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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.
A Football Association investigation resulted in five players, four of whom played for Accrington Stanley and the other for Bury, being charged with betting on a Bury win. [11] Jay Harris was banned from playing for a year, David Mannix for ten months, Robert Williams and Peter Cavanagh for eight months, and Andy Mangan for five months.
It was when he learned that players at one of his former clubs, Mansfield Town, had been paid by Tranmere Rovers players to lose a game that Gauld first became involved in match-fixing. [1] In late 1962, Gauld approached Sheffield Wednesday player David Layne, a former team mate at Swindon, to identify a target game.
The fixer planned to target two football matches in Britain in November, and tell the players how many total goals needed to be scored. [1] The fixer gave an example of a game where four goals needed to be scored, with two goals would be scored in each half. The result was irrelevant as long as the correct number of total goals was scored. [1]
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 ...
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 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]
Four games of SSV Ulm 1846 in the final phase of the Regionalliga season 2008–09 were under suspicion of manipulation. [15] On 27 November 2009, the club announced the denunciation of the Croatian players Davor Kraljević, Marijo Marinović and Dinko Radojević in association with the match-fixing scandal. [16]