Syria national football team Syria national football team The Syria national football team (, ) represents Syria in association football and is controlled by the Syrian Arab Federation for Football, the governing body for football in Syria. Syria's home grounds are Abbasiyyin Stadium and Aleppo International Stadium. Syria has never qualified for the World Cup finals but did reach the fourth qualification round in 2018. Syria participated in the 1950 and 1958 World Cup qualifiers, one of the first teams in the region to do so. Between 1958 and 1961, the team combined with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic national football team,
Match-fixing in English football to "ongoing judicial proceedings". Six people were arrested by the National Crime Agency in the wake of an investigation by the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper in November 2013. Match-fixing in English football Over the course of the game's history, several incidents relating to match-fixing in English football have taken place. From 1893–1898, a form of play-offs known as "test matches" were used to decide promotion and relegation between the two divisions of the Football League. Initially they were direct ties between two teams, but from 1896 a round-robin format was used. In the 1898 test matches, earlier results meant Stoke and