West Ham have been fined £71,000 by Fifa for breaching rules over striker Diafra Sakho but no action has been taken over their place in the FA Cup. Striker Sakho withdrew from Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations squad with a back injury but scored 18 days later in West Ham's Cup win at Bristol City. Football's governing body say a player cannot appear for his team when he should be on international duty, reports BBC Sport.
Fifa has reprimanded both the club and the 25-year-old forward.
But the Hammers have escaped potential expulsion from the FA Cup and will travel to West Brom in the fifth round on Saturday 14 February.
Fifa fined the Hammers 100,000 Swiss francs (£71,000) after a disciplinary committee found the club and the player to have violated its regulations by playing in the 1-0 Cup win at Ashton Gate.
