{"id":5501,"date":"2026-03-17T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/caf-strips-senegal-of-afcon-title-morocco-declared-african-champions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:36","slug":"caf-strips-senegal-of-afcon-title-morocco-declared-african-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/caf-strips-senegal-of-afcon-title-morocco-declared-african-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF strips Senegal of AFCON title, Morocco declared African champions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governing body\u2019s appeal board rules Senegal forfeited January final after players walked off pitch to protest referring decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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African football\u2019s governing body has stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title they won in a chaotic final<\/a> two months ago and declared Morocco the champions.<\/p>\n

In a stunning decision, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said on Tuesday that its appeals board ruled that Senegal is \u201cdeclared to have forfeited\u201d the match, a 1-0 victory. The result, it said, was now \u201cbeing officially recorded as 3-0\u201d \u200cin favour of host nation Morocco.<\/p>\n

At the January 18 final in Rabat<\/a>, Senegal\u2019s players walked off the pitch, led by coach Pape Thiaw, in protest against a penalty awarded late in regulation time to Morocco.<\/p>\n

When play resumed after a delay of about 15 minutes, Morocco forward Brahim Diaz\u2019s penalty was saved. In extra time, Pape Gueye scored the decisive goal that saw Senegal become champions of Africa for the second time.<\/p>\n

The heated final also saw supporters trying to storm the field, players scuffling on the sidelines, reporters from the two countries fighting in media areas, and a bizarre sequence in which Moroccan ball boys tried to seize a towel being used by Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy \u2013 in an apparent bid to distract him and help their team win the continental title.<\/p>\n

At a disciplinary hearing in January, CAF imposed fines<\/a> of more than $1m as well as bans for Senegal and Morocco players and officials, but it had left the result untouched.<\/p>\n

The case could go to a further appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governing body\u2019s appeal board rules Senegal forfeited January final after players walked off pitch to protest referring decision. African football\u2019s governing body has stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title they won in a chaotic final two months ago and declared Morocco the champions. In a stunning decision, the Confederation of African … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}