{"id":52462,"date":"2025-01-01T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/caf-imposes-30-000-fine-on-benin-fa-over-rwanda-match-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:22:10","slug":"caf-imposes-30-000-fine-on-benin-fa-over-rwanda-match-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/caf-imposes-30-000-fine-on-benin-fa-over-rwanda-match-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF imposes $30,000 fine on Benin FA over Rwanda match misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incidents occurred during a Group D Africa Cup of Nations 2025 qualifier played on October 15, 2024, at Amahoro Stadium, where Rwanda&#8217;s Amavubi defeated Benin&#8217;s Les Guepards 2-1. This victory placed Rwanda third in the group, level on points with Benin.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Benin players attempted to confront the referees and some members of Rwanda&#8217;s coaching staff. Fortunately, security personnel intervened to prevent further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Following a disciplinary committee meeting at CAF, it was concluded that Benin violated Article 45 of the governing regulations. As a result, the Benin FA was fined $5,000 for general misconduct and an additional $25,000 for aggression against the referees, totaling to $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fine, Benin secured qualification for the tournament to be held in Morocco alongside Nigeria, finishing second in the group with eight points, ahead of Rwanda on goal difference.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79659 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/field_14263_24101520465393281-6ff4e.jpg\" alt=\"After the match, Benin players attempted to confront the referees and some members of Rwanda&#039;s coaching staff. Fortunately, security personnel intervened to prevent further escalation.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79660 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/field_14225_24101518464689321-fefa9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/field_14263_24101520465323918-4786f.jpg\" alt=\"Following a disciplinary committee meeting at CAF, it was concluded that Benin violated Article 45 of the governing regulations by doing this.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79658 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/field_14263_24101520465329813-47495.jpg\" alt=\"The incidents occurred during a Group D Africa Cup of Nations 2025 qualifier played on October 15, 2024, at Amahoro Stadium.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has ordered the Benin Football Association to pay a $30,000 fine due to the misconduct displayed by its players during a match held in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000079657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000079657,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-190.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000079657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52462"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52462"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}