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The 2013 Lebanese football match-fixing scandal involved 24 players, with two (Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud El Ali) being banned from the sport for life. [33] [34] In December 2013, six people in Britain, including Blackburn forward DJ Campbell, were arrested for allegedly fixing football games.
The scandal was dramatised in 1997 in a BBC film The Fix, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Jason Isaacs as Tony Kay, Christopher Fulford as Jimmy Gauld and Steve Coogan as Sunday People journalist Michael Gabbert, whose investigative work led to the uncovering of the scandal.
Six people were arrested by the NCA in December 2013 as the result of an investigation into match fixing by the Sun on Sunday. [2] Sam Sodje, a former player for Reading and Portsmouth, allegedly claimed that he could arrange for footballers in the Football League Championship to get themselves booked in exchange for cash payments. [2]
In 2023, a major match-fixing scandal broke in Brazilian football. Several players from Brazil's top leagues were accused of deliberately earning yellow cards, or penalties, in exchange for money ...
The 2009 European football betting scandal was considered to be the biggest affair in European football since the 2005 football scandal of referee Robert Hoyzer and the Bundesliga scandal in the 1970/71 season when numerous players, coaches and officials were involved in game shifts.
The 2013 Lebanese football match-fixing scandal was part of a worldwide FIFA investigation with the intent of cracking down on match fixing.Many players were found guilty of being bribed by betting companies to purposefully lose games, with matches not only limited to domestic leagues in Asia, but also international competitions. 24 players were fined in various degrees, with Ramez Dayoub and ...
2003–2009 Chinese football match-fixing scandals; Apito Dourado (2004) – a match fixing scandal in Portuguese football involving FC Porto, Boavista, and União de Leiria. Bundesliga scandal (2005) – a match fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer. Caso Genoa (2005) Brazilian football match-fixing ...
The issue of match fixing in association football has been described, in 2013, by Chris Eaton, the former Head of Security of FIFA (the sport's world governing body), as a "crisis", [1] while UEFA's president Michel Platini has said that if it continues, "football is dead". [2]