African Football Discussion Thread Current Topic: 👉 AFCON 2025/2026

[Agbamoni]

..because I absolutely don’t understand why you will be parading a trophy when the CAF have authorized them to return the trophy and that is  what they have refused to do it makes them look a very stupid and foolish set of players, because the Title have been taken away from them, now they’ve forgotten that they could be banned from competing in the AFCON for years

Im glad you are not in the position to give justice, you will be ruthless and heartless because of the law. Law is not everything. True justice is given when truth is at the forefront. Will you deny that Moroccans had it easy with the referee? Did you forget how they seize goalkeepers towel, attacked players who helped the goalkeeper, as well as all the illegal things they did during the AFCON? Yet, you still think they deserve the AFCON with one silly excuse of law from CAF. Bullshit!!

Shift to the side!!!

The likes of you are the ones who go on to support the corruption of CAF, CAF deserve the embarrassment that Senegal is giving them because they put themselves there choosing to use politics to change the outcome of a game two months after. Senegal may not even be interested in playing in the AFCON after this. Did you hear of the rumor that they transferred the trophy to their military base to make it harder for CAF to colllect back. There will be consequences but they do not care.

Haha, the AFCON discussion thread is becoming more interesting every minute of the day.

Jostern and I have never come to an agreement in football. I am on the good side, but he always finds himself supporting the wrong thing because the legal side back em up.

[Ale88]

Congratulations to Morocco for winning the AFCON, it was well deserved, I’m a huge fan of people getting justice for misconduct, Senegal doesn’t deserve to be called African Champions because they are a disgrace to African football, they let African down and made a mess of themselves and African football for walking off the pitch and refusing to play, I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life, it was good that justice was served, and other teams countries who would also have to do the same thing in future will have to learn about this verdict of the consequences of Senegalese actions, they brought this on themselves they have made a mess of themselves now they’re not African Champions anymore, because of a horrible decision of walking off the pitch for no reason because you feel the referee gave a penalty, and it was a clear and obvious penalty.

I’m very happy about this verdict, it was totally against the rules, to refuse playing and abandon the game for 10 minutes and refused playing, it was a very hilarious decision and it was unacceptable, I’m happy CAF have done the right thing, stripe them off the tittle so they will learn, and other teams should also learn from it.

Once again Congratulations to Morocco for winning the 2025 AFCON.

Who is this?
Is like you are watching football from your anus because if you are truly an African, you will support every actions the Senegalese team took that night, and talking of being deserving of the trophy, what makes you think that they deserves it when they can't defeat the Senegalese team on the field of play and the referee and caf were doing everything in their power just to give it to the moroccans.

Shame on you, caf and all those celebrating thus despicable decision taken by caf, because this is not the African football or African cup of nations I loved watching growing up.

I'm not even African and I feel bad for those who think like this Jostern. If you don't understand how this decision ruined, even more, African's football image, it's sad. They tried everything they could in order to make Morocco win, and the end they managed to do in the worst possible way. And the Moroccan people celebrating in the streets, three months later? So sad, please have some dignity, I would be ashamed of winning a tournament in this way, let alone celebrating in public three months later.
I was happy for what Morocco did during the last World Cup because it was huge for African football; now probably the rest of the continent hates them...

[DYOR+BTC]

Yesterday Senegal played a game, and they seems to be parading the AFCON Trophy around the pitch which seems like it was a very intentional act from them, and it makes them look ridiculous, because I absolutely don’t understand why you will be parading a trophy when the CAF have authorized them to return the trophy and that is  what they have refused to do it makes them look a very stupid and foolish set of players, because the Title have been taken away from them, now they’ve forgotten that they could be banned from competing in the AFCON for years, and that makes everything ridiculous, this single act makes them a terrible set of players who aren’t responsible and disgusting, they lack integrity and discipline.

When you get something on merit is different from getting it through tricks, I will say there reason of showing up with the trophy is to let the world know they where crowned the champions of Africa in 2025  on merit and  not by tricks the same way CAF is trying to give it to Morocco after there controversial decisions. To me I was very happy seeing them come in with that trophy to let all know they fought relentlessly for the trophy before getting it and will still win even if the game is replayed now.

There performance on the game was super excellent as they where possessive starting from the first half of the game to the till the end and even went home victorious

[Adiljutt156]

Yesterday Senegal played a game, and they seems to be parading the AFCON Trophy around the pitch which seems like it was a very intentional act from them, and it makes them look ridiculous, because I absolutely don’t understand why you will be parading a trophy when the CAF have authorized them to return the trophy and that is  what they have refused to do it makes them look a very stupid and foolish set of players, because the Title have been taken away from them, now they’ve forgotten that they could be banned from competing in the AFCON for years, and that makes everything ridiculous, this single act makes them a terrible set of players who aren’t responsible and disgusting, they lack integrity and discipline.

