UEFA betting scandal deepens

UEFA have been placed under the spotlight this week after reports emerged that the betting scandal that has tarnished European competition's the Europa League and Champions League has deepened, with another set of European fixtures being involved. Six Champions League qualifications matches and six games from the Europa league are under scrutiny with another investigation set to take place.

UEFA have announced that an investigation will take place after news broke last Friday that there were 200 games split over nine different countries that were being investigated by German prosecutors.

UEFA have now announced that seven other games involving KF Tirana (Albania), FC Dinaburg (Latvia), KS Vllaznia (Albania), NK IB Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Budapest Honved FC (Hungary) are now being investigated.

UEFA General Secretary Gianno Infantino said:

"From the original list of around 40 fixtures in Europe that were considered suspicious in terms of results, we are investigating seven European club competition fixtures.

"UEFA wishes to stress that it has been co-operating fully with the German police and authorities on the case."

"Following a request from the German police for information on a number of matches, UEFA was able to assist.

"That was thanks to its Betting Fraud Detection System that has been monitoring all UEFA competitions and European national league first and second-division matches for irregular betting patterns since July 2009.

"UEFA will file criminal complaints, together with the relevant national associations, as soon as possible, against clubs, officials and/or players in those countries concerned.

"We have full trust in our national associations to deal with the cases related to their national competitions and will continue to provide them with our full co-operation and assistance."

The scandal involves teams from Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.