What is mach fixing?

Match Fixing is an act wherein the result or outcome of a game is decided before hand and the person who is fixed to lose will make attempts to lose the match without much of difficulty.

Match-fixing: irregularly influencing the course or result of a sports event in order to obtain advantage for oneself or for others and to remove all or part of the uncertainty normally associated with sport.

The definition of match-fixing provided by the Australian Sport Minister (Sport and Recreation Ministers ‘Council Communiqué 2011) is even more complete: “Match-fixing involves the manipulation of an outcome or contingency by competitors, teams, sports agents, support staff, referees and officials and

venue staff. Such conduct includes:

a. the deliberate fixing of the result of a contest, or of an occurrence within the       contest, or of a points

spread;

b. deliberate underperformance;

c. withdrawal (tanking)2;

d. an official’s deliberate misapplication of the rules of the contest;

e. interference with the play or playing surfaces by venue staff; and

f. abuse of insider information to support a bet placed by any of the above or placed by a gambler who has recruited such people to manipulate an outcome or contingency”.

How are matches fixed?

By paying two or three key players in a team (e.g. goalkeeper, defenders, captain), a club can receive money by achieving a certain result (typically to lose a match or undertake a certain action). Typically, the match-fixers place massive bets in Asia both pre-match and live. The match is played and shows irregular betting patterns. A few days after the match has been played, outstanding salaries are paid, players and referees receive their payment. There is ALWAYS someone on the pitch, field, court involved in a fixed match, be it an athlete, player/s, or referee.