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The reason for fixing a match includes ensuring a certain team advances or gambling. Match fixing is seen as one of the biggest problems in organized sports and is considered as a major scandal. This article is a list of match fixing incidents and of matches that are widely suspected of having been fixed.
The 1915 British football betting scandal occurred when a Football League First Division match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford on 2 April (Good Friday) 1915 was fixed in United's favour, with players from both sides benefiting from bets placed upon the result. In all, seven players were found to have participated in the ...
The British betting scandal of 1964 was a scandal in English association football in which ten professional players were jailed for offences arising from match fixing. History [ edit ]
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, snooker was hit by one of its biggest-ever match-fixing scandals when 10 Chinese players were banned for manipulating match outcomes. The players were found guilty of accepting bribes ...
A Europol investigation into match-fixing by criminal syndicates published its initial findings in February 2013. Of 380 matches in Europe alleged to be fixed, one took place in England. The match, a UEFA Champions League tie from the "last three or four years", was not named due to "ongoing judicial proceedings". [14] [15]
Chann Sankaran mugshot for 2013 English match fixing scandal Following newspaper reports, an investigation was launched by the National Crime Agency. Subsequently the two businessmen, Krishna Ganeshan , and Chann Sankaran, were jailed along with footballer Michael Boateng who were all convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery for a failed plot ...
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 ...