{"id":84136,"date":"2025-11-21T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fifa-sanctions-atletico-san-cristobal-demotion-for-match-manipulation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:00:32","slug":"fifa-sanctions-atletico-san-cristobal-demotion-for-match-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/fifa-sanctions-atletico-san-cristobal-demotion-for-match-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Sanctions Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal: Demotion for Match Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>FIFA Expels Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal from the LDF for Match Manipulation<\/h2>\n\nThe F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced the immediate expulsion of Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal from the Dominican Republic Football League (LDF) 2025-26 season. The decision is based on the confirmation of the club&#8217;s involvement in activities related to match manipulation.\n\nThe FIFA Disciplinary Committee issued the sanction, communicated from Zurich, Switzerland. The team will be relegated to the LDF Expansion for the next season, according to Article 20 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, which prohibits any alteration or corruption in official competitions.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal club is expelled from the Dominican League (LDF) 2025-26 and the first team is relegated to the LDF Expansion starting next season for violating article 20 of the CDF, after participating in activities related to match manipulation,&#8221; the communication indicates.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nFurthermore, FIFA has instructed the Dominican Football Federation (Fedofutbol) to implement an educational prevention plan. This plan aims to combat match manipulation and strengthen the integrity of competitions in the country.\n\nThe sanction comes at a critical moment for Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal, who are in one of their worst sporting campaigns. The team occupies the last place in the standings with only two points, the result of two draws and eleven defeats in thirteen games.\n\nThis Saturday, the team was scheduled to face Moca FC. However, the expulsion has removed the team from the league schedule.\n\nThe measure represents one of the most severe punishments a Dominican club has received recently and highlights the concern about the impact of illegal betting and match-fixing in national sports.\n\nFIFA, by demanding a prevention plan, emphasizes the need to strengthen control mechanisms, education, and transparency in Dominican football.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA Expels Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal from the LDF for Match Manipulation The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced the immediate expulsion of Atl\u00e9tico San Crist\u00f3bal from the Dominican Republic Football League (LDF) 2025-26 season. The decision is based on the confirmation of the club&#8217;s involvement in activities related to match manipulation. The FIFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10521,957,1549,935],"class_list":{"0":"post-84136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-atletico-san-cristobal","9":"tag-fifa","10":"tag-ldf","11":"tag-match-fixing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}