The Confederation of African Football’s (Caf) have retained Esperance as Champions League winners on Wednesday after its disciplinary board presided over the long-standing debacle.
The Tunisian outfit won the final in May after Wydad Casablanca abandoned the game in the 55th minute owing to Walid El Karti’s disallowed goal and subsequent VAR controversy.
Wydad called for video replays but the technology was unavailable, and they refused to restart play for nearly 120 minutes, forcing Gambian official Bakary Gassama to end the game.
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Days later, Caf overturned the decision to award Esperance the title, demanded a return of the medals and announced a rematch of the second-leg at an unnamed date and venue.