SFA bans Nigerian international midfielder over match fixing

The Swedish Football Association have hit Nigerian International midfielder Dickson Etuhu with a five-year football ban for his involvement in a 2017 match-fixing scandal,National Daily learnt.

The ban will run till April 13, 2025 and will prevent Etuhu from participating in any football related activity in Sweden.

The former Fulham & Mancity man was found guilty in court last November. The offence involved a match between his Stockholm based team AIK and IFK Göteborg in the Allsvenskan.

Etuhu was found guilty of offering money to teammate Kyriakos Stamatopoulos, who was AIK’s back-up goalkeeper at the time, to allow Göteborg to win.