Claiming that 'Article 16 paragraph 20 states that ‘If the referee is forced to stop the match before the end of the regular time because of invasion of the field or aggression against the visiting team, the host team shall be considered loser and shall be eliminated from the competition, without prejudice to the sanctions existing in the regulations.’
Following growing calls from African and western media for The Confederation of African Football to take against Senegal for her fans misbehavior in their return leg against Ivory Coast, CAF has decided to disqualified Senegal from the 2013 Orange Africa Cup of Nations.
It would be recalled that the Senegalese fans throw missiles, stones, bottles, firecrackers were thrown onto the pitch and tear gas was used prompting the referee to stop the match after 74 minutes of match had been played. Click to read more