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1980 Italian football scandal ("Totonero"): In May 1980, the largest match fixing scandal in the history of Italian football was uncovered by Italian Guardia di Finanza, after the spalling of two Roman shopkeepers, Alvaro Trinca and Massimo Cruciani, who declared that some Italian football players sold the football-matches for money ...
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 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]
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
List of match fixing incidents; Match fixing in association football; Match fixing in cricket. List of cricketers banned for match fixing; Organized crime; Over–under (both teams combined score betting) Point shaving (attempts to manipulate a match score based on the point spread) Sports betting; Spot-fixing (attempts to manipulate certain ...
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Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal – in 2010, three Pakistan players—team captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir—were accused of involvement in a spot-fixing scheme in which they allegedly accepted large sums of money to influence specific events within a match, as opposed to an actual match result.
Pobeda were found guilty of match-fixing in a tie against Armenian club Pyunik in 2004. As a consequence, the club was handed an eight-year ban from all European competitions, and club president Aleksandar Zabrčanec and former captain Nikolce Zdravevski were given lifetime European football bans. [9]