President of the European Police Office, Rob Wainwright said, 380 football match-fixing made, and one of them  to play in the Champions League.

The matches also included European Championship qualifiers, two Champions League games and some top flight league matches.

One Champions League match played in England was among the games fixed.

Rob Wainwright, head of the European police agency Europol, said the investigation had identified about 425 corrupt officials, players and serious criminals in 15 countries.

It had uncovered “match fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before”, he said.

Most of the allegedly fixed matches were played in Turkish, German and Swiss championships, but other matches around the world are also concerned.

Inquiries found evidence that a Singapore-based crime group was closely involved, spending up to 100,000 euros (£86,000) per match to bribe players and officials.

The probe uncovered 8m euros (£6.9m) in betting profits and 2m euros in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions.

Mr Wainwright said the involvement of organised crime “highlights a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe”.

It was not immediately clear how many of the matches mentioned have been revealed in previous match fixing investigations at a national level in countries including Germany and Italy.

At a news conference in The Hague, Europol showed television coverage of a suspect match, an international between Argentina and Bolivia, during which a Hungarian referee awards a highly dubious penalty.

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