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Equatorial
Guinea team are set to miss the next four major international women's
tournaments
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Equatorial Guinea have
been expelled from the 2019 Women's World Cup in France for fielding 10
ineligible players and using forged documents.
BBC
Sport report continues:
The
players all took part in qualifying for the 2016 Olympic women's tournament in
Brazil.
The
latest sanctions come on top of their ban from competing at the2020 Olympics, which was issued last year.
FIFA has also imposed a fine of US$102,000 (£77,700) on the country's
football association.
An
investigation by the world governing body found the 10 players were "not
eligible to play for the representative team of Equatorial Guinea".
Two
more players - Muriel Linda Mendoua Abessolo and Francisca Angue Ondo Asangono
- were given 10-match bans after being found to have used forged and falsified
documents.
As
well as missing the 2019 Women's World Cup and the following year's Olympics,
Equatorial Guinea are also banned from the next two Women's Africa Cup of
Nations in 2018 and 2020.
The
initial ban from the Olympics, announced in April 2016, came after FIFA found
that Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira used forged documents in the
preliminary competition of the 2016 games.
She
was discovered with two passports with different birth dates and two birth
certificates showing different parental information.
In
2016, De Oliveira also played in Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualifying
against Mali, who later made an official complaint which led to the Confederation of AfricanFootball's Nations Cup ban.
The two-time continental
champions were subsequently disqualified from the 2016 Nations Cup finals in
Cameroon (replaced by Mali) as well as the next two tournaments.
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