Canada Soccer, COC Statement on Appeal of FIFA Sanctions

Earlier today, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Soccer have appealed FIFA’s automatic deduction of six points from the Canadian Soccer Association’s Women’s representative team’s standing in Group A of the Olympic Football Tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics. 

The appeal is based on the disproportionality of the sanction, which we believe unfairly punishes the athletes for actions they had no part in and goes far beyond restoring fairness to the match against New Zealand. The appeal has been submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Ad Hoc Tribunal in Paris for the Olympic Games, which allows matters to be heard on an expedited basis during the Games.

In order to preserve the integrity of the appeal process we will wait until the process is complete to comment further.