Frankfurt  - Borussia Dortmund midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng was on Wednesday banned for four games by the German football federation DFB over a red-card offence in a Bundesliga match the previous day.

Boateng was sent off in Dortmund's 3-0 defeat at league leaders VfL Wolfsburg when he kicked Wolfsburg's Japanese player Makoto Hasebe in the face while fighting for the ball.

It appeared that the foul was not intentional, but Boateng will miss the final two top flight games of the season and the first two of the next campaign.(dpa)