UEFA has suspended Montenegro’s FK Arsenal Tivat from all of its club competitions for ten years and imposed a €500,000 fine after finding the team guilty of match fixing during a 2023–24 Europa Conference League qualifying tie against Armenia’s Alashkert FC. The European governing body said its Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body issued the sanctions following an investigation into suspicious betting patterns and other integrity breaches surrounding the two-legged fixture, which Alashkert won 7-2 on aggregate after a 6-1 second-leg victory. Defender Nikola Celebic and club director Ranko Krgovic received lifetime bans from all football-related activities, while captain Cetko Manojlovic, defenders Radule Zivkovic and Dusan Puletic, and official Milan Vignjevic were each barred for ten years. Goalkeeper Christos Psomiadis was suspended for eight years and official Goran Janjusevic for six. UEFA said it will ask FIFA to extend the individual sanctions worldwide, underscoring the organisation’s broader campaign to protect sporting integrity across its competitions.
La UEFA suspendió al club Arsenal Tivat de competiciones europeas por 10 años, además de sancionar de por vida a jugador y directivo https://t.co/mHxpXIjYeh
UEFA have handed a ten-year ban to a club after an investigation into allegations of match-fixing https://t.co/QwcE1L51Pb https://t.co/U3Ie7ecA5Q
Uefa bans disgraced club from all competitions for TEN YEARS over match fixing in Conference League https://t.co/8QxJK1ocF0