Adedokun Waliyu The Senegalese FA is planning to parade the 2025 AFCON trophy before the country’s forthcoming international friendly against Peru.
Senegal won the 2025 AFCON on the pitch against Morocco in the final on January 18, but a ruling by CAF’s Appeals Board on March 17 stripped the Teranga Lions of the title and named Morocco the champions.
The Appeals Board ruling said Senegal had breached Articles 82 and 84 of the AFCON regulations after several of its players walked off the pitch to their dressing room in protest of a referee’s decision.
Senegal had filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to overturn the earlier CAF ruling.
Amid the uncertainty, the AFCON trophy presentation was included in the schedule of events ahead of Senegal’s friendly against Peru at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday.
The schedule of activities was posted on the Teranga Lions’ official social media page.
Speaking at a press conference in Paris, Abdoulaye Fall, the Senegalese FA president, described the CAF ruling as “unprecedented administrative robbery in the history of our sport”.
He added that the country is prepared to wage a “moral and legal crusade” against the decision.
“Faced with what amounts to the most blatant and unprecedented administrative robbery in the history of our sport, the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) refuses to accept this as inevitable,” Fall said.
“Senegal will not bend the knee and will not compromise its values. Our fight now transcends the football pitch.”
