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Sligo’s Europa opponents embroiled in match-fixing claims
November 26, 2009
Albanian side FK Vllaznia, who knocked Irish side Sligo Rovers out of the Uefa Europa League in July, are one of five clubs named by Uefa as part of a probe into match-fixing.
Uefa and world governing body Fifa have pledged to investigate increasingly irregular betting patterns on football matches.
The other four clubs named by Uefa on Wednesday are Vllaznia’s fellow Albanians KF Tirana, FC Dinaburg of Latvia, Slovenia’s NK IB Ljubljana and Budapest Honved of Hungary.
Sligo’s Europa League matches, in which Vllaznia won 2-1 at the Showgrounds before a 1-1 second leg draw in Albania, are not in question, but Vllaznia’s second qualifying round game against Austrian big guns Rapid Vienna is under investigation.
Other games being probed are the Uefa Champions League qualifier between Norway’s Stabaek IF and Tirana and the Europa League games involving Israel’s Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv and Dinaburg, and NK IB Ljubljana and Ukraine’s Metallurg Donetsk.
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2009 Premier Division - 8/11/2009 |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
| 1. Bohemians | 36 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 62 | 21 | 41 | 77 |
2. Shamrock Rovers | 36 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 51 | 27 | 24 | 73 |
| 3. Cork City | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 42 | 28 | 14 | 60 |
4. Dundalk | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 46 | 51 | -5 | 44 |
| 5. Sligo Rovers | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 41 | 51 | -10 | 43 |
6. St Patrick's Ath | 36 | 13 | 4 | 19 | 29 | 46 | -17 | 43 |
| 7. Galway Utd | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 36 | 57 | -21 | 42 |
8. Drogheda Utd | 36 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 50 | -18 | 32 |
| 9. Bray Wanderers | 36 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 56 | -26 | 28 |
10. Derry City | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 49 | 31 | 18 | 59* |
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* - Derry stripped of League of Ireland status following breach of contract regulations |
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