FIFA has expelled Equatorial Guinea from the 2019 Women’s World Cup for using fake documents and selecting at least 10 ineligible players in its Olympic team.

Two more Equatorial Guinea players will serve 10-match international bans for using “forged and falsified documents” to claim nationality, the world governing body said on Thursday.

Equatorial Guinea’s federation was also fined 100,000 Swiss francs (£80,000) by Fifa. The small, oil-rich country on Africa’s west coast has been implicated in trying to buy success by enticing foreign players, mostly from Brazil.