Uefa plans match-fixing meeting

200 games believed to have been manipulated

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Uefa plans match-fixing meeting

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Uefa is to meet with officials from nine countries caught up in a European match-fixing scandal.

The respective national associations and leagues have been invited for summit talks as their domestic matches are among 200 suspected of being involved in an organised betting operation.

Games in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey are believed to have been manipulated.

Three matches from UEFA Champions League qualification, 12 from the Europa League and a qualifying match for the Under 21 European Championship is also under investigation.

"We are meeting to go through the information we have got and talk them through the process of how we have been involved," said Uefa spokesman Rob Faulkner.

"It's a criminal investigation and as such we are bound by the prosecutor's office in Germany as to the information we can disclose."

Uefa's investigation is the biggest to be conducted into corruption in football and could have far-reaching consequences for those involved.

European football's governing body has already demanded that there be 'the harshest of sanctions' for any individuals, clubs or officials implicated in match-fixing.