{"id":334883,"date":"2026-03-18T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:21:09","slug":"africa-cup-of-nations-senegal-stripped-of-title-morocco-crowned-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334883\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Cup of Nations: Senegal stripped of title, Morocco crowned champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senegal’s forward Sadio Mane and team members celebrate their victory at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n

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The Confederation of African Football today stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations title they won in January and declared Morocco champions.<\/p>\n

Several Senegalese players had temporarily left the pitch late in the match in protest at a refereeing decision.<\/p>\n

\n The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said \u201cthe Senegal
\n national team is declared to have forfeited the match\u201d, a 1-0 victory in the final, \u201cwith the result being officially recorded as 3-0\u201d in favour of Morocco.\n <\/p>\n

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) said in a statement \u201cits action was never intended to contest the sporting performance of the teams participating in this competition, but solely to request the application of the competition regulations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Minutes before the end of the match, some Senegalese supporters attempted a pitch invasion, while Senegal\u2019s players halted the game for nearly 20 minutes to protest a late penalty awarded to Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 17 Mar, 2026 10:53 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190,10466,31100,179533,13114,10542,12817,5213,68199,23433,17154,111,139,69,1118,90642,213,34703,8229,2563,1865],"class_list":["post-334883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-champions","tag-confederation","tag-crowned","tag-cup","tag-declared","tag-football","tag-january","tag-morocco","tag-nations","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-senegal","tag-sports","tag-stripped","tag-they","tag-title","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}