The foundations of a great Marseille side came crumbling down in 1993 when it emerged that Tapie was involved in match fixing.

Marseille were stripped of their league title, banned from entering the Champions League and banned from entering the Intercontinental Cup.

Tapie received two years in prison whilst Marseille suffered financial problems and were demoted to Ligue 2.

Marseille were managed by Raymond Goethals at the time.

The manager was Raymond Goethals.

Goethals was banned from managing in Belgium for life along with 13 of the Standard Liege players.

Liege were allowed to keep their Belgian title and Goethals found a job at Marseille some years later.

This would have allowed Standard Liege to ensure victory and win the title trophy. It would've also allowed them to keep their players match-fit and uninjured for their game against Barcelona.

After the match-fixing scandal came to the fore, Goethals was banned from managing in Belgium for life. 13 Standard Liege players were also found quilty and banned from Belgian football.

Notably, Goethals would go on to coach Marseilles and bring them their Champions League trophy in 1993. In the same year that Tapei was involved in the club's Ligue 1 match-fixing scandal.

Based on the preliminary final league positions, Juventus and Milan would have earned a direct entry into the UEFA Champions League, Internazionale and Fiorentina would have entered the third qualifying round of the Champions League, while Roma, Lazio and Chievo would have been eligible for the UEFA Cup. On 6 June 2006, the FIGC officially withdrew from the 2006 Intertoto Cup, costing Palermo a place in the third round of the competition, citing the fact that the 2005–06 Serie A standings could not be confirmed by the 5 June deadline.

UEFA gave FIGC a 25 July 2006 deadline to confirm the standings or face sanctions in the two larger European competitions (then extended to 26 July). After the appeals, Inter, Roma, Chievo and Milan occupied Italy's four Champions League places for 2006–07. Inter and Roma received a direct entry into the Champions League, while Chievo and Milan started at the third qualifying round. Milan's entry was confirmed by UEFA shortly after the appeals process. Milan went on to win the competition. Palermo, Livorno and Parma took the UEFA Cup first-round slots originally given to Roma, Lazio and Chievo.^[13]

On 26 July, FIGC declared Inter as the Italian champion for the 2005–06 season.

Regarding this decision, Carlo Porceddu, a federal prosecutor from 1998 to 2001 and current vice president of the Federal Court of Appeal, stated in an interview with Unione Sarda: "Revoking (sic!) the 2005/2006 "scudetto" (championship) from Juventus and assigning to Inter it was a serious mistake. The Calciopoli investigation should have been more thorough, so much so that we, as the Federal Court, had limited the penalty to Juventus not withdrawing the championship title due to insufficient evidence. In fact, that aspect had been neglected. Then, the special commissioner of the Federation of that period had appointed a group of his friends, one of whom was also on the board of directors of Inter, and that title was revoked from Juventus and given to Inter. That was a grave error in my view." Purceddu had more than once in the past highlighted several points to be clarified on that investigation.

Juventus originally announced that they planned to appeal the punishment in the Italian civil courts, an action that would have brought further punishment to the clubs and the FIGC by FIFA, as FIFA has historically taken a dim view to government involvement in football administration. FIFA announced that it had the option to suspend the FIGC, thus barring all Italian clubs from international play, if Juventus went to court. Juventus dropped its appeal before the Lazio Regional Administrative Court on 31 August, the day before it was due to be heard. Juventus officials cited the "willingness shown by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) to review its case during (CONI's) arbitration."

On 26 October 2006, the second appeal reduced Lazio's penalty to three points, Juventus's reduced to nine points and Fiorentina's reduced to 15 points. Milan were unsuccessful and were still faced with an eight-point deduction.

Massimo De Santis was due to be Italy's refereeing representative at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but was barred by the FIGC after coming under investigation. Italiana referee Roberto Rosetti remained untainted by the scandal and was chose as one of the 21 2006 FIFA World Cup officials.

The scandal also drew attention to many potential conflicts of interest within Italian football. Adriano Galliani, as the Vice President and CEO of Milan, also served as the president of Serie A,

In addition to allegations of corruption and sporting fraud by owners, managers, players, referees and league officials, the host of Italy's most popular football show, Aldo Biscardi, resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi to boost the club's image on television.

