CAF disqualifies Senegal from AfCON

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has disqualified Senegal from next year’s Africa Cup of Nations. This follows the meeting of the CAF Disciplinary Committee on Tuesday to look into the incidents that led to the abandonment of match the match against Ivory Coast.

According to reports from CAFonline.com “CAF cited prompting the referee to stop the match after 74 minutes of match had been played. As a result CAF decided to officially confirm the result of the match as 2-0 in favour of Ivory Coast in accordance with the provisions of article 16 paragraph 20 of the regulations of the competition and to consider Senegal the loser of the said match and eliminated from the competition without prejudice to any other sanctions that may be imposed by CAF Disciplinary Board,” CAF states.