Match fixing

THE CYPRUS Football Association (CFA) has asked police to investigate possible match-fixing of a local match after European football governing body UEFA sent out a warning last week, according to a CFA statement yesterday. 

On January 22, the CFA announced it had been sent a ‘yellow file’ on a match between Ethnikou Achnas and Ayia Napa which took place on January 19. 

Achnas beat Ayia Napa 2-1.  

The CFA said it has passed the file on to police to launch an investigation, as it has done in similar cases in the past. 

UEFA has sent ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ files to Cyprus in the past on games that raised suspicions, mainly due to information gathered from dubious goings-on in the football betting industry. 

A yellow file indicates that the match “could have been fixed” while red shows the game was “most probably fixed”.

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