an ineligible[1] or suspended participant in a match.  That club wins the match.  The player’s ineligibility or suspension is then identified and the offending club is subjected to a form of disciplinary procedure and is penalised.

The harmless, dropping club has no factors from a match in which the opposition fielded a player who should not have been on the pitch in the initially position.  Really should the match be replayed?

This scenario plays out virtually each and every time[2]. Finally every single case is simple fact-particular and the response depends upon the distinct competition guidelines relevant to the match played.

In follow what this implies is that, although fielding an ineligible or suspended participant in just one level of competition may perhaps lead to a replay, in other individuals it will not.  This write-up looks at the strategies taken in FIFA, UEFA and The FA’s competitions, and then sets out general guidance about when, and in what situation, a replay almost certainly will and will not be requested.