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Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. [nb 1] Involving various clubs and numerous executives, both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies (Italian Referee Association (AIA) [it; es], FIGC, and LNP), as well as some referees and referee assistants, the ...
The press rumors multiplied in the spring of 2006 and the scandal came to light, first with the news that the FIGC had begun to investigate episodes of alleged corruption in the football and refereeing worlds on 2 May 2006, and then with the publication of the first wiretaps starting from 4 May 2006, which was a few days after the end of the ...
The 2006–07 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 105th season of top-tier Italian football, the 75th in a round-robin tournament.It was scheduled to begin on 26 and 27 August but was postponed to 2 September 2006 due to the Calciopoli scandal, which led to the absence of Juventus.
24 July 2006 – Former Lazio and Juventus forward Pierluigi Casiraghi is named coach of the Italian U21 national team. Gianfranco Zola will act as Casiraghi's technical consultant. 25 July 2006 – After appeals were heard in the 2006 Italian football scandal, all penalties were reduced.
The 2004– 2010 Italian football scandal, also known as Caso Plusvalenze, [1] was a scandal over alleged false accounting at Italian football clubs. The ...
The 2005–06 season was the 104th season of competitive football in Italy. Due to the Calciopoli scandal, the Serie A title was awarded to Inter Milan instead of Juventus, and were also relegated to Serie B the following season for the first time in its history. Juventus were also stripped of the previous season's Serie A title.
In May 2006, Moggi was linked as the central figure in Calciopoli, [17] [18] [19] a vast referee lobbying scandal spanning the professional top two Italian football leagues.
It started on 9 September 2006 and ended on 10 June 2007. The 22 clubs in Serie B each played 42 matches during the regular season. The 2006–07 season marked the first Serie B appearance for two clubs, Frosinone and then 27-time Italian champions Juventus , whose involvement in the league was a direct result of not winning competition in the ...