{"id":481272,"date":"2026-03-18T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481272\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:39:08","slug":"afcon-final-result-overturned-senegal-stripped-of-title-due-to-player-walk-off-as-caf-hands-morocco-3-0-final-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481272\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON final result OVERTURNED! Senegal stripped of title due to player walk-off as CAF hands Morocco 3-0 final win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CAF statement read: &#8220;The Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Africaine de Football (\u201cCAF\u201d) Appeal Board decided today that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the Senegal National Team is declared to have forfeited the Final Match of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 (\u201cthe Match\u201d), with the result of the Match being recorded as 3\u20130 in favour of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the appeal by the FRMF regarding the application of Articles 82 and 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the CAF Appeal Board made the following rulings:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The appeal lodged by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF) is declared admissible in form and the appeal is upheld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CAF Disciplinary Board decision is set aside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CAF Appeal Board further finds that the conduct of the Senegal team falls within the scope of Articles 82 and 84 of the Regulations of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The protest lodged by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF) is upheld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is declared that the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise de Football (FSF), through the conduct of its team, infringed Article 82 of the Regulations of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the Africa Cup of Nations, the Senegal team is declared to have forfeited the match, with the result recorded as 3\u20130 in favour of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All other motions or prayers for relief are dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CAF statement read: &#8220;The Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Africaine de Football (\u201cCAF\u201d) Appeal Board decided today that in application of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[82427,49,16244,50,60000,171065,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-481272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-headlines","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-senegal","tag-senegal-vs-morocco","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}