{"id":481791,"date":"2026-03-18T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:26:08","slug":"senegal-stripped-of-afcon-title-as-morocco-declared-2025-winners-due-to-player-walk-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481791\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal stripped of AFCON title as Morocco declared 2025 winners due to player walk-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) reads: \u201cThe CAF Appeal Board decided that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/afcon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFCON<\/a>), 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).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) reads: \u201cThe CAF Appeal Board decided that in application&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97089,49,16244,50,60000,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-481791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-afcon","tag-headlines","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-senegal","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481791","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=481791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}