Overview
- Army Royal must play its next two African club home fixtures behind closed doors and pay $100,000 in fines after crowd trouble against Al Ahly.
- The penalties are itemized as $50,000 for a thrown metal object, $20,000 for laser use, $15,000 for bottle throwing, and $15,000 for ball collectors entering the pitch.
- The closed-door matches are scheduled for January 30 versus JS Kabylie and February 3 against Young Africans, per the club’s statement.
- Morocco has reinforced tournament security with an African Police Cooperation Centre in Salé linked to INTERPOL, 6,000 mobile cameras at 75 priority sites, stadium command rooms, canine and cavalry units, and 16 drone-supported intervention teams.
- On the field, Mohamed Salah scored a stoppage-time winner over Zimbabwe and made CAF’s Team of the Week, with early milestones also noted for Riyad Mahrez and Yassine Bounou as Morocco face Mali in Rabat and Egypt meet South Africa in Agadir in Round 2.