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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.
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]
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 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]
Since 2004, separate scandals have erupted in prominent sports leagues in Portugal, [dead link ] [29] Germany (Bundesliga scandal), Brazil (Brazilian football match-fixing scandal) and the United States (see Tim Donaghy scandal), all of which concerned referees who fixed matches for gamblers. Many sports writers have speculated that in ...
It was previously revealed he knew about the tattoo scandal before it came to light and had been suspended for two games in the 2011 season. He was also fined $250,000 for keeping it under wraps.
Following the inquiry, media speculated about the possibility that Atalanta and Siena might lose their right to play in Serie A in 2011–12. Atalanta's situation was considered particularly delicate due to the direct involvement of Cristiano Doni in the match fixing process, whereas Siena was accused of having paid Sassuolo players in order to obtain a win by more than three goals (game ended ...