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Expert opinion: Senegal has a strong chance of reclaiming its 2025 AFCON trophy Exclusive Senegal has a strong chance of reclaiming its 2025 AFCON trophy, according to a legal expert Sénégal/@caf Against all odds, the appeals committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to strip Senegal of the 2025 AFCON trophy and award it to Morocco. This announcement sent shockwaves throughout the football world. Never before has a title been taken away from a nation several weeks after the final of a continental tournament.

However, this decision is not final. Senegal can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to challenge the CAF appeals committee's ruling. According to Tunisian legal expert Aymen Driss, the "Lions" have a strong chance of reclaiming their trophy.

Here are his arguments. The CAF appeals committee invoked Article 84 of the Africa Cup of Nations regulations to declare Senegal the loser and award the title to Morocco. This article refers to Article 82 of the same regulations, which states that any team leaving the pitch before the end of regulation time without the referee's permission is considered to have lost and is permanently eliminated from the ongoing competition.

Reading this article in its absolute form, one could argue that there is, in principle, a legal basis to support the decision. However, applying this rule to the final is problematic: the issue here is leaving the pitch, and while the Senegalese team did indeed leave, they returned afterwards and play resumed without the referee ending the match definitively. The game continued through regulation time and into extra time.