The final of the 2025 African Cup of Nations continues to be shrouded in controversy after the decision of the African Football Confederation (CAF) decided to take the title away from Senegal and award it to Morocco. In the last few hours, while awaiting the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) on the incident, the African body received two official reports supporting the Moroccan coronation
.These are the referee report and the report of the party's commissioner, two key documents that agree in pointing to the abandonment of the Senegalese team as the determining point of the scandal. The first describes the interruption of the match after the penalty sanctioned in favor of Morocco, while the second details the incidents, the time the game was stopped and the impact that the players' departure had on the normal development of the
final.The report of the general coordinator of the match, Khaled Lemkecher, was overwhelming: "The players went to the locker room, leaving the game “, making it clear that only Sadio Mané remained on the field during that episode.
Along the same lines, Olivier Safari, president of the CAF Referees Committee, explained one of the decisions taken in the midst of the chaos: "Every Senegalese player who retired should have been reprimanded immediately upon returning to the field, but we gave instructions not to do so to preserve the match and avoid its premature
