This article is about the sports and criminal proceedings resulting from the 2006 Italian association football scandal. For a general overview and analysis of the scandal, see Calciopoli.
Sports proceedings began soon after Calciopoli, an association football scandal, was made public in May 2006. In July 2006, the Italian Football Federation's (FIGC) Federal Court of Justice started the sports trial. Juventus was relegated to Serie B with points-deduction, while other clubs (Arezzo, Fiorentina, Lazio, Milan, Pescara, Reggina, Siena, and Triestina) only received points deductions. Most of implicated club's presidents and executives, as well as referees, referee designators, referee assistants, and FIGC higher-ups were initially proposed to be banned for life but only Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo [it] and Juventus general director Luciano Moggi were confirmed to be banned for life. Two criminal trials took place in Naples, the first related to Calciopoli proper, while the second involved consultancy company GEA World, which was alleged to hold power over all transfers and Italian football players and agents; all defendants were acquitted of the stronger charges. The Naples trial resulted in Calciopoli bis, which implicated almost every Serie A club, including Inter Milan, to which it was awarded the 2006 scudetto. Moggi's legal defence attempted to present those new developments at the Naples court but they were refused because the court ruled that it was there to determinate whether Moggi's lifetime ban should be confirmed and the gravity of his actions, as was sentenced in the controversial 2006 sports trial.
The Naples trial much reduced Moggi's power and that of his charged criminal association (la Cupola, literally "the Dome"); nonetheless, based on the 2006 sports trial, the Naples Court of Appeal confirmed Moggi and Giraudo's lifetime ban, and Moggi's criminal association charge. In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in its final resolution that Moggi was acquitted of "some individual charges for sports fraud, but not from being the 'promoter' of the 'criminal conspiracy' that culminated in Calciopoli", although there were only 6 convictions (including Moggi and Giraudo) out of the initial 37 defendants; Massimo De Santis was the only referee to be convicted, while the other five's charges were annulled because of the statute of limitations. In 2018, the Supreme Court rejected Juventus's appeal, ending the dispute in the ordinary justice system. In 2020, the CONI's College of Guarantee declared the latest Juventus's appeal to not be admissible, also exhausting all the levels of judgment, and ending the dispute in the sports justice system. Both Moggi and Giraudo appealed to the European Court of Human Rights for the conduct of the trials, which remain a debated and controversial topic.
confirmed to be banned for life. Two criminal trials took place in Naples, the first related to Calciopoli proper, while the second involved consultancy...
Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie...
criminal trial. The related Calciopolitrials in Naples, which revealed the implications of many other clubs who could not be put on trial due to the...
avoided relegation and cleared the club's name much earlier than the Calciopolitrials of the 2010s. When Tangentopoli hit the country in the 1990s, Agnelli...
the non-assignment of the 2005 title, dependent on the results of Calciopolitrials connected to the 2006 scandal. When former general manager Luciano...
After being absolved as a club in the first justice proceedings, the Calciopolitrials that came during Agnelli's presidency confirmed the acquittal for...
sport, returned Juventus to dominance; in the aftermath of Calciopoli bis and the Calciopolitrials that acquitted the club, Agnelli also took a more radical...
club being acquitted and the leagues were ruled to be regular in the Calciopolitrials. In the words of Fulvio Bianchi, early 2000s Juventus were "stronger...
the non-assignment of the 2005 title, dependent on the results of Calciopolitrials connected to the 2006 scandal. When former general manager Luciano...
be re-instructed." The Calciopoli bis developments, as well as the Calciopolitrials in Naples, revealed the involvement of many other clubs and executives...
avoided relegation and cleared the club's name much earlier than the Calciopolitrials of the 2010s. It is argued that Agnelli would have taken the same...
thanked Montezemolo. As a company, Juventus were acquitted in the Calciopolitrials. In 2009, Grande Stevens was prosecuted for market manipulation in...
World Cup but was barred by the Italian Football Federation due to the Calciopoli scandal in 2006. De Santis strongly denied guilt, saying: "If I committed...
2006 Serie A Footballer of the Year. After the 2006 World Cup, the Calciopolitrial verdicts relegated Juventus to Serie B. Since Juventus were ineligible...
club being acquitted and the leagues were ruled to be regular in the Calciopolitrials. In the words of Fulvio Bianchi, Agnelli's Juventus were "stronger...
Giovanna, and four children. The role of Facchetti within the events of Calciopoli remained the subject of debate. As chairman of Inter, which benefitted...
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2023). "Tastiera Velenosa – Una nuova Calciopoli, ma forse pure peggio nei modi" [Tastiera Velenosa – A new Calciopoli, but perhaps even worse in the ways]...
lawyer of some of the most controversial trials in modern Italian history, from that of the Ustica affair to the trial of the Nazi Erich Priebke, and to the...
want to put Inter on trial. Chiacchio added that "Inter was saved because no one had the courage to appeal to justice. Calciopoli was just the tip of the...
the suffix -(o)poli is used as a generic suffix for a scandal (e.g. Calciopoli and Scommessopoli), much like -gate in the English language (i.e. Zippergate...
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29th scudetto (which was later assigned to Inter following the 2006 "Calciopoli" scandal). While in the Serie B, he started playing at centre back, partnering...
of the Tournament: 2006 The 2004–05 title, was revoked following the Calciopoli scandal. "Stephen Appiah". mobile.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020...
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