Totonero 1986 or Totonero bis was a scandal of football match fixing in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

between 1984 and 1986 in

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

and

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

. It was uncovered in May 1986 by Italian Police and Armando Carbone, a friend of

Italo Allodi Italo Allodi (Asiago, 13 April 1928 – Florence, 3 June 1999) was an Italian association football player and manager. Career Allodi was born the son of a railwayman. He served in an official position for various and Italian football clubs, i ...

(manager of Napoli), and in this scandal there were managers and football players that sold the football matches for money.

Club punishments

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

(Serie A); -9 in Serie A 1986–87 (relegated in Serie B in original punishment). *

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

(Serie B); -5 in Serie B 1986–87. *

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(Serie B); -9 in Serie B 1986–87 (relegated in Serie C1 in original punishment). *

Lanerossi Vicenza L.R. Vicenza, commonly referred to as Vicenza, is an Italian football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, they became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953, then Vicenza Calcio from 1990 to 2018, a year whi ...

(Serie B); exclusion from Serie A 1986–87. *

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club has been re-established several times in its history. As of the ...

(Serie B); -1 in Serie B 1985–86 and -4 in Serie B 1986–87. *

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

(Serie B); relegated in Serie C2 and -2 in 1986–87 (relegated in Serie C2 and -5 in 1986–87 in original punishment). *

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

(Serie B); -5 in Serie B 1986–87. *

Foggia Foggia (, , ; nap, label= Foggiano, Fògge ) is a city and former ''comune'' of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. In 2013, its population was 153,143. Foggia is the main city of a plain called Tavoliere, also known ...

(Serie C1); -5 in Serie C1 1986–87 (relegated in Serie C2 in original punishment). *

Cavese Cavese 1919 S.r.l., commonly known as just Cavese, is an Italian football club based in Cava de' Tirreni, Campania, that currently plays in . The first city club was founded in 1919 as Unione Sportiva Cavese. It was refounded as Pro Cavese in 1 ...

(Serie C1); relegated in Serie C2 and -5 in 1986–87.

Sentences

Presidents * Guerino Amato (Cavese's president); 5 years with exclusion from

FIGC The Italian Football Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio; FIGC), known colloquially as ''Federcalcio'', is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It ...

. * (Perugia's president); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * Dario Mascharin (Vicenza's president); 3 years (5 years with exclusion from FIGC in original punishment). * Salvatore Matta (Palermo's president); 4 months. * (Ascoli's president); 4 months. Managers and coaches *

Guido Magherini Guido Magherini (born 2 July 1951 in Florence) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played 4 seasons (16 games without scoring) in Serie A for Lazio and A.C. Milan, and made nearly 200 appearances in Serie B. He represen ...

(Rondinella); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * (Udinese); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * (Sarnico); 3 years and 9 months (3 years and 3 months in original punishment). * Ernesto Bronzetti (Foggia); 3 years (5 years with exclusion from FIGC in original punishment). * (Pro Vercelli); 3 years. * (Vicenza); 3 years. *

Renzo Ulivieri Renzo Ulivieri (born 2 February 1941) is an Italian association football manager. He is the current chairman of the ''Associazione Italiana Allenatori Calcio'' (Italian Football Managers' Association). Career After a very short playing career as ...

(

's coach); 3 years. *

Francesco Janich Francesco Janich (; 27 March 1937 – 2 December 2019) was an Italian footballer who played as a sweeper. Club career During his club career, Janich played for Atalanta (1956–58), Lazio (1958–61), and Bologna (1961–72) in Serie A, as well ...

(Bari); 6 months (1 year in original punishment). *

Aldo Agroppi Aldo Agroppi (; born 14 April 1944) is a professional Italian football coach and a former footballer, who played as a midfielder. Club career Agroppi played for 12 seasons (249 games, 17 goals) in Serie A with clubs Torino Calcio and Perugia C ...

(Perugia's coach); 4 months. * Onofrio Schillaci (Palermo); 4 months. * (Vicenza); 4 months. * Giorgio Vitali (Monza); 4 months. Players * Franco Cerilli (Vicenza); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. *

Claudio Vinazzani Claudio Vinazzani (18 April 1954) is an Italian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Carrara, Vinazzani began playing football with local side Massese. After several seasons in the lower levels, including spells with C ...

(Lazio); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * Giovanni Lorini (Monza); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * Maurizio Rossi (Pescara); 5 years with exclusion from FIGC. * Massimo Caccia (Messina); 5 years. * (Palermo); 3 years and 1 month. *

Giovanni Vavassori Giovanni Vavassori (born 16 January 1952) is an Italian football manager and former player who last managed Verona. Playing career Born in Arcene, Bergamo, Vavassori started his playing career with Atalanta, where he made his Serie A debut in ...

( Campania-Puteolana); 3 years and 4 months (3 years in original punishment). * Giovanni Bidese (Pro Vercelli); 3 years and 3 months (3 years in original punishment). * (Triestina); 3 years. * (Perugia); 3 years. * (Palermo); 3 years. * Giacomo Chinellato (Cagliari); 2 years. * (Spal); 1 year and 6 months (3 years in original punishment). * Alfio Filosofi (Virescit Bergamo); 6 months (1 year in original punishment). *

Onofrio Barone Onofrio Barone (born 4 July 1964) is an Italian football coach and former player. Playing career Barone started his career at hometown club Palermo, a club he left in 1986 after it went bankrupt. He then joined Foggia in 1987 after a single negat ...

(Palermo); 5 months. *

Luigi Cagni Luigi "Gigi" Cagni (born 14 June 1950 in Brescia) is an Italian former football player, who played as a defender. He most recently served head coach of Brescia in the Serie B league in the final weeks of the 2016–17 Serie B season. Playing ...

(Sambenedettese); 4 months. * Antonio Gasparini (Monza); 4 months. * Mario Giudetti (Pro Vercelli); 4 months. * (Brescia); 4 months. * (Sambenedettese); 4 months. * (Cesena); 4 months. * Stefano Donetti (Martina Franca); 3 months. * Silvano Benedetti (Palermo); 1 month. * Tebaldo Bigliardi (Palermo); 1 month. * Massimo Bursi (Palermo); 1 month. *

Gianni De Biasi Giovanni "Gianni" De Biasi (, sq, Xhovani "Xhani" De Biazi), born 16 June 1956 is an Italian football coach and former player. He holds dual Italian and Albanian citizenship. De Biasi was the first coach of the Albania national team to lead th ...

(Palermo); 1 month. * (Palermo); 1 month. * (Palermo); 1 month. * (Palermo); 1 month. *

Claudio Pellegrini Claudio Pellegrini (born in Rome on May 9, 1935) is an Italian/American physicist known for his pioneering work on X-ray free electron lasers and collective effects in relativistic particle beams.Mario Romiti (Barletta); 1 month. * Orazio Sorbello (Palermo); 1 month.

Aftermath

* Udinese and Cagliari were relegated from Serie A and Serie B, respectively, the following season. Udinese would have remained in Serie A if not for their point deduction, but Cagliari would have been relegated even without the penalty.

References

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