In all, magistrates in Naples formally investigated 41 people and looked into 19 Serie A matches from the 2004/05 season and 14 Serie A matches from the 2005/06 season. Prosecutors in Turin examined the Juventus chairman Antonio Giraudo over transfers, suspected falsified accounts and tax evasion. Prosecutors in Parma investigated national team goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, Enzo Maresca, Antonio Chimenti and Mark Iuliano for suspected gambling on Serie A matches, but all were cleared in the same year.

After the first penalties were handed out, more teams were looked at for possible links to the scandal. Messina, Lecce and Siene were also investigated as prosecutors continued to analyse transcripts of telephone calls.

New details about the Calciopoli affair were disclosed by La Repubblica in April 2007 as Naples prosecutors were able to find a series of telephone calls through foreign SIM cards between Moggia, Bergamo, Pairetto and several referees. As the conversations were through foreign SIM cards, the Italian police could not tap them, so they could only try to match together phone numbers, numbers called and places. The SIM cards had been purchased in a store in Chiasso, Switzerland. Some SIM cards were Swiss and registered to the store owner's family, while the others came from an anonymous person in Liechtenstein. The prosecutors also discovered the use of a Slovenian SIM card. In this investigation they involved Moggi, Pairetto, Bergamo, Fabiani (Messina sporting director), the referees De Santis, Racalbuto, Paparesta, Pieri, Cassara, Dattilo, Bertini, Gabriele and the assistant Ambrosino. According to this investigation, Paparesta also used the Swiss SIM card for personal use and this helped the prosecutors to discover this secret communication channel. Apparently, Moggi had five foreign SIM cards, two of which had been used to communicate with Bergamo and Pairetto, whereas the others had supposed to have been used to communicate with the referees and Fabiani. Moreover, another wiretapping was recently unveiled by La Stampa. Although containing nothing truly comprimising, in the recording Moggi and Marcello Lippi (former coach of Juventus and the coach of the Italian national team at the time) clearly insulted Inter's president (Massimo Moratti) and trainer (Roberto Mancini), as Lippi stated that Mancini deserves a lesson while Moggia answered that Mancini would have such a lesson.

On April 26th 2007, La Repubblica's website published around two hundred audio files of the wiretappings, some published one year before in the written form and some never published. This allowed readers to perceive tones and forms of the conversations as well.

Milan, originally ejected from the 2006/07 Champions League due to the scandal, went on to win the competition on May 23rd 2007.

On June 17th 2007, on the Italian show Qui studio a voice Stadio, a popular football show broadcast by the local TV Telelombardia based in Milan, Bergamo admitted that Moggi actually gave two Swiss SIM cards to Pairetto and Pairetto gave one of those SIM cards to him. Bergamo stated that, on suspicion of being tapped, he used that SIM card only to communicate with Pairetto and that, after exhaustion of the credit, he did not use the SIM card anymore.

In June 2008, Juventus were fined a further 300,000 Euros in three instalments, Messina were fined 60,000 Euros.

On December 14th 2009, Antonio Giraudo was sentenced to three years in prison.

During the Calciopoli trial in Naples, the legal team of Luciano Moggi released a number of wiretapping showing that Milan and Inter had been involved too in the Serie A scandal during 2004 and 2005. Such wiretappings were involving Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani, Inter owner Massimo Moratti, then-Inter chairman Giacinto Facchetti and former referee designators Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto, as well as many other Italian clubs not previously mentioned in the scandal.

