CAFCL: CAF Fines Young Africans, Warn Tanzania FA Over Rivers United Incident

Sampson Adedeji

Confederation of African Football( CAF) has clamped down on the Tanzania premier league side Young Africans over the unruly behaviors of their fans in the champions league preliminary match against Nigeria's Rivers United, BSNsports.com.ng can report.

CAF received a complaint from Rivers United Club indicating that some of their officials were physically assaulted by the stewards at the stadium. The match was supposed to be played behind closed doors nevertheless, some spectators’ attendance was noted.

CAF sent the complaint to Young Africans Club through Tanzania Football Federation. However, CAF did not receive any feedback from the Tanzanian party.

The football disciplinary body met on Monday and decided on various complained and Young African was slapped with a fine.

" impose a financial sanction of 5,000 USD (Five Thousand US Dollars) against Young African (Tanzania) for the incidents which occurred during the match in question," the statement said.

CAF also noticed the recurrence of incidents during the home matches in Tanzania, whether in the frame of National Team competitions or CAF Interclub Competitions.

The incidents vary from issues with the PCR testing, crowd being above the limit authorized during specific matches, issues within the dressing rooms and several complaints from various visiting teams.

" impose a warning as result of the misconduct of Tanzania’s numerous clubs/teams participating under CAF Competitions in disregard of the provisions of art. 82 of the CAF Disciplinary Code," CAF said.

Tanzania Football Federation is kindly requested to respect CAF regulations, guidelines, and directives.