Tuesday 11/March/2025 – 01:53 PM
The club released Al -Ahly A statement today, Tuesday, threatening to withdraw from the Premier League championship, if a foreign arbitration team was not recruited to the summit match against Zamalek.
Al -Ahly statement on the crisis of the summit match
Al -Ahly Club said in its statement through its official accounts: Al -Ahly’s board of directors discussed in its emergency meeting that took place at eleven in the morning, the clear “confusion” that the football system is witnessing in an unprecedented way, as well as the lack of coordination between the Egyptian Football Association and the Professional Club League, which pushes clubs to continuous crises and problems.
The club added in its statement: The council also discussed the crisis of today’s match, and attributed it to an Egyptian arbitration team, despite the address of the association to the Football Association and the request of foreign referees for the match, after the unjustified arbitration errors that exceeded all the limits, and affected the results of the matches. It sometimes extended to trying to determine the path of the championship. In addition to the club during the last period, he sent many official correspondence to the Football Association; They asked to develop the arbitration system and take care of it, and to assign the referees committee to a foreign expert that carries a CV that qualifies it to restore matters to its normal quorum.
He continued: At the same time, the atmosphere and assistants who help him succeed are provided. Unfortunately, we did not find any response or responses to our correspondence. Even if one of the elements of competence is sometimes appointed, we found those who seek to “exclude him”, and the arbitration system still represents the biggest question mark in Egyptian football.
He concluded: And in view of all these repeated crises, and insisting on not assigning today’s match to a foreign arbitration team and providing refereeing justice .. In order to preserve the club’s rights, the Board of Directors decided the following: adhere to the postponement of the match until the commitment of the decision of the Professional Clubs Association that organizes the league competition, and the club’s desire to hold today’s match with foreign arbitration teams; To provide justice among competing clubs .. In the event of non -response, Al -Ahly club announces the failure to complete the league championship, the board of directors in the event of a continuous convening to discuss all developments in this regard.
