Czechia football has been rocked by a match-fixing scandal two days out from the crunch World Cup playoff against Ireland. In what’s being described as the “largest police crackdown in the history of Czech football", dozens of arrests have been made during dawn raids. They state: "Since 6am, a huge intervention of perhaps the largest scale in the history of Czech football has been underway. All is in coordination with the UEFA anti match-fixing unit.”According to media outlet Isport, the three-year investigation concerns alleged betting corruption in club matches from youth to first-team level. The probe is said to concentrate primarily on the area of Moravia, part of the eastern Brno region near the Slovakian border.

Source: Irish Examiner March 24, 2026 09:43 UTC