African Champions League: CAF's decision to replay return match is annulled by the CAS

"The CAS Panel in charge of this matter has considered that the CAF Executive Committee did not have jurisdiction to order that the second leg of the final (African Champions League between Espérance sportive de Tunis, TUN, and Wydad Athletic Club, MAR) be replayed and has decided to annul the decision challenged is replayed and decides to cancel this decision," stated the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 31/07/2019.

"The second-leg of the African Champions League final will be replayed on neutral ground outside of Tunisia and after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (held in Egypt from 21/06 to 19/07/2019)," said the Confederation of African Football on 05/06/2019, the same day as the FIFA Congress held in Paris (FRA).

Espérance sportive de Tunis thought they had won the CAF Champions League after their 1-0 victory in the second-leg of the final (match called off in the 60^th minute), in Radès (TUN), on 31/05/2019 (1-1 in the first-leg, in Rabat, MAR, on 24/05/2019).

There was a lot of confusion during the match due to a failure of the video assistant referee system (VAR), with the…