Peru national football team played very bad against Senegal national football team and that was one sided match because one team was totally dominant on all things and they tried to do back to back goals in this match and Senegal national football team did 2 goals in this match.  The confidence of players was great in this match because they have mindset of winners ,not of losers . Peru football team performance was very bad in this match because they could not play according to expectations and we saw one sided game and we don't like that kind of game in which one team plays well and other team is playing like they have no skill.  The stats of Senegal football team  was great in this match because they have excellent combination of players in their team.

[Roseline492]

Yesterday Senegal played a game, and they seems to be parading the AFCON Trophy around the pitch which seems like it was a very intentional act from them, and it makes them look ridiculous, because I absolutely don’t understand why you will be parading a trophy when the CAF have authorized them to return the trophy and that is  what they have refused to do it makes them look a very stupid and foolish set of players, because the Title have been taken away from them, now they’ve forgotten that they could be banned from competing in the AFCON for years, and that makes everything ridiculous, this single act makes them a terrible set of players who aren’t responsible and disgusting, they lack integrity and discipline.

The game was a friendly match with Peru and as the first match after the final, Senegal won. The AFCON problem did not even affect them as I thought that any friendly or serious match would will reduce their confident because no country would see a ganged up on them and be happy for it. The friendly was on the Senegal home so definitely you will see people parading the cup, it might continue even if they are to play more friendlies matches and since it was on there country they are not stupid for doing that and even if they have not return the cup definitely when the situation get treated properly they would do so.

[Davidvictorson]

Is any one following up with the news of Senegal parading the AFCON CUP, especially in their latest friendly against Peru? What do you think about it? I learned CAF is going to fine them. I would love to hear your general thoughts on this. Thank you.

[snipie]

The general secretary of the CAF has resigned. Even though he didn't express a direct relationship with what's going on with the Confederation of African Football issues, especially the last AFCON incident but I think it is undeniable.
CAF has a lot of trust issues from the past already and here they go with a new one. This resignation and also the delay of the female version of AFCON. The big blow up will be once the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturn their decision against Senegal which made its appeal to them already. I believe FIFA will try to save them as usual but who knows for how long it will cover them.

[Rruchi man]

Ghanaians are sad about that friendly whooping of ass by the Austrians, their fans wouldn’t be happy with that result but they’ll console themselves in that Nigeria isn’t going to the World Cup.

It's just a friendly bro. I wouldn't engage Ghana in a banter ...

It is agreed that it is just a friendly game, but why can it not be that it is Ghana who are on the winning side?

I would have understood if the team they were playing against were a strong side like the team they are going to play next, which is Germany, but losing by such a huge goal margin to Austria, a country not known to be a football power, shows that they will be weak representatives of Africa in the World Cup.

Senegal will be better.

[Mayor of ogba]

I saw the CAF presidents statement about Senegal being fined and must return the trophy to Morocco or face more fines and I'm so disappointed such person is President of CAF. I hear people talk about how Morocco bribed CAF to favour them with their rules and make them winners, well that's their opinion cause it might not be true but when you see CAF's judgement you could conclude that they've been bribed my Morocco to make them winners as host.

CAF should accept they were wrong in trying to strip off Senegal the African Cup of Nations for this matter to die in order to save African football but if they insist that Senegal must return the trophy to Morocco and they want to use fine and force Senegal to do that, they should just know that Senegal won't be moved by that, and Senegal will keep humiliating them. With the way the referees were blowing in favour of Morocco in the African Cup of Nations, you don't need someone to tell you that CAF wanted Morocco to win the African Cup of Nations even though Morocco didn't bribed CAF, but I am so happy that the plan of Morocco and CAF didn't materialize.

[Italian Panic]

It’s truly unbelievable that maroccan player celebrate a trophy won in court; if I were one of their fans, I wouldn’t go to watch this, and if I were a player, I would refuse the medal and donate the prize money to a fund for Senegalese children. This highlights all the instability within the African Football Confederation. As far as I’m concerned, the pitch has spoken and said ‘Senegal’, and so Senegal is the 2026 African champion.

[Jegileman]

Is any one following up with the news of Senegal parading the AFCON CUP, especially in their latest friendly against Peru? What do you think about it? I learned CAF is going to fine them. I would love to hear your general thoughts on this. Thank you.

I’m surprised that CAF will fine them for that after stripping them off the trophy. I heard they’ve taken the case to the court and have filed a case against it to retain the title which they claim they truly won, so maybe I thought it was enough for them to actually parade the title. All I can say about this is that, it’s going to be a very long case because reversing their verdict and given the trophy to Morocco will be difficult. The team that CAF is even trying to give the trophy to will not appreciate it like they would have even if given to them now.

