Perhaps the most well-known example of a settled match is the canceled match between AIK and IFK Gothenburg three years ago. A former AIK player contacted the goalkeeper in AIK and tried to get him to join the match. The incident was reported to the police and the former AIK player was then sentenced in the courthouse for bribery.

SVT Sports' survey shows that the match between AIK and IFK Gothenburg is not the only match where something similar has happened at the elite level. The questionnaire, which was sent out to all players in the Allsvenskan, Superettan and one, shows that match fixing is seriously in Swedish football - and that it makes it all the way up to the absolute elite.

In the survey, 17 of the 619 responding players state that they were contacted by someone who wanted help with fixing a match.

82 players state that they have played matches that they suspect were pre-arranged.

73 players know of one or some matches that have been fixed, which has not been reported in the media, and 92 players (almost 15 percent of respondents) state that they have heard teammates talk about fixed matches.

- 15 percent is a very high figure. It is important that you know the rules that exist in our regulations, that you have a duty to notify and can not only be penalized if you fix matches yourself, but even if you do not come forward and tell about what you know, says Johan Claesson, who is the integrity officer at the Swedish Football Association, and thus responsible for the match-fixing work at the union.

- You have to take responsibility and lighten the lid on the culture of silence that unfortunately exists to some extent.

How big a problem is the culture of silence, that you dare not talk about what you know?

- It is a very big problem. We notice that as we try to investigate matches, and the police. There we have a job to do, we have to make the players understand that you can't hold each other's backs when it comes to these things. It is an extremely serious topic that concerns the identity of football.

- Without pure matches, the sport is largely destroyed. There, everyone must pull their straw to the stack to counter it.

Svenska Fotbollförbundet investigated 47 games last year, which they suspected were fixed. Håkan Sjöstrand, secretary general of the union, says that they take the situation seriously.

- We have to spend a few million a year in resources to try to counter this. We have 2.5-3 services that work with investigative work of various kinds. There are contacts with police, prosecutors and authorities. We also work together in Europe with the help of Uefa, where you monitor and identify various odds movements that are happening in the market, says Sjöstrand, who is seeking help from others to solve the problems:

- Above all, we need game legislation and regulations that ensure what we have been promised. Because today, it is as liberal as anything, everything is allowed to play on and we think it is both irresponsible, unacceptable and outright wrong to allow.

Crime Commissioner Fredrik Gårdare, who heads the police's "Action Group Sport", which works against sports-related crime, says that despite the dark figures, he sees that both the Swedish Football Association and the police work better now than before.

- There is a lot more to do, but we see a big change to the past. A few years ago, police and sports did virtually nothing. But now we prioritize it a few years back, and sports prioritize it, he says, and continue:

- We are heading in the right direction, clearly. We have made it much more difficult for the criminal networks to tinker with this. We discover many more cases and have more investigations. But we think we are making it more difficult and have made it much more difficult for them.

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