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The Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) has announced that it will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the decision of the Appeal Board of the African Football Confederation (CAF) to declare Senegal the loser due to “non-appearance” in the final of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2025 and record the result as 3-0 in favor of Morocco, which grants the title to the Moroccan team despite the fact that the result was 0-1 for the Senegalese. <\/p>\n
In a statement, the Senegalese Federation denounced an “iniquitous, unprecedented and unacceptable decision” that, in its opinion, “casts discredit on African football”, and confirmed that it will begin “in the shortest possible time”<\/strong> an appeal to the CAS of Lausanne to defend “the rights and interests of Senegalese football”. <\/p>\n The Senegalese organization also reiterated its “unwavering commitment to the values \u200b\u200bof integrity and sporting justice” and assured that it will keep the public informed about the evolution of this case, which opens a new legal front regarding the outcome of the last African Cup. <\/p>\n The episode dates back to the final of the tournament, played in Morocco, when the Senegalese team left the field of play and threatened not to return in protest for a penalty awarded in favor of the host team<\/strong>. Striker Brahim D\u00edaz launched that maximum penalty with a Panenka-style attempt that did not end in a goal, at a moment of maximum tension in the match. <\/p>\n On the grass, Senegal would end up winning 1-0 after extra time<\/strong>Thanks to a goal from Pape Gueye, a result that initially gave them the continental title and prolonged Morocco’s drought despite hosting the tournament. <\/p>\n However, after the claim presented by the Moroccan federation and its subsequent appeal, the CAF Appeals Board decided to revoke the initial ruling and declare the administrative defeat of Senegal, registering the official result as 3-0 for Morocco<\/strong>. <\/p>\n As reported by CAF, its appeal body upheld the appeal presented by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) and annulled the previous resolution of the Disciplinary Jury, considering that in the first instance the appellant’s right to be heard during the procedure had not been respected. <\/p>\n In application of the articles 82 and 84 of the African Cup of Nations regulations<\/strong>the CAF concluded that the behavior of the Senegalese team during the match constitutes a regulatory infraction and declared the team “guilty of losing by non-appearance” the final played on January 18. <\/p>\n “In application of article 84 of the regulations, the Senegal national team was declared guilty of losing the final match by default, registering the result of the match as 3-0<\/strong> in favor of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation,” said the African organization on its website. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) has announced that it will appeal to the Court of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The controversy<\/h2>\n