FIFA have urged competition organisers to use "common sense" when dealing with players who display messages of support to the George Floyd movement.
Floyd was killed in the United States by a police offer and his death has sparked mass protests.
Several Bundesliga players helped lend their support to the protests at the weekend with Jadon Sancho lifting his shirt to show a message of "Justice for George Floyd" after scoring a hat-trick.
His Borussia Dortmund team-mate Achraf Hakimi did similarly despite FIFA regulations prohibiting players from displaying any "political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images" on their kit.
That rule came into play back in 2014 but in a statement issued on Tuesday football's governing body said it "fully understands the depth of sentiment and concerns expressed by many footballers in light of the tragic circumstances of the George Floyd case".
Schalke's Weston McKennie showed a similar message to Sancho and Hakimi while Borussia Monchengladbach's Marcus Thuram took a knee after scoring.
The German Football Association has said it was reviewing the incidents where the message was shown.
However FIFA have said that applying the laws of the game was the responsibility of competition organisers, such as domestic leagues, and they "should use common sense and have in consideration the context surrounding the events".
"FIFA had repeatedly expressed itself to be resolutely against racism and discrimination of any kind and recently strengthened its own disciplinary rules with a view to helping to eradicate such behaviors," it continued in the statement.
"FIFA itself has promoted many anti-racism campaigns which frequently carry the anti-racism message at matches organised under its own auspices."
