We finally know the name of the winner of the African Champions League! After a fantastic scenario match and judicial vicissitudes, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) declared the winner Esperance of Tunis Wednesday, August 7th. The final ended against Wydad Casablanca will not be replayed as originally announced.
CAF declared "the loser of the final return by default" the Moroccan club of Wydad Casablanca, implicitly giving the title of the African Champions League to Esperance of Tunis
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On May 31, in the final match of the final, the players of Wydad Casablanca had returned to the locker room to protest against a breakdown of assistance to the video arbitration (VAR), convinced that it could have validated a goal refused by the referee.
After 1:30 of interruption, marked by some clashes and long discussions between leaders, Tunisians were declared winners. But their joy was short-lived as five days later, the African Confederation decided to play the match again, on neutral ground. The decision was unanimous against her and the two clubs appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the highest sports court, with separate appeals and a common motivation: to annul the decision and be declared the winner.
The Lausanne-based judiciary finally overturned the initial decision of the CAF Executive Committee that the CAF Executive Committee, convened urgently at the beginning of June in Paris, was not "competent" to decide to have the match. She left him the choice: to decide on a loser on green carpet or to seize his competent authority to replay the match. The African body has decided.