Real facing a ban over Nazi salutes

UEFA could make Real Madrid play behind closed doors - or even throw them out of the Champions League - following more racist chanting at the Bernabeu.

A week after appalling crowd behaviour in the same stadium during England's friendly international against Spain, Real's followers made Nazi salutes and abused Bayer Leverkusen's black defender Roque Junior during last night's 1-1 draw.

UEFA, the game's European governing body, will receive a report in the next 48 hours from officials at the stadium and the match referee before issuing any sanctions. The Spanish giants could be ejected from the tournament, but are more likely to be fined or forced to play their home games behind closed doors or at a different location.

UEFA spokesman William Gaillard said: "The punishment will depend on the gravity of the matter - whether it was the whole stadium or whether it was a small group of people. It could range from banning the stadium and making the team play away or behind closed doors, to even the exclusion of the team.

"For an issue of violence recently, Roma had two games away from their stadium. The Slovakia team were made to play one game at a different location after racist chanting against England a couple of years ago.

"Fines were issued last week for incidents in the Sparta Prague and Seville games. We will see what is in the report from Madrid."