Italian teams relegated over match-fixing

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Juventus, who were the Italian Champions after winning Serie A, have been relegated into a lower division as a punishment over match-fixing. They have also been stripped of their Serie A titles for each of the last two seasons and will start the season with a 30 point deficit. Lazio and Fiorentina have also been relegated whereas AC Milan have got away with just a 15 point deficit but will stay in Serie A.



Italian teams relegated over match-fixing



Juventus, Lazio, and Fiorentina have been relegated from Serie A as a result of the match-fixing scandal.

AC Milan have avoided relegation, but will start next season with a 15 point deficit, and have had 44 points taken from their tally for the 2005-06 season.

Juventus have been stripped of their Serie A titles for each of the last two seasons. They will start next campaign with a 30 points deficit.

Fiorentina will start in Serie B with a 12 point deficit and Lazio a seven point deficit. The rulings mean that none of the four clubs will be allowed to play in Europe next season.

In addition to the punishments handed to the clubs, a number of the individual directors were suspended.

Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi has been suspended from all football for five years. Adriano Galliani, who was AC Milan vice-president, has been suspended for one year.

The four clubs will have up to three days to appeal to the Federal Court but a final verdict has to be announced before July 25, when the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) must give UEFA, Europe's football governing body, the list of teams that will compete in the continental club competitions in the 2006/07 campaign.

The scandal was uncovered as a result of a criminal investigation that was launched before the start of the 2004/05 campaign by the Naples prosecutors' office.

Telephone conversations between Moggi and a referees supremo in charge of the appointments of officials during the 2004/05 season were tapped.

Prosecutors based their probe on hundreds of bugged telephone calls between referee selectors, game officials and Moggi.

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Is that all?

A light rap on the wrist and a big kiss on the butt is all they get for these crimes??? Phooey!

Those teams will still make a fortune by selling jerseys and other equipage. The better solution was for the league to suspend team operations for a good, long period of time.
 

mimiki

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yup, they do derserve worse. they are lucky to get the 30 point deduction instead of Seria B.
 

mimiki

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i just saw on tv that the Italian clubs involved in the match fixing, have now won appeals and got their punishment reduced! come on, Seriously!