European football’s governing body has maintained its threat to boycott FIFA competitions despite FIFA’s apology for its failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup.

UEFA yesterday reiterated that it had lost confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino and said conditions for withdrawing its boycott threat had not been met.

“UEFA’s associations were very clear about the conditions attached to the non-participation in FIFA competitions,” it said in a statement. “First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn, and secondly, assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again.