{"id":14816,"date":"2026-03-19T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/senegal-stripped-of-afcon-title-as-morocco-crowned-champions-after-controversial-final\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:12:05","slug":"senegal-stripped-of-afcon-title-as-morocco-crowned-champions-after-controversial-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/senegal-stripped-of-afcon-title-as-morocco-crowned-champions-after-controversial-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal Stripped of AFCON Title as Morocco Crowned Champions After Controversial Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post\">\n<p>In an unprecedented and highly controversial decision, Senegal have been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2034021397132153218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stripped<\/a> of their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title months after their on-field victory, with Morocco officially declared champions following a ruling by African football\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on 17 March overturned Senegal\u2019s 1\u20130 extra-time win and awarded Morocco a 3\u20130 victory by default.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling stems from chaotic scenes during the final, held on 18 January in Rabat. Late in stoppage time, Morocco were awarded a contentious penalty following a VAR&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/2026\/03\/18\/senegal-stripped-of-afcon-title-as-morocco-crowned-champions-after-controversial-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented and highly controversial decision, Senegal have been stripped of their Africa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-1192"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}