CAS confirms Senegal appeal against CAF’s decision to hand AFCON title to Morocco

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, has confirmed that the Senegalese Football Federation has appealed the determination of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, to portion Senegal of their Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, title.

FSF submitted their entreaty connected Tuesday, March 25 and they are seeking “to acceptable speech the CAF determination and state the FSF winners of AFCON”.

They besides requested an contiguous suspension of the clip bounds to taxable an entreaty little until the CAF determination is notified with afloat grounds.

A CAS Arbitral Panel volition beryllium appointed to see this matter.

Following this, a procedural calendar volition beryllium established.

CAS Director General, Matthieu Reeb, said: “CAS is perfectly equipped to resoluteness this benignant of dispute, with the assistance of adept and autarkic arbitrators.

“We recognize that teams and fans are anxious to cognize the last decision, and we volition guarantee that arbitration proceedings are conducted arsenic swiftly arsenic possible, portion respecting the close of each parties to a just hearing.”

CAS confirms Senegal entreaty against CAF’s determination to manus AFCON rubric to Morocco