Hungary suspended for two matches for discriminatory behavior by fans at the 2021 European Cup

Dishonest Already ordered UEFA Three home games behind closed doors due to “discriminatory behavior” supporter in Euro 2020.

The third game of the three matches will be suspended for two years, and the Hungarian Football Association will also be fined 100,000 euros.

UEFA also ordered a banner with the message “#EqualGame” and the UEFA logo to be displayed in the next two games in Budapest.

UEFA’s ruling-which does not apply to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers and falls within FIFA’s mandate-came after they appointed an ethics and discipline inspector to investigate the 2 June 23rd in Munich and Hungary. -2 After the “potential discrimination incident” during the lottery of Group F. .

The European football governing body has begun investigating Hungary’s match against Portugal and France in Budapest.

In the opener against Portugal, pictures on social media showed that among some fans in the Puskas Arena, the banner read “Anti-LMBTQ”-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Hungarian abbreviation for queer and queer.

Before Hungary’s second Group F match against France, some Hungarian supporters marched to the Puskas Arena with banners, calling on the players to stop kneeling to protest racism.

UEFA later rejected the request to illuminate Munich’s Allianz Arena with a rainbow of colors in the Hungary-German match, on the grounds that this gesture had a political background.

The European football governing body said it received a request from the German city mayor Dieter Reiter. UEFA stated that the mayor’s reason for this request was in response to legislation passed by Hungary that prohibits homosexuals from appearing in school education materials or programs for children under 18 years of age.

On this basis, UEFA stated that it could not approve the request and proposed an alternative date for the stadium to light up in rainbow colors. Leiter later called the ruling “shameful.”