football games cannot happen because they are banned by UEFA even though many people say you shouldn't mix politics with football sometimes that is actually impossible to do and so it's kind of obvious that UEFA have banned any game between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. that goes for the two national teams but also for clubs from both Nations when they draw the qualifiers or groups for Champions League Europa League or conference League UEFA do make sure that no Russian team face any Ukrainian team an interesting one is Spain against Gibraltar while the rock is geographically located within Spain it is controlled by the United Kingdom the two countries have been arguing over this fourth Century there's still a lot of tension so luckily for Gibraltar they avoid at least one of the eight nil threshings Armenia and Azerbaijan have been arguing over the karabakh region for a long time as well now so those two countries cannot face each other in a football game either but the most problematic country for UEFA is actually Kosovo after a ton of territorial disputes and also wars in the last decades the Balkan team cannot face Russia Bosnia and of course Serbia knowing how football fans are and at the same time how boring games behind closed doors are it probably makes sense that