Al Hilal requests that RS Berkane be banned from competing in the CAF Champions League semi-finals

Al Hilal of Sudan announced that it had submitted an urgent request to the Appeals Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to postpone the match between RS Berkane and Royal Army of Morocco in the semi-finals of the African Champions League scheduled in Rabat next Saturday.

The Sudanese club said on its Facebook page that it “reinforced its request with four articles from the Disciplinary Committee’s regulations that justify its urgent request, given the great damage that will befall the club if the match is held on time, even if the complaint he filed later is decided in his favor.”

Al-Hilal filed a complaint last month regarding the disqualification and eligibility of Hamza Al-Moussawi, the Nahdet Berkane player, to participate after the results of his sample were confirmed for a doping test.

Al-Moussawi was suspended for 30 days from participating in the matches because he underwent a doping test that proved he had taken a stimulant on the list of banned substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), but the suspension was lifted before facing Al-Hilal, allowing him to participate in the first-leg and return matches in the quarter-finals.

The confrontation ended with RS Berkane winning 2-1 on aggregate, facing its local rival, the Royal Army, in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Al-Hilal’s complaint stated that Al-Moussawi’s participation in the quarter-finals was illegal, given that the player “participated in the match on March 14, 2026 (first leg of the quarter-finals) and had a direct impact on the result, as he received a penalty kick in stoppage time after being fouled and his team scored the goal through it, which directly affected the result of the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw” before the player participated in the return match on March 22.

This comes at a time when Moroccan and Sudanese media reports indicated that CAF suspended Moussaoui for two years for violating anti-doping regulations.