Finnish pesäpallo match-fixing scandal was a match fixing scandal in Finland that involved a large number of players, managers and other team officials of Superpesis, the top professional league of the Finnish sport of pesäpallo, a game similar to baseball.
Four out of five matches ended in a draw after two periods, paying high odds.
Most of them were never charged due to lack of evidence or for the reason that they were only lucky gamblers who had a hint on the results of meaningless games.
[1][2] All teams involved were relegated two levels down in the league system and Veikkaus imposed a ban on all betting on pesäpallo matches for six years.
Public interest on pesäpallo, which is considered to be the national game of Finland, fell for many years before recovering.