Football Scandals
- 1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, AC Milan versus Leeds United - Referee Christos Michas was investigated by the Greece Football Association amid allegations that he had accepted a bribe from the Italian club. He was subsequently banned by UEFA from officiating a European game again.
- Bundesliga scandal (2005) - a match fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer.
- Brazilian football match-fixing scandal (2005) - another match fixing scandal involving referees, this time in Brazil.
- 2006 Italian football scandal – a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving several major teams, including three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League.
- In the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2006 the Armenian champion FC Pyunik refused to play with an Azerbaijani team, PFC Neftchi. The team FC Pyunik defeated the Ukrainian team FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 in the quarter-final, when it already knew that in case of victory they will have to play against PFC Neftchi. After the match, they told the referee they wouldn't play against an Azerbaijani team, and later that evening left Moscow on an airplane. The Russian Football Union gave FC Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3-0 so they could play in the half-final instead of FC Pyunik, but FC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "...we would really want to play in the half-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way then sport". Eventually, because no one could play against PFC Neftchi in the half-final, Neftchi were right away promoted to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas 4-2.
- In July 2011, As part of a major match-fixing investigation by authorities in Turkey, nearly 60 people suspected to be involved with fixing games were detained by İstanbul Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau and then arrested by the court.
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