May 17 – Australian professional football has been plunged into disrepute by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South American gambling connection.
April 17 – UEFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have partnered with sports betting entities to fight match-fixing and safeguard sport integrity ahead of EURO 2024 and the Olympic Games in Paris.
April 11 – Speaking via video link to the first FIFA Integrity Summit being hosted by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), FIFA president Gianni Infantino warned that match manipulation “has not gone away”.
April 2 – Li Tie, the former head coach of China’s national men’s team, has pleaded guilty to accepting more than $10 million in bribes.
April 2 – Botafogo owner John Textor has repeated his claim that match-fixing riddled the Brazilian top flight in 2023 and that decided the destination of the championship that was won by Palmeiras. Both Sao Paulo and Fortaleza have threatened legal action against the American.
March 19 – Starlizard Integrity Services, the betting-related match-fixing monitoring specialists, are reporting a 16% increase in suspicious matches in 2023 against 2022.
March 13 – The Brazilian senate is to establish a parliamentary commission to investigate match-fixing in the Brazilian game.
March 12 – Palmeiras will take legal action against John Textor after the Botafogo owner cited the club in accusations of match manipulation in the Brazilian game.
March 8 – Without offering any proof, Botafogo owner John Textor has said referees in the Brazilian top flight have been corrupted.
March 3 – Sportradar Integrity Services in its third annual integrity report has highlighted a total of 1,329 suspicious matches in 2023, 880 of which were in football.
December 20 – Members of Afghanistan’s men’s national team have urged FIFA to investigate allegations of match-fixing against the president of the country’s FA.
August 17 – Sports betting integrity specialist Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS) has identified 79 ‘suspicious’ football matches played globally between 1 January and 30 June 2023, indicating the likelihood of betting related match-fixing.
July 26 – Osasuna have overturned their European ban, issued as a result of decade-old match-fixing scandal.
July 5 – Osasuna have been thrown out of European football’s third-tier Conference League next season due to a match-fixing scandal from a decade ago.
June 7 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has fined two clubs – Botev Vratsa and Maritsa Plovdiv – following match-fixing reports from UEFA.