Match Fixing

China's football image – mend it like Beckham

22 Feb 2013

Former England captain David Beckham is being lined up to promote Chinese football, state media said on Friday, but fans say rebuilding the sport’s shattered image may be too big a challenge even...

Shanghai Shenhua stripped of 2003 title over match-fixing

19 Feb 2013

Shanghai Shenhua, briefly home to former Chelsea forward Didier Drogba, has been stripped of its 2003 league title and fined US$160,000 as part of a new round of sanctions aimed at rooting out...

CFA bans 33 for life, fines clubs millions over corruption

18 Feb 2013

China’s top football body handed down a swathe of punishments including fines worth millions, it said on Monday, as it seeks leave behind corruption scandals which have plagued the sport in China...

Soccer scandal shows darker side of regimented Singapore

8 Feb 2013

Singapore has long cultivated a reputation as a clean, safe and regimented place to live and do business in a turbulent region, but the apparently major role of Singaporeans in a global soccer...

Singapore in the dock over Europol inquiry into fixing of football matches

6 Feb 2013

In just the latest indication that Singapore is at the heart of a global match-fixing empire, European police said they had smashed a network rigging hundreds of games, including in the Uefa...

Opinion

Alex Lo

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Peter Kammerer

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Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

India TV claims prompt ICC match-fixing probe of umpire launch

The International Cricket Council has launched an "urgent investigation" following allegations by an Indian television station that several umpires were willing to fix matches for money.

S Korea lifts domestic bans on players

South Korea’s Olympic body has lifted six-month domestic suspensions on four players found guilty of deliberately underperforming during the London Olympics, officials said on Friday.

Let professionals run Chinese soccer

There is no bigger spectator sport in China than soccer, but nor is there a national game more scorned. Blighted by ineptitude and corruption, it is the reference point by which failure is...

Soccer scandal claims more top scalps

A court in Tieling, Liaoning province, yesterday sentenced a top soccer official and a referee instructor to long jail terms for taking bribes and match-fixing.

Mainland soccer referees jailed for match-fixing

Four mainland soccer referees were yesterday jailed for between 3 1/2 and seven years for their roles in fixing matches, in the first important verdict following a crackdown on soccer-related...

Football's fixers in the dock

The man who used to head the mainland's soccer referees went on trial for corruption along with a soccer club boss yesterday, kicking off a series of trials that is expected to feature more than...