Both teams eventually were investigated and fined by the Chinese Football Association (CFA) in 2000 for passive play[1] as no evidence of bribery was found.
In a documentary of the game aired by CCTV-5's Football Night program, referee Lu Jun was suggested to play a central role in ensuring final round's results.
In response, CFA changed its code of conduct to include point deduction as a punishment for passive play.
[3] Zhang Jianqiang, the director of the CFA's referee committee who was bribed by the president of the Shenyang Haishi club, appointed Lu Jun to be the fourth official of the game, who just negotiated a plan for Guangzhou Songsi to lose to Tianjin Taida.
Both Zhang and Lu were convicted by the Tieling Intermediate People's Court for their roles in fixing the match among other charges, and were banned from football for life, initially by CFA,[5] and then by FIFA.