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Match-fixing/ UEFA bans two European clubs for 7 years
2025-11-01 23:29:46 / SPORT
Two European clubs are currently serving seven-year suspensions from all UEFA competitions due to a series of disciplinary violations.
UEFA has imposed bans on a number of football clubs in recent years and on the entire country of Russia as a whole. All Russian clubs are currently banned from participating in UEFA competitions, a decision that was made shortly after the country's illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2024.
Two clubs from other countries are also suffering suspensions, with one team banned from UEFA competitions for a total of seven years in 2021.
Latvian club FK Ventspils was expelled from UEFA competitions after European football's governing body accused them of 'fraud, bribery and corruption, as well as breaching the integrity of matches and competitions'. More specifically, UEFA's investigation focused on allegations of match-fixing during a Europa League qualifying match between Ventspils and Ligue 1 side Bordeaux – the latter were not involved in the affair – in July 2018.
Meanwhile, Ventspils president Adlan Shishkanov was charged with the same offences and banned for life by the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body. Meanwhile, sporting director Nikolajs Djakins was banned for four years for the same charges. However, the ban no longer applies because Ventspils was dissolved as a team in July 2021, a month after the ban was announced, due to financial problems and was subsequently liquidated in January 2024. Another club, JFK Ventspils, was established later that year and competes in the Latvian second division. It is not clear whether the ban applies to the new club, which will have to either win the Latvian Cup or be promoted to the Latvian Higher League and then finish in the top three next season for the ban to take effect.
There is a second team also serving a seven-year ban from UEFA competitions, Montenegrin side FK Arsenal Tivat, who are currently suspended for match-fixing. They were accused of breaching regulations relating to 'general principles of conduct' and 'the integrity of matches and competitions, as well as match-fixing'. UEFA investigated a 2023 Europa League match against Armenian side Alashkert, resulting in an initial 10-year ban for the club and a lifetime ban for Arsenal Tivat defender Nikola Celebic.
Teammates Cetko Manojlović, Radule Živković and Dušan Paletić were all banned for 10 years, although Paletić's ban was later overturned on appeal. The club's ban was also reduced to seven years after a partially successful appeal, up to and including the 2031/32 season.
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