[Agbamoni]

Is any one following up with the news of Senegal parading the AFCON CUP, especially in their latest friendly against Peru? What do you think about it? I learned CAF is going to fine them. I would love to hear your general thoughts on this. Thank you.

You missed several discussions, or maybe you did not take the time to read other conversations because there are lots of responses regarding Senegal parading their AFCON trophy. The last post before you posted was specifically talking about the same thing.

[RockBell]

When you get something on merit is different from getting it through tricks, I will say there reason of showing up with the trophy is to let the world know they where crowned the champions of Africa in 2025  on merit and  not by tricks the same way CAF is trying to give it to Morocco after there controversial decisions. To me I was very happy seeing them come in with that trophy to let all know they fought relentlessly for the trophy before getting it and will still win even if the game is replayed now.

That is what the football body should have considered they need to understand that when things like this happens there better ways to solve problems like this but not trying to deliberately take away the trophy that was won on the pitch things are not done that way and this was the mistake they made and when I saw the judgements that was passed I was just disappointed actually because I expected something different at this point because this is my first time of experiencing something like this, and to me this is just pure ripping because there better ways to have solved this.

There performance on the game was super excellent as they where possessive starting from the first half of the game to the till the end and even went home victorious

And we all watched the game and we all know what was playing out because it won't be that easy if we did not see what happened but let's see what the conclusion of everything will be.

[Taricoins]

Is any one following up with the news of Senegal parading the AFCON CUP, especially in their latest friendly against Peru? What do you think about it? I learned CAF is going to fine them. I would love to hear your general thoughts on this. Thank you.

I’m surprised that CAF will fine them for that after stripping them off the trophy. I heard they’ve taken the case to the court and have filed a case against it to retain the title which they claim they truly won, so maybe I thought it was enough for them to actually parade the title. All I can say about this is that, it’s going to be a very long case because reversing their verdict and given the trophy to Morocco will be difficult. The team that CAF is even trying to give the trophy to will not appreciate it like they would have even if given to them now.

This whole thing is just so stupid and crazy because it was the same CAF president that actually awarded them the trophy 🏆 and now they are doing all this rubbish after like 3 months and they have already given them the trophy why not just let everything slide and let it be instead of all this chaos and shenanigans.

[Mr Reporter]

Is any one following up with the news of Senegal parading the AFCON CUP, especially in their latest friendly against Peru? What do you think about it? I learned CAF is going to fine them. I would love to hear your general thoughts on this. Thank you.

I’m surprised that CAF will fine them for that after stripping them off the trophy. I heard they’ve taken the case to the court and have filed a case against it to retain the title which they claim they truly won, so maybe I thought it was enough for them to actually parade the title. All I can say about this is that, it’s going to be a very long case because reversing their verdict and given the trophy to Morocco will be difficult. The team that CAF is even trying to give the trophy to will not appreciate it like they would have even if given to them now.

This whole thing is just so stupid and crazy because it was the same CAF president that actually awarded them the trophy 🏆 and now they are doing all this rubbish after like 3 months and they have already given them the trophy why not just let everything slide and let it be instead of all this chaos and shenanigans.

Honestly speaking it just so confusing to me self because I was trying understand AFCON organizers and so many thing that did happen all the way through just some time thing really when side way and now there are mixup thing and looking to confuse it fans which is not supposed to be so…you are very correct what they are doing very rubbish to honest i did’nt no such might happened…

[Marykeller]

Congratulations to Morocco for winning the AFCON, it was well deserved, I’m a huge fan of people getting justice for misconduct, Senegal doesn’t deserve to be called African Champions because they are a disgrace to African football, they let African down and made a mess of themselves and African football for walking off the pitch and refusing to play, I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life, it was good that justice was served, and other teams countries who would also have to do the same thing in future will have to learn about this verdict of the consequences of Senegalese actions, they brought this on themselves they have made a mess of themselves now they’re not African Champions anymore, because of a horrible decision of walking off the pitch for no reason because you feel the referee gave a penalty, and it was a clear and obvious penalty.

I’m very happy about this verdict, it was totally against the rules, to refuse playing and abandon the game for 10 minutes and refused playing, it was a very hilarious decision and it was unacceptable, I’m happy CAF have done the right thing, stripe them off the tittle so they will learn, and other teams should also learn from it.

Once again Congratulations to Morocco for winning the 2025 AFCON.

Who is this?
Is like you are watching football from your anus because if you are truly an African, you will support every actions the Senegalese team took that night, and talking of being deserving of the trophy, what makes you think that they deserves it when they can't defeat the Senegalese team on the field of play and the referee and caf were doing everything in their power just to give it to the moroccans.

