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Russia beat Turkey 2-1 Friday in their first UEFA Nations League game.

Three Turkish teams are set to play in the group stages of the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League.

A decision by European football's governing body on the financial fair play situation of Istanbul's Galatasaray will "likely" be announced in June, a UEFA official has said.

UEFA's ethics and disciplinary body has banned Albania's top soccer team Skenderbeu for ten years and fined it a million euros after finding it guilty of running a large-scale betting scam following a two-year investigation.

In an interview with the STA on the sidelines of a UEFA congress in Bratislava, Čeferin confirmed he would run for another term in 2019 and added that "it presently appears as if there will be no rival candidate".

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) announced this on its website, adding that the anonymous death threats "presumably intended to intimidate the inspectors, and stop them carrying out their work" - but that "these threats will not succeed, and the police have also been informed."

LAUSANNE - The Serbia men's national football team was on Wednesday drawn to play Montenegro, Lithuania and Romania in Group 4 of UEFA Nations League C.

The group winners will be promoted to Nations League B, with the last-placed teams to be relegated to Nations League D.

Greece will only have to head north for its first campaign in the UEFA Nations League, the new tournament of national teams that offers an alternative path to the Euro 2020 finals.

The Greek team was drawn on Wednesday to face Hungary, Finland and Estonia in a round-robin group of games to take place next fall, from September to November.

The Bulgarian national football team was selected into Group 3 of League C of the new UEFA tournament League of Nations. Rivals of the "tricolors" in the first edition of the competition will be the teams of Slovenia, Norway and Cyprus, decided the draw today in Nyon, Switzerland.

The competition will take place between 30 January and 10 February in Ljubljana, with two matches back-to-back on each match day at Arena Stožice. Tickets are available in two categories, €7 and €5, one ticket valid for both matches on that day.