The Egyptian Football Association Appeal Committee has postponed its decision to declare the Zamalek and Al -Ahly match in the first round of the champion’s determination of the Egyptian League competition until May 15, due to the failure of the reasons for the decision from the Professional Clubs Association, according to a statement issued by the committee on Thursday.
The committee requested the presence of Taha Aref, head of the Competitions Committee of the Club Association, for its appearance before making the final decision in the incident.
The committee, which includes a group of advisers headed by Mohamed Abdou Saleh, held a meeting Thursday in which it discussed the crisis of Al -Ahly withdrawal from its match against Zamalek, which was scheduled for last March 11, in protest against the failure to appoint foreign referees to manage the match, despite the club’s request and the Professional Clubs Association pledged to bring in a foreign referees team, which the Football Association refused to apply under the pretext of time.
The Competitions Committee issued its decision to consider Al-Ahly as a loser for the match with a score of 3-0 in addition to deducting 3 additional points from its score at the end of the league, before the Board of Directors of the Clubs Association canceled the decision to deduct the points, satisfying Al-Ahly as a loser for the match and carried by the expenses that cause it to withdraw from it.
The association’s decision stated that Al -Ahly did not aim to raise a crisis or withdraw from the match, but rather tried to search for more justice to all parties, while the association’s requests and Al -Ahly club were not met to bring foreign referees due to the establishment of the first round of the champion’s determination of the league after only 5 days from the end of the first stage.
The Zamalek and Pyramids club filed a complaint with the Appeals Committee to request a decision to re -deduct the additional points from Al -Ahly, and Al -Ahly also submitted another complaint to the same committee, calling for the re -establishment of the match, as it refused to take it for compulsive reasons related to not providing the association for its pledge to bring foreign referees to manage it.
Pyramids is currently leading the ranking of the champion of the Egyptian League with 47 points and a difference of one point from Al -Ahly, and Zamalek comes third with 40 points. Each team remains 4 games before the end of the competition.
