«Emirates Today» learned that the Football Association has discharged its responsibility for the decision to cancel the Arab Gulf League and its results, and not to crown Al-Ahly youth as a champion of the competition, along with the decision to cancel the relegation to the first division, and therefore not the rise of both the Emirates and Dibba Al-Hisn to the professionals, after it was The two teams are at the top of the amateur league.

This came during a meeting of the Discipline Committee yesterday, which was held via the video-telephony system, to discuss the complaint submitted by Al-Ahly Youth Club against both the Professional League and the Football Association.

A source assured to «Emirates Today» that the representative of the Football Association during the meeting stressed that the Professional League is a separate entity and responsible for the decisions that it takes, regarding canceling the results of the Arab Gulf League, after calling the Association’s Board of Directors to the General Assembly and voting to refuse to increase the number of professional clubs to 16, And maintaining the current number of 14 clubs, and thus canceling the relegation and rise, what also resulted in the cancellation of the league without crowning the leader, knowing that Al-Ahly youth were leading the arrangement until round 19. He said that all these decisions fall under the responsibility of the association, explaining that the Football Association does not have Relationship to Al-Ahly youth’s complaint in “Season’s Issue”.

The source pointed out that the defenses presented by the representative of the Professional Association during the meeting witnessed repeated objections to the legality of the delegation of the representative of Al-Ahly Youth in the case, which was approved by the Discipline Committee, and asked Al-Ahly youth to prove it in the next session, while the defenses of the Association of Professionals were confined to a youth complaint Al-Ahly, of course, confirms the authenticity of the association’s decisions, and denies all complaints and accusations made by Al-Ahly youth, but without providing detailed legal answers to the club’s complaints.

The Discipline Committee decided during its meeting chaired by Counselor Saeed Al-Houti, to postpone the decision on the Al-Ahly youth’s complaint until next Wednesday, in order to give Al-Ahly youth a legal deadline to review the memoranda of the Professional League and the Football Association and prepare its legal response to them, so that the committee can consider this during its next meeting, taking note The disciplinary committee had granted during its previous session a deadline for both the Football Association and the League to respond to Al-Ahly's youth complaint against them.

The discipline committee, during its meeting that the Vice-Chairman of the Committee, Counselor Hamdan Al-Zayoudi, missed, in view of his request from the committee to refrain from looking into this issue, in detail, to the memo it received from the league and the legal payments that it relied on in its decisions not to complete the competitions of the current sports season, as well as The Football Association also made its legal payments. The Al-Ahly youth’s complaint included several demands to cancel all decisions issued by the association’s board of directors.

It is noteworthy that the Sports Arbitration Board in the Football Association, which also considers this complaint in another legal path, had decided during its last session, and after reviewing the case file, to postpone its decision to its next session scheduled for next Monday. A legal source revealed that Al-Ahly youth have the right to request an adequate deadline to prepare its legal response to all that was stated in the memoranda of the Professional League and the Football Association.

- The Football Association confirmed that it has nothing to do with the youth complaint of Al-Ahly in the "issue of the season"

- The Disciplinary Committee postponed consideration of the complaint until next Wednesday.

The Al-Rabita did not provide detailed legal answers to the club's complaints, and it repeatedly protested Al-Ahly's youth representative.

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