Trabzonspor challenge puts Gianni Infantino’s stint at Uefa under scrutiny

• Fifa president accused of permitting lax approach towards match-fixing
• Turkish Football Federation’s ruling on Fenerbahce for 2010-11 disputed

The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has been accused of permitting a lax approach towards match-fixing when he was Uefa general secretary during the 2010‑11 scandals within Turkish football, which still reverberate years later.

Fenerbahce won the 2011 Turkish Super League on goal difference from Trabzonspor but 36 officials and players were later convicted of match-fixing in criminal proceedings in Turkey, including the president, Aziz Yildirim, who was sentenced to six years and three months in prison. In 2015, after Turkey under its president Recep Erdogan abolished the special courts that heard the Fenerbahce cases, Yildirim and the other defendants were acquitted of the charges in retrials.

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