On 15 June 2011, FIGC announced that former Juventus directors Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo would be banned for life from any football-related roles in Italy. However, the sentence stated that no Article 6 (about match-fixing or attempted match-fixing) violations were found within the intercepted calls and the season was fair and legitimate. Furthermore, no requests for specific referees, no demands for favours and no conversations between Juventus directors and referees themselves were found.^[33][34]

In July 2011, FIGC Chief investigator Stefano Palazzi alleged in his report that, in addition to Luciano Moggi, the following club officials have also violated the Code of Sporting Justice by contacting referee designators in illegal manners.^[35]

According to Palazzi's findings, the clubs represented by the above people had to be punished during the Calciopoli trial, but no court could confirm these allegations since all facts are covered by the statute of limitation.^[36] Regarding Palazzi's report, Giancarlo Abete, then-president of FIGC, stated that there were no legal ground to revoke the title from Inter. However, he also hinted that Inter should give away the 2006 Serie A scudetto and leave it unassigned on the basis of ethics.^[37][38]

On 8 November 2011, Naples court issued the first conclusion of the criminal case against Luciano Moggi and the other football personalities involved, sentencing him to jail for five years and four months for "criminal association".^[39]

In December 2013, Moggi's sentence was reduced to two years and four months for being found guilty of conspiring to commit a crime, but the earlier charge of sporting fraud passed the statute of limitations.^[40]

On 23 March 2015, in its final resolution the Supreme Court ruled that Moggi was acquitted of "some individual charges for sporting fraud, but not from being the 'promoter' of the 'criminal conspiracy' that culminated in Calciopoli." Nevertheless, the remaining charges of Moggi were cancelled without a new trial due to the statute of limitations.^[41][42][43] Giraudo's sentence also expired in March 2015.^[44] Appeals by Fiorentina owners Andrea and Diego Della Valle and Lazio president Claudio Lotito against their sentences were also rejected on the same ground—their cases have also passed the statute of limitations.^[45]The court accepted the prosecutor's request to clear charges of former referees Paolo Bertini, Antonio Dattilo and Gennaro Mazzei, but rejected the appeals for Massimo De Santis and Savaltore Racabulto.^[46] Shortly after the court's decision, FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio remarked in an interview with ANSA that "while the motivations may be pending, the sentence confirms the thesis of the prosecution" and that "the crimes were real and so was the criminal conspiracy."^[47] In response to the final verdict, Moggi claimed that it merely let the courts off the hook, not him, therefore he vowed to turn to the European Court in hopes to have his ban from football world lifted.^[48]

On 9 September 2015, the Supreme Court released a 150-page document that explained its final ruling of the case. Despite that Moggi's remaining charges were cancelled without a new trial due to statute of limitations,^[41] the court made clear that Moggi's unwarranted activities incurred significant damage to Italian football not only in sporting, but also in economic terms. In the document, the court confirmed that Moggi was actively involved in the sporting fraud which was intended to favor Juventus and increase his own personal benefits.^[49] The document also stated that Moggi had "unjustified and excessive power within Italian football", which he used to exert influence over referees, other club officials and media, thereby creating "an illegal system to condition matches of the 2004/05 championship (and not just those)."^[50] On 15 March 2017, Moggi's lifetime ban was definitively confirmed on final appeal.^[51]

In September 2016, District Court rejected the claim from Juventus because it had no jurisdiction over CONI arbitration chamber's decision made in October 2006.^[52] In December 2018, the Supreme Court of Cassation upheld this District Court's decision.^[53] In January 2019, Juventus handed another appeal to Sports tribunal under CONI to have the 2005–06 Serie A title removed from Inter.^[54] The appeal was rejected on 6 May 2019.


Initial verdicts (bans July 2006, sentences November 2011) handed out to the following individuals, and subsequent acquittals due to expiration of the statue of limitations (March 2015):

 

Eight years later, Dr. B. Brookes Lee was arrested in Portland, Oregon. He had been accused of treating Sharkey to make it appear that he had been fouled by Fitzsimmons. Lee said, "I fixed Sharkey up to look as if he had been fouled. How? Well, that is something I do not care to reveal, but I will assert that it was done—that is enough. There is no doubt that Fitzsimmons was entitled to the decision and did not foul Sharkey. I got $1,000 for my part in the affair."^[24]

Early on in the clash, Cremonese players were visibly lethargic, with some barely being able to walk, and one player even crashed his car on the way home from the game.

Eventually, it was discovered that opposition goalkeeper Marco Paolini spiked some of the drinks with tranquilisers to fix the match and pay off his gambling debts.

Paolini was banned for five years, after the Italian FA discovered that he was linked with disgraced Singaporean businessman Dan Tan