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Nyon, home to European football's Uefa

Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Uefa, the European football governing body, is extending its investigation into match-fixing to seven additional matches played in July 2009 involving five football clubs in Albania, Hungary, Latvia and Slovenia. The announcement came at the close of a three-hour meeting in Nyon 25 November that Uefa had called with nine national football associations.

The group was called in after the public prosecutor’s office in Bochum, Germany opened a criminal investigation into illegal betting on 38 matches between European clubs, which it says were fixed in 2009. Uefa says it will make available the results from its Betting Fraud Detection System to the German police. The system monitors betting and signals irregularities for all Uefa matches and all national first and second-division matches in Europe

Uefa administrative staff, officials not under investigation

Uefa says it is investigating three referees and one other person connected to the organization, but that press reports claiming involvement by Uefa officials are premature. “Contrary to media reports there is no suspicion or investigation into any Uefa administration staff,” says the organization’s secretary-general, Gianni Infantino.

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