Wednesday 25 January 2012

Stop Match-fixing in Sport

 The manipulation of sports results or ‘match-fixing’ refers to the irregular influencing of the course or the 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 the results of a competition.

...stop match-fixing from destroying your career and your sport.


Ian Smith of the PCA and Jonas Baer-Hoffmann from SP.IN voicing their concerns about the integrity of sports and comment on the EU Athletes, EGBA, ESSA Education Project for professional athletes.

HERE SOME USEFUL RESOURCES...

Sports Federations and Organisations

•    European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL)
EPFL Football Betting Manifesto, EPFL Code of Conduct on Sports Betting Integrity, EPFL Betting Operators Standards
Website: www.epfl-europeanleagues.com

•    European Union (EU) Athletes
Code of Conduct on Sports Betting for Athletes
Website: http://www.sportsbetting-code.org/

•    International Cricket Council (ICC)
Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU)
Website: http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/anti_corruption/
email :     contactACSU@icc-cricket.com
ACSU hotline tel : +971 4 3417225.

•    International Tennis Federation (ITF), ATP, WTA and the Grand Slam Committee
Tennis Integrity Unit
Website: http://www.tennisintegrityunit.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 8392 4798; Fax: +44 (0)20 8876 2743
Email: info@tennisintegrityunit.com

•    SportAccord
Global Programme to Stop Match-fixing in Sport
Contact

•    UEFA Integrity Platform
Website: https://uefa.integrityline.org/

•    United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Website:  www.dontbetonit.org

•    United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Website: Sports Bribery Programme website:  http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/sports_bribe


Inter-Governmental Organisations

•    Council of Europe
Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)10 of the Committee of Ministers to member states  on promotion of the integrity of sport against manipulation of results, notably match-fixing

•    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
United Nations Convention Against Corruption
Website: www.unodc.org

Gambling Addiction Centres

•    Gamblers Anonymous
Website : http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/index.php

•    Sporting Chance
Website: www.sportingchanceclinic.com

•    United States National Council on Problem Gambling
Fax : 001 202 547 9206
Email: ncpg@ncpgambling.org
Website: www.ncpgambling.org

Generic tools have been developed by SportAccord's Global Programme, free of charge, for use by international sports federations, athletes and officials including:

-    E-Learning Programme ‘How to Prevent Match-Fixing from Destroying your Career’.
-    SportAccord Guide to ‘Integrity in Sport:  Understanding and Preventing Match-Fixing’
-    Code of Conduct on Sports Betting Integrity for Athletes and Officials
-    Model Rules on Sports Integrity in Relation to Sports Betting



-SportAccord