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Match-fixing


Jailed Fenerbahce chairman re-elected

21 May 2012

Fenerbache chairman Aziz Yildirim was re-elected to the top post on Sunday, even though he is currently jailed in connection with a match-fixing scandal. Yildirim, one of the most prominent names in the group of more than 90...[more]




New in Knowledge Bank: Threats to sporting integrity: doping, match-fixing and corruption

23 April 2012

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]




Report recommends European cooperation against match-fixing

18 April 2012

A new study for the European Commission maps for the first time the criminal law provisions against match-fixing in the European Union’s 27 countries. There is a need for closer cooperation and harmonisation, the report concludes.[more]




Eaton reveals changes in FIFA's programme against match-fixing

29 March 2012

In a panel on Betting in Football at the Soccerex conference in Manchester, UK, FIFA's head of security, Chris Eaton, revealed that FIFA has put its whistle-blowing and amnesty programme on hold. Steve Menary reports from the...[more]




Council of Europe pushes for action against corruption in FIFA and match-fixing

09 March 2012

In a meeting on Wednesday, a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe took further steps in fighting unethical behaviour in sport when it unanimously adopted two resolutions proposing actions for ensuring...[more]




FIFPro publishes Black Book on Eastern Europe

13 February 2012

The World Players Union (FIFPro) has published a new report on the working conditions for Eastern European football players, who must struggle every day with lacking salary payments, violence, racism and match-fixing.[more]




Resignations deepen rift among Turkish Islamists and country’s soccer crisis

02 February 2012

The Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) three top managers have resigned in a move that appears to have deepened the rift between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey’s powerful Islamic Gulen movement as well as the...[more]




SportAccord launches global programme to stop match-fixing in sport

18 January 2012

SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for 105 Olympic and non-Olympic sports federations, has created a programme to battle match-fixing in sport. The international sports movement has identified the fight against the...[more]




Sport in politics and politics in sport - 2011 and 2012

13 January 2012

It is time to rank the most important sports political cases of 2011 and to offer a list of prophecies – what will be the most important cases in 2012?[more]




Dreadful Research and the [Private] European Gambling Industry

20 December 2011

Doping is a bigger threat to sport than match-fixing claims a recent report from Coventry University that Play the Game reported on last month. In this comment piece, match-fixing expert Declan Hill questions the conclusions as...[more]




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