{"id":5173,"date":"2025-12-19T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:20:32","slug":"a-league-four-players-banned-for-several-years-for-match-fixing-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5173","title":{"rendered":"A-League: Four players banned for several years for match-fixing offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Four players have been banned from ?all ?football-related activity for several years for their part in match-fixing offences in Australia&#8217;s A-League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kearyn Baccus and ex-New Zealand international Clayton Lewis were paid A$10,000 (\u00a34,940) each to get themselves booked during Macarthur FC&#8217;s game against Sydney FC in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-24\/a-league-betting-clayton-lewis-kearyn-baccus-sentencing\/105811400\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">sentenced to a two-year conditional release order<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> in September and have now been banned for five years by Football Australia, effective from May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also accepted the offer of completing 200 hours of unpaid football-related community service ?to reduce their bans by 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Riku Danzaki and Japanese compatriot ?Yuta Hirayama have been banned for seven years from June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Western United midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-13\/riku-danzaki-western-united-illegal-a-league-betting-scheme\/105648718\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Danzaki pleaded guilty in August<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> to deliberately earning yellow ?cards in multiple A-League games in April and May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He received A$16,000 (\u00a37,900) from bets placed by his friend Hirayama, an amateur player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All four ?have decided not to exercise their ?right to appeal and accepted the sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgjzprr929o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four players have been banned &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}