{"id":509966,"date":"2026-03-17T18:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509966"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:50:51","slug":"afcon-declare-morocco-the-champion-after-senegal-forfeits","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/afcon-declare-morocco-the-champion-after-senegal-forfeits\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON declare Morocco the champion after Senegal forfeits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco was shockingly given the Africa Cup of Nations title today by appeals judges who overturned Senegal&#8217;s win in a chaotic final at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football shared that Senegal was &#8220;declared to have forfeited the Final,&#8221; and its 1-0 victory in extra time becomes a 3-0 default triumph for the host nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b: \ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfce\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd3 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc16\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc12<\/p>\n<p>Morocco have officially been awarded the AFCON 2025 title after Senegal were ruled to have forfeited the final. The CAF Appeal Board decided that Senegal breached tournament regulations, meaning\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lvk1KCSdQw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Lvk1KCSdQw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/2034024460185981135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the January 18<sup>th<\/sup> final in Rabat, Senegal footballers left the pitch in protest during stoppage time for 15 minutes, and the supporters tried to storm the field when the host nation received a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>When the match resumed, Morocco striker Brahim D\u00edaz missed the penalty, and Senegal scored the only goal in the extra time.<\/p>\n<p>At the 1<sup>st<\/sup> disciplinary hearing, CAF imposed fines of over a million dollars and suspensions for Senegal and Morocco footballers and officials, but didn\u2019t change the final result.<\/p>\n<p>However, that\u2019s not the end of the saga as the case could go to a further appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport based in Lausanne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The CAF Appeal Board decided 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),\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CAF Media (@CAF_Media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Media\/status\/2034021397132153218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco was shockingly given the Africa Cup of Nations title today by appeals judges who overturned Senegal&#8217;s win in a chaotic final at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509967,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17156,27095],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[23196,6198],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"In a very dramatic fashion, the title was given to Morocco.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509968,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509966\/revisions\/509968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509966"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509966"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}