Maltese footballer Kevin Sammut has been given a 10-year suspension from UEFA for match fixing.
Sammut has been banned from football-related activity by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body for breaching the association’s principles of integrity and sportsmanship (involvement in attempting to manipulate the outcome of a match).
The match under investigation was the European Championship Group C qualifying match in Oslo between Norway and Malta, which ended in 4-0 in June 2007.
Suspicions were raised after three goals were scored in the final 18 minutes of the game and a number of large bets placed on the outcome. Summut was substituted at half-time and is intending to appeal against the ruling.
The findings from UEFA’s Control and Disciplinary Board of two other Malta players, Kenneth Scicluna and Stephen Wellman, are insufficient to take any disciplinary action against them. FIFA will be requested to extend the present decision so as to give it worldwide effect.
An appeal may be lodged within three days of the dispatch of the reasoned decision.
