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An anatomy of Turkish football match-fixing
journal contribution
posted on 2018-06-06, 15:30 authored by Serhat YilmazSerhat Yilmaz, Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Georgios A. AntonopoulosWhile discussion on corruption in sport is intensifying and football match-fixing in particular is attracting increasing attention, new fixing scandals emerge offering new accounts of actors and corrupt practices within the football industry and the level of the external threat to the sport. The scandal exposure of fixed matches in Turkey in 2011 sheds light on the fixing of 17 matches played in the 2010/11 football season and allowed for insights to the actors, structure and processes behind the fix. Following four criminal and seven disciplinary proceedings, the case is still pending appeal for its final decision, involving a total of 93 suspects and having already resulted in the exclusion of two teams from European competitions. The evidence collected by the authorities points towards a hierarchical criminal organisation led by the President of a football club that arranged and coordinated the fixing in order for his team to win the national Championship. The aim of this article is to provide an account of the organisation and coordination of match-fixing in Turkey, with its actors, specifics and criminal characteristics, while offering an examination of match-fixing for sporting success, the least documented type of match-fixing.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Trends in Organized CrimeVolume
22Pages
375 - 393Citation
YILMAZ, S., MANOLI, A.E. and ANTONOPOULOS, G.A., 2018. An anatomy of Turkish football match-fixing. Trends in Organized Crime, 22, pp.375-393.Publisher
Springer (© The Authors)Version
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-05-12Publication date
2018-05-23Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1084-4791eISSN
1936-4830Publisher version
Language
- en