This is how it has gone in the Court of Appeal in previous match-fixing cases that have reached a Swedish court:

Värnamo case - conviction

A 25-year-old man was acquitted in Jönköping District Court for aggravated bribery, but was convicted by a dissenting Göta Court of Appeal for aiding and abetting a bribe.

He was sentenced to a suspended sentence and a daily fine.

The man is considered to have participated in trying to bribe three players in IFK Värnamo before a Superettan meeting with Gais in 2013. The 25-year-old was himself a football player, but not in either of the two clubs.

The three players, who refused to take part in a lay match, were approached a few days later by two unknown men, who both offered payment and threatened them.

They stood by their no and told instead of their club about what had happened.

This led to a police report and that Svenska spel stopped the game at the match.

Skånefallet - conviction

The first - and so far only - case where an accused told that he had been involved in trying to manipulate football matches.

The football player admitted that he received a bribe in connection with three matches in Division 1 in the autumn of 2013 and the spring of 2014.

He and two other co-accused teammates are also said to have been threatened by two match-fixers after failing to manipulate a result for their club in one of the three matches.

The testimony was not enough for a conviction in the district court, but the six men were convicted by the Court of Appeal over Skåne and Blekinge in the summer of 2016.

The two principals were sentenced to one year and one year and two months in prison, respectively, for extortion and unlawful coercion, although one was also sentenced to give a bribe.

A former player of the club was also sentenced for giving a bribe to a suspended sentence and a daily fine.

It is the same 25-year-old who was convicted of bribery in connection with the match between IFK Värnamo and Gais in the Superettan.

The three football players were sentenced to probation, two of which will also pay a daily fine, for taking a bribe.

The youth case - acquittal

Two youth players from a football club south of Stockholm were charged with trying to bribe a teammate in the autumn of 2017 to arrange a certain final result in a U19 match and they themselves must have underperformed in the match.

The district court sentenced the players to a suspended sentence for giving a bribe, but the Court of Appeal overturned the sentence in April 2019 and acquitted both players.

In September 2019, the Swedish Sports Council (Rin) banned the two players from all forms of sports - training, competition, demonstration and performing assignments - until 3 May 2021.

The AIK case - conviction

Two former football players tried to set up the all-Swedish meeting between IFK Gothenburg and AIK, which was supposed to have been played on May 18, 2017. Due to the suspected match-fixing attempt, the match was canceled.

The players were acquitted at the end of 2018 by the Stockholm District Court for gross giving of bribes.

The district court considered that there had been an approach against AIK's then second goalkeeper, but that the offer of match-fixing was not concrete enough for a conviction.

The prosecution side appealed the verdict and in November 2019, the Svea Court of Appeal sentenced the men to a suspended sentence and a daily fine.

The bribery was not considered serious.

The Court of Appeal considered that the offer that the goalkeeper received "clearly" should be seen as "a criminal offer of bribery" and that it was a "significant amount".