Scotland’s World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine has been postponed until June but Wales v Austria will go ahead as planned, Fifa has confirmed. The Ukraine football authorities made a request to Fifa last week to postpone their game scheduled for 24 March at Hampden Park. The winners were scheduled to meet Wales or Austria in a play-off final on 29 March but the final will now take place in June as well. Fifa also announced that Poland, who had been due to play Russia, would receive a bye to a play-off final against Sweden or the Czech Republic. “On March 3 2022, the Ukrainian Association of Football wrote to Fifa requesting that its qualification match(es) be rescheduled owing to the impossibility of organising both the travel and training of a team under the current circumstances,” a Fifa statement read. “Following consultation with Uefa and the four participating member associations in Path A of the European qualifying play-offs, it was unanimously agreed in the spirit of solidarity to accept this request.” The Scottish Football Association has been in regular contact with Fifa and Uefa since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to discuss the play-off game and a women’s World Cup qualifier between the countries, scheduled for 8 April. Scotland’s captains, Andy Robertson and Rachel Corsie, last week expressed solidarity with Ukraine’s footballers. The men’s team are due to host Ukraine in the Uefa Nations League on 7 June and to play the Republic of Ireland and a double header against Armenia in June’s Nations League schedule. “Alternative fixtures for affected teams in the March window are being explored by the relevant parties,” Fifa said. It explained that Wales’s game against Austria would not be moved “to limit the disruption to the competitive matches already scheduled for the June window in what is an already congested calendar”.