Match-fixing

The online sports betting business has an annual turnover of $80 billion and it is increasingly attractive to try and influence outcome of games. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, FIFA set up a special early warning system to...[more]

Even if Italy become world champions on Sunday no amnesty will be granted for those implicated in the largest match-fixing scandal in Italian football. Italy’s Sports Minister and the emergency supreme of the Football Federation...[more]

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has charged four top Series A clubs for match-fixing. They risk relegation if they are found guilty by the FIGC tribunal which begins 28 June.[more]

Journalists have also played active roles in the Juventus match fixing scandal. Eight journalists are currently under police investigation and last week icon tv host Aldo Biscardi was forced to resign from his hugely popular...[more]

Having been the president of a national football federation blown apart by match fixing is not necessarily considered a career stopper in international sport. Last week, FIFA president Sepp Blatter gave his full support to Franco...[more]

In November last year, the German football referee Robert Hoyzer was sentenced to 29 months in jail for taking bribes to fix the outcome of a number of matches in the German football league. But now Hoyzer may avoid going to...[more]

Match fixing has been around as long as sport itself and the cost of fixing a match is not significantly greater today than it was 90 years ago. What is different is that has become much easier to profit by betting on a loser.[more]

Have you ever left a football match feeling that the result was so unfair or bemusing that it must have been fixed?[more]

Sports federations need to consider ethical guidelines and other precautionary measures against an escalating culture of match fixing. Otherwise match fixing will replace doping as the biggest threat to the credibility of sport...[more]