Shame on you, caf and all those celebrating thus despicable decision taken by caf, because this is not the African football or African cup of nations I loved watching growing up.

I'm not even African and I feel bad for those who think like this Jostern. If you don't understand how this decision ruined, even more, African's football image, it's sad. They tried everything they could in order to make Morocco win, and the end they managed to do in the worst possible way. And the Moroccan people celebrating in the streets, three months later? So sad, please have some dignity, I would be ashamed of winning a tournament in this way, let alone celebrating in public three months later.
I was happy for what Morocco did during the last World Cup because it was huge for African football; now probably the rest of the continent hates them...

What I want the CAF to know about their action of stripping Senegal of the AFCON 2026 title is, the whole world is watching them closely on how the case will be judged as Senegal has taken CAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS). There and then, CAF, Morocco, and Senegal will be judged accordingly with pure facts, based on what happened on the finals day. Till that time comes, Senegal is parading the AFCON trophy, and they are refusing to accept the ruling of CAF to strip them of the AFCON title

[IjawMan]

..because I absolutely don’t understand why you will be parading a trophy when the CAF have authorized them to return the trophy and that is  what they have refused to do it makes them look a very stupid and foolish set of players, because the Title have been taken away from them, now they’ve forgotten that they could be banned from competing in the AFCON for years

I do not see what's wrong in the Senegalese national team parading a trophy that was handed down to them by the same people that are now requesting them to return the trophy. If they never won the AFCON why handed it to them in end of the finals?

Senegal are only trying to send a very important message to CAF, the point is that CAF should understand that the Senegal team did not steal the trophy and should not be treated as such, rather,

CAF should impose another reasonable sanction on the Senegalese national team than threating to retrieve the AFCON trophy from them.

[Ale88]

What I want the CAF to know about their action of stripping Senegal of the AFCON 2026 title is, the whole world is watching them closely on how the case will be judged as Senegal has taken CAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS). There and then, CAF, Morocco, and Senegal will be judged accordingly with pure facts, based on what happened on the finals day. Till that time comes, Senegal is parading the AFCON trophy, and they are refusing to accept the ruling of CAF to strip them of the AFCON title

I don't think CAF care what the rest of the world could think about this decision. The simple fact that as soon as the news came out everybody thought it was some kind of prank and/or fake news says it all. It's something completely unbelievable, totally nonsense, and clearly this decision was taken by extremely corrupted people. This is one of the worst decisions in football's history. And the message is clear: pay us enough (I talk about CAF) and you'll be able to win the trophy. On the pitch or in court, it doesn't matter, they'll find a way.

[Mayor of ogba]

I'm not even African and I feel bad for those who think like this Jostern. If you don't understand how this decision ruined, even more, African's football image, it's sad. They tried everything they could in order to make Morocco win, and the end they managed to do in the worst possible way. And the Moroccan people celebrating in the streets, three months later? So sad, please have some dignity, I would be ashamed of winning a tournament in this way, let alone celebrating in public three months later.
I was happy for what Morocco did during the last World Cup because it was huge for African football; now probably the rest of the continent hates them...

When Morocco qualified to the semi final in the last world cup, all African countries were happy for Morocco and they were rooting for Morocco to make it to the final, but CAF's decision to strip off Senegal the trophy they legitimately won and give it to Morocco have brought division in African football, and I believe no African country will support Morocco in the upcoming world cup.

[Kelward]

What I want the CAF to know about their action of stripping Senegal of the AFCON 2026 title is, the whole world is watching them closely on how the case will be judged as Senegal has taken CAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS). There and then, CAF, Morocco, and Senegal will be judged accordingly with pure facts, based on what happened on the finals day. Till that time comes, Senegal is parading the AFCON trophy, and they are refusing to accept the ruling of CAF to strip them of the AFCON title

I don't think CAF care what the rest of the world could think about this decision. The simple fact that as soon as the news came out everybody thought it was some kind of prank and/or fake news says it all. It's something completely unbelievable, totally nonsense, and clearly this decision was taken by extremely corrupted people. This is one of the worst decisions in football's history. And the message is clear: pay us enough (I talk about CAF) and you'll be able to win the trophy. On the pitch or in court, it doesn't matter, they'll find a way.

Senegal did the right thing by taking CAF and Morocco to court because they cannot be intimidated because CAF is overall in Africa, I hope that they win the case and humble CAF that thinks that they can getaway with injustice. If Senegal wins this case it'll be a big dent on the image of CAF, they will lose their reputation because everybody will not take their rulings seriously anymore. African football needs to be sanitized and football followers outside the continent will not ridicule us that our leadership is a joke. Let us watch and see what happens but I know that even if CAF wins they will know that they cannot just handout unfair judgements any other time.