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7 unusual facts about match fixing


1913–14 Birmingham F.C. season

In November 1913, Birmingham captain Womack was offered an inducement of £55 to fix the result of the match against Grimsby Town.

Babe Borton

As details in the scandal emerged, it was discovered that he and some Vernon teammates had also bribed opponents in 1919 to throw the pennant to the Tigers.

FC Shakhter Karagandy

On 19 September 2008, Shakhter and Vostok were disqualified from the Kazakhstan Premier League for playing a fixed match, club coaches and management involved were banned from football for 60 months.

FC Vostok

On 19 September 2008, FC Shakhter and FC Vostok were disqualified from the Kazakhstan Premier League for playing a fixed match, club coaches and management involved were banned from football for 60 months.

Hal Chase

He allegedly gambled on baseball games, and also engaged in suspicious play in order to throw games in which he played.

James Coppinger

In January 2013, along with several other people, including fellow footballers, Coppinger faced a race-fixing inquiry with allegations of corruption in gambling on horses to lose on Betting exchanges in nine races between 1 November 2010 and 31 March 2011.

Tanking

Match fixing, more specifically when a competitor deliberately loses without gambling being involved


Lubomír Puček

In March 2006, Regional court of Ostrava Region declared Puček was guilty of accepting bribe for fixing this match, and was fined 70,000 CZK.

Mazhar Majeed

On the same video posted by the News of the World, Majeed said that earlier in the year the second Test match between Pakistan and Australia in Sydney had also been fixed.

Ultimate Soccer Manager

Other well-known features were to bung an opposing team for preferential market treatment, rig or betting on the outcome of the players' team matches.


see also

1915 British football betting scandal

At the same hearing, United player Billy Meredith denied any knowledge of the match-fixing, but stated that he became suspicious when none of his teammates would pass the ball to him.

1993 UEFA Champions League Final

The club and their president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season.

Abraham Paz

On 16 July 2013, aged 34, he moved abroad for the very first time, signing a two-year contract with Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin FC – he had just been banned from playing in his country while investigations were carried out to determine whether or not he was involved in match-fixing when he represented Hércules.

Ata-ur-Rehman

At Justice Malik Qayyum's Commission into match-fixing, Ata-ur-Rehman initially denied that he had made the allegations against Wasim Akram.

Bundesliga scandal

The Bundesliga scandal (1971) resulted in the demotion of Arminia Bielefeld and the fining and suspension of over 50 players, as well as coaches and officials, for match fixing.

Giuseppe Morabito

He is accused of match-fixing when he played for F.C. Crotone against his other former club F.C. Messina at the last match-day of the 2001-02 Serie B season.

Itai Keisuke

On 3 October 2008 in the Tokyo District Court, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by the Sumo Association against the Shukan Gendai magazine over further match-fixing allegations.

Kapil Dev as Indian national cricket coach

The reports of CBI (India's premier investigating agency) and K. Madhavan (appointed by BCCI to investigate match-fixing allegations) in November 2000 exonerated Kapil Dev of any involvement in match-fixing.

RoPS

In spring 2011 the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation started a large investigation into match fixing.

Ryan Naysmith

He left the club for Villarreal CF after punching Gavin as part of a match fixing scandal.

Spastique

The closing track "Fashanu" is possibly the only known song dedicated to English Premier League footballer John Fashanu, and the match-fixing scandal involving him, Bruce Grobbelaar and Hans Segers.

Thomas H. McIntosh

He moved to Middlesbrough nine years later where new chairman Philip Bach was charged with rebuilding the club following the match-fixing scandal involving the previous chairman Thomas Gibson-Poole and manager Andy Walker.

Totonero

Totonero 1986, a scandal of football match fixing in Italy between 1984 and 1986

Totonero 1980, a scandal of football match fixing in Italy in 1980