{"id":482078,"date":"2026-03-18T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482078\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:37:09","slug":"we-will-not-back-down-senegal-vow-to-appeal-after-africa-cup-of-nations-title-stripped-senegal-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482078\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will not back down\u2019: Senegal vow to appeal after Africa Cup of Nations title stripped | Senegal football team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senegalese football federation has described the decision to strip the country of January\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations title<\/a> as a \u201ctravesty\u201d and said it will appeal to the court of arbitration for sport.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Morocco were awarded a 3-0 win<\/a> by the Confederation of African Football in an unprecedented ruling. Caf\u2019s appeal board said Senegal were \u201cdeclared to have forfeited the final\u201d after their head coach, Pape Thiaw, and some of his players left the pitch for 15 minutes in protest at Morocco being awarded a late penalty. After the game resumed Brahim D\u00edaz\u2019s spot\u2011kick was saved and the final went to extra time, when Pape Gueye scored what was, until Tuesday, the winning goal.<\/p>\n

Abdoulaye Seydou Sow, secretary general of the Senegalese FA, told the public broadcaster Radiodiffusion T\u00e9l\u00e9vision S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise: \u201cThis is a travesty; this decision is based on absolutely nothing. It has no legal foundation. The president of the federation will get in touch with the lawyers; we will engage with the appropriate authorities, and then we will go to the court of arbitration for sport, which will issue the final decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sow described the ruling as a \u201cshame for Africa\u201d and said: \u201cWe will not back down. Senegalese people should have no doubt. The truth is on Senegal\u2019s side, the law is on Senegal\u2019s side.\u201d<\/p>\n

At an initial disciplinary hearing, Caf had imposed fines of more than $1m and bans for Senegal and Morocco players and officials but left the result untouched.<\/p>\n

The Senegalese FA said it denounced \u201cthis unfair, unprecedented and unacceptable decision, which casts a shadow over African football\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senegalese football federation has described the decision to strip the country of January\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482078","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=482078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}