At least two top-class games of the
2009-2010 season have been manipulated. The
games involved the Tilburg club, Willem-II.
Match fixers from Singapore bribed players a total of 100,000 Euros per
game to lose games while maintaining certain scores. These facts result from an
investigation held by the Dutch daily Volkskrant. The football association, KNVB, will put in a
complaint regarding this issue with the prosecutor’s office. This is the first time that it has become publicly
known that Dutch soccer games have been manipulated by gamblers. In most other European countries, this has
already been known to happen. Some say that these two cases are the merely the
tip of the iceberg of match-fixing in Dutch leagues.
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