{"id":29064,"date":"2026-03-18T07:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29064"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:53:34","slug":"morocco-crowned-afcon-champions-after-caf-strips-senegal-of-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/morocco-crowned-afcon-champions-after-caf-strips-senegal-of-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco crowned AFCON champions after CAF strips Senegal of title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Senegal has been stripped of their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title and the trophy has been awarded to Morocco.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ruling of the Confederation of African Football comes after Morocco\u2019s Football Federation lodged an appeal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The January 18 final in Rabat descended into chaos after hosts Morocco were awarded a penalty late into normal time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Senegal left the pitch for 15 minutes and when they returned, the hosts squandered the penalty kick.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Senegal scored in extra time and went on to win the match 1-0.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, the CAF Appeal Board determined that the conduct of the Senegalese national team warranted a severe penalty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It ruled that Senegal forfeited the final and awarded a three-nil victory to Morocco.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22707,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-29064","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The January 18 final in Rabat descended into chaos","published_date":"","news_description":"The January 18 final in Rabat descended into chaos","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29066,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29064\/revisions\/29066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}