Moroccan Women’s Soccer Clubs Demand Investigation into Alleged Match-Fixing Scandal

Compromises, unsportsmanlike arrangements, match-fixing, would some matches have been manipulated in the women’s Botola? This is apparently what the officials of five clubs who are fed up with this gangrene seem to think, reports the daily Assabah, which mentions the willingness of the leaders to put an end to the bad practices within Moroccan women’s football.

Indeed, the victory of Amjad Taroudant over Chabab Atlas Khénifra (5-1) for the 20th matchday, sounded the death knell for the mobilization against corruption. An audio recording formally accuses the president of the Khénifra club of match-fixing, the daily reveals.

Five clubs led by Difaâ El Jadida have written and requested the opening of an investigation into this case. They took the opportunity to bring up the many complaints recorded here and there, denouncing a policy of double standards within the championship. Other evidence presented incriminates the president of the Khénifra club, who, according to the whistleblowers, enjoys impunity despite the multiple suspicions of match-fixing that weigh on her.

For example, the source points out, the DHJ accuses the president of the Khénifra club of deliberately losing against Taroudant to prevent it from being relegated. The club provides as evidence an audio recording in which the president would have declared her refusal to receive the original licenses of the players, documents that are still in the hands of the former general secretary of the club who was recently sanctioned by the FRMF and must never again work in the sports field.