FIFA has issued two lifetime bans to football coaches

FIFA have enforced sanctions and punishments on many clubs, nations, players, referees and presidents over the years but only two managers/coaches have been prohibited from any involvement in football.

Individuals serving lifetime bans include former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, and the former Brazilian FA presidents Marco Polo del Nero and Ricardo Teixeira.

63 players were banned for life for a multitude of reasons, varying from match fixing to doping and aggressive behaviour towards official.

But the number for managers is much less, where Samson Siasia and Patrick Assoumou Eyi appear to be the only individuals forbidden from coaching.

Why was Samson Siasia banned for life?

Siasia, who played for the likes of Nantes and Al Hilal and won the Africa Cup of Nations, in his playing career, had two spells in charge of the Nigeria national team, including between 2010 and 2011 and then in 2016.

But in 2019, he was hit with a lifetime ban for "agreeing to receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches" - according to FIFA.

"The adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee has found Siasia, a former official of the Nigeria Football Federation, guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics," the governing body's official statement read.

Samson Siasia had his banned reduced following an appeal. Image: Getty

He was banned from all football-related activities at both national and international level, as well as being fined 50,000 Swiss Francs, following an investigation into links to convicted match fixer Wilson Raj Peruma.

Two years later and an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport proved successful as his fine was cancelled and the suspension reduced to five years.

Why was Patrick Assoumou Eyi banned for life?

Earlier this year, the disgraced Eyi was found guilty of repeated sexual abuse against multiple young players during his spell in charge of the Gabon youth team.

Claims were first made in 2021 and Eyi, nicknamed 'Capello', was provisionally suspended by FIFA when its independent ethics committee launched an investigation.

Eyri admitted charges of raping, grooming and exploiting young players and in a decision supported by FIFPro, the international players’ union, he was banned for life and fined 1 million Swiss francs (£878,000).

FIFA issued the ban, which remains in place. Image: Getty

The statement from FIFA read: "The investigation into Mr Eyi concerns complaints from at least four male football players who accused him of sexual abuse between 2006 and 2021. Most of these incidents occurred while the players were minors.

“In its decision, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Eyi had breached article 24 (Protection of physical and mental integrity) and article 26 (Abuse of position) of the Fifa code of ethics and sanctioned him with a lifetime ban from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level. In addition, a fine in the amount of CHF 1,000,000 has been imposed on Mr Eyi.”