However, an appeal was lodged against the Congolese side for fielding an 'ineligible player', which African football's ruling body upheld.

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Last year, Burkina Faso lost all three matches and was fortunate to make the finals after fielding an ineligible player in a qualifier against Namibia.

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Gloucestershire have asked the England and Wales Cricket Board to order that their third round NatWest Trophy tie be replayed because Worcestershire fielded an ineligible player.

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Had Galatasaray been found guilty of fielding an ineligible player, it would have been handed a 3-0 deficit going into the second leg in Gelsenkirchen on March 12.

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During the 2011-12, the Illinois High School Association, which oversees high school sports in the state, stripped the team of 18 wins because of the presence of an ineligible player.

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Goose Creek High won on the field in its South Carolina High School League football playoff game, but it subsequently lost in front of an SCHSL committee for the second time over its use of an apparently ineligible player.

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The SCHSL has twice voted to toss Goose Creek over its use of an ineligible player, the second vote coming after Goose Creek got a judge to order the league to hold another, open-door hearing and take a vote.

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Media assembled outside the closed SCHSL hearing reported judging by what they could hear through the door Reedy crying about the impact of the ruling on all his players, with an emphasis on the player deemed ineligible.

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The player was academically ineligible by the standards of the Cleveland schools.

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