2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2 | Messages and Voices Messages and Voices | 3 “Betting fraud is the new threat to sport world- There is quite wide. With its education and training courses, consultations and information events, Play a lot to say about Fair Code is creating broad awareness of the threats of match-fixing. It is helping us protect the issue of our athletes and defend the integrity of sport.” match-fixing! Gerald KLUG AUSTRIAN MINISTER OF SPORT “People love to watch sports “We not only succeeded in organising nearly “Fairness and integrity are sport’s most im- 100 training and education courses aimed at portant attributes, and crucial prerequisites if because they don’t know our core target audiences in 2015; we also we want competitive sport to remain attrac- played an important role on the international tive – and that goes not just for spectators, stage once again, as a model for best prac- but also for the athletes themselves. Play Fair how it’s going to end!” tice. Play Fair Code has some extremely Code is playing a hugely important role in pre- Sepp Herberger exciting challenges facing it in the future, venting match-fixing in Austria, and by doing Former manager, German national football team especially the Council of Europe’s recent so, keeping sport clean, the way we all want it. Convention on the Manipulation of Sports That’s why I shall be continuing to work side- Competitions and the National Platform being by-side with Play Fair Code in 2016.” set up.” Günter KALTENBRUNNER Dietmar HOSCHER PRESIDENT, PLAY FAIR CODE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CASINOS AUSTRIA „It has been a good thing to remind our-selves of this issue once again; it’s incre-dible just what vast sums of money the betting mafia are dealing with. We need football to be clean and credible. Therefore training measures of this sort should be welcomed.“ Marcel KOLLER MANAGER, AUSTRIAN NATIONAL TEAM 4 | Association News Association News| 5 PLAY FAIR CODE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE At the 4th General Meeting of Play Fair Code held on 7 May 2015 the entire Executive Board and both auditors of Play Fair Code were unanimously re-elected for another term in office. This will last 3 years, until 6 May 2018. Austrian Football Association General Director Alfred Ludwig: “In the sense of continuity and sustainability, I would like to say how pleased I am that the entire team of President Günter Kaltenbrunner will be taking forward the highly successful work Play Fair Code has been doing to highlight the issue of integrity in sport for another term in office, and would like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate them all.” TIPP3 AND CASHPOINT NEW MEMBERS AXEL BAMMER NEW Two more leading sports betting providers, tipp3 and Cashpoint, have become extraordina- ry members of the Play Fair Code family. These partnerships represent a logical deepening EXECUTIVE COMMIT- of our organisation’s positioning for integrity in sport, and send an important signal in the fight against match-fixing. TEE MEMBER Axel Bammer, Chief Operating Officer of the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League, was appointed as a new Executive Commit- tee Member at the 14th Executive Com- mittee Meeting of Play Fair Code. He will support the team as a Financial Officer of Play Fair Code in the future. COCA COLA Play Fair Code won another well- known supporter in its fight against match-fixing and for integrity in sport, with the sponsorship commitment of Coca-Cola. 6 | Training and Seminars Training and Seminars | 7 DORNBIRNER EISHOCKEY CLUB, EC VSV, EC-KAC, EC Red Bull Salzburg, EHC LIWEST BLACK WINGS Linz, HC ORLI ZNOJMO, HC TWK ERSTE BANK Innsbruck „Die Haie“, HCB Südtirol, HDD TELEMACH ICE HOCKEY OLIMPIJA Ljubljana, MOSER MEDICAL GRAZ 99ers, SAPA LEAGUE Fehérvár AV19, UPC VIENNA CAPITALS “If you want to successfully prevent match-fixing, you EC-KAC: Head coach Doug Mason need to build awareness of and captain Johannes Reichel the issue and alert people First round of education and training to its dangers.” successfully completed at EBEL clubs In an education module specially tailored Günter Kaltenbrunner to the needs of ice hockey, the top teams President, Play Fair Code in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League were alerted to the issues of betting fraud and match-fixing using specific case studies, and the awareness of the question of integrity in sport raised amongst the players. EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz: Head coach EC Red Bull Salzburg: Head coach Dan Rob Daum and forward Daniel Oberkofler Ratushny and captain Matthias Trattnig 8 | Training and Education Training and Seminars | 9 UEFA MEETS PLAY FAIR CODE As Austrian national youth teams successful- ly made it through the qualifi cation rounds of Compelling details of the background to the Austrian various UEFA competitions, the national teams Football League match-fi xing case in 2013 are now of Austria, Albania, Ukraine, Scotland, Italy, Cro- being presented as part of in-depth talks with for- atia, Denmark, Sweden and Norway were also mer player Dominique Taboga, who was banned for given education courses on the issue of match- life in the case. Taboga communicates his thoughts to fi xing. Play Fair Code was supported by Thomas players attending Play Fair Code training courses in a Hollerer, the Austrian Football League’s Integri- short video clip. ty Offi cer and Director of Law & Administration. Play Fair Code CEO Severin Moritzer: “We are happy to have had the chance to work with the Austrian Football League and UEFA once again GUEST OF THE NATIONAL TEAM in this training and education events, and to In another key part of the training module, top Austrian footballers playing in leagues across Europe were contribute to raise awareness amongst young provided with education and information about match-fi xing and betting fraud. As well as looking at the athletes of the importance of credibility and regulations in Austria itself, the players also attended talks on how the issues are dealt with in Germany, integrity in sports.” England, Switzerland, Italy and Ukraine. The manager of the Austrian national team, Marcel Koller, said: „We need football to be clean and credible. Therefore training measures of this sort should be welcomed.“ EDUCATION IN AUSTRIA’S THIRD OUR TRAINING TABLE IN 2015 LEAGUES ASSOCIATIONS CLUBS/TEAMS TRAINING PARTICIPANTS Summary of training in the Austrian regional league 13 16 480 From June 2015 onwards, Play Fair Code and its training programme toured EBEL (ice hockey, incl. EBYSL & EBJL youth leagues) Austria’s three regional football leagues, which are home to 48 clubs. 1 1 70 Having already run several highly successful training courses and events for ÖSV (skiing) professional footballers in Austria’s national league, Play Fair Code deliberately chose this year to focus its all-important awareness-raising on players in these ÖFB (football, incl. regional leagues and academies) 52 54 1620 lower leagues, where amateur football meets the professional game, in order to target the professionals of tomorrow. UEFA 12 3 360 Play Fair Code employee Klaus Aumayr: “The feedback we received from play- ers, coaches and club offi cials was extremely positive. Everybody took part in European Rookie Cup (ice hockey) 18 18 450 the training attentively, and there was real interest. The players and coaches then entered into a wide range of discussions and spoke up personally, contri- TOTAL 96 92 2980 buting to the awareness-building further still.” 10| International International | 11 FIX THE FIXING PLAY THE GAME Play Fair Code again expert partner on Erasmus+ project Play Fair Code takes part in Play the Game Conference in Aarhus In addition to its successful Erasmus+ partnership with the European Rookie The ninth Play the Game Conference, which was themed ‘global sport: reform Cup (www.rookiecup.eu), the Play Fair Code was chosen to actively participate or revolution’, was held in the Danish city of Aarhus in October. In addition to in a project financed by the Erasmus+ fund, in an expert partner role. 350 journalists, academics and sports officials, Play Fair Code was invited to the event to give an expert presentation. The ‘Fix the Fixing’ project is organised by a pool of high-level experts from the world of integrity in sport, first and foremost from the project managing institu- Numerous international stakeholders from the world of sport were present tion Aristotle University Thessaloniki, as well as representatives of the University at the Play the Game Conference 2015 to develop and present optimised “Internationally, we are now of Limerick, Queen’s University Belfast, the Institut de Relations Internationales strategies for countering the challenges being faced in sport today, such as et Stratégiques (IRIS), Sorbonne University and the International Council for match-fixing, doping, corruption, racism and exploitation. positