THE dream of Crown FC of Ogbomoso to advance in this year’s Federation Cup has been dashed as their appeal was thrown out by the appeal committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Crown FC, Oyo State representatives had filed an appeal after their semi-final clash with IfeanyiUbah in Kaduna had ended 2-1 in the 88th minute owing to crowd trouble, while the disciplinary committee later awarded the match to the Anambra State-side.
NFF in a statement therefore upheld the ruling of the disciplinary committee which awarded the stalemated match to the Nigeria Professional Football League side.
The disciplinary committee, had equally ruled that the match officials-Match Commissioner, Bege Kwasau; Centre Referee, Audu Ibrahim; Assistant Referee one, Kabiru Adamu and Assistant Referee two, Abubakar Yusuf acted unprofessionally during the match.
The NFF’s appeal committee, however, adpoted the findings of the disciplinary committee which also ordered that the match officials be sanctioned appropriately.
It also held that there can be no appeal against the verdict making reference to Article 70 of the NFF Statute (2010).
Meanwhile, IfeanyiUbah will now face Nasarawa United on Sunday in the final of the Federation Cup billed for the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
