Fifa has dropped Saudi Arabian referee Fahad Al-Mirdasi from the 2018 World Cup after he was banned for a match-fixing attempt in his country.
Al-Mirdasi was already banned from officiating for life by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF).
The body claims he confessed to trying to fix the King’s Cup final between Al-Ittihad and Al-Faisaly.
After considering evidence, Fifa said “the conditions to be selected for the World Cup are not satisfied anymore”.