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The reason for fixing a match includes ensuring a certain team advances or gambling. Match fixing is seen as one of the biggest problems in organized sports and is considered as a major scandal. This article is a list of match fixing incidents and of matches that are widely suspected of having been fixed.
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
A number of clubs in countries across the world have been subject to match fixing, including Australia, [8] [9] China, [10] and Spain. [11] [12] The South African national team has also been investigated. [13] In the 18 months prior to February 2013, Europol investigated 680 matches in 30 countries. [14]
A Europol investigation into match-fixing by criminal syndicates published its initial findings in February 2013. Of 380 matches in Europe alleged to be fixed, one took place in England. The match, a UEFA Champions League tie from the "last three or four years", was not named due to "ongoing judicial proceedings". [14] [15]
The issue of match fixing in tennis is an ongoing problem. First reported on by The Sunday Telegraph in 2003, [1] an organisation called the Tennis Integrity Unit was set up in 2008 following an investigation into the problem. [2] In 2011, Daniel Köllerer became the first player to receive a lifetime ban from the sport due to match fixing. [3]
Operation VETO, the investigation by Europol and the police into match fixing in professional football, was announced on 4 February 2013. [1] [2] [3] The investigation was carried out by Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, and centred on the influence of organised crime syndicates based in Asia on the results of 380 football matches played in 15 countries around the world ...
1999 Chinese football match-fixing scandal; 2001 Chinese football match-fixing scandal; 2003–2009 Chinese football match-fixing scandals; 2011 South Korean football match-fixing scandal; 2011–12 Italian football match-fixing scandal; 2013 English football match-fixing scandal; 2015 Greek football match-fixing scandal
Match-fixing in professional sumo is an allegation that has plagued professional sumo for decades. Due to the amount of money changing hands depending on rank and prize money, there had been numerous reports of yaochō ( 八百長 ) (corruption, bout-fixing) in professional sumo for years before it was finally definitively proven to exist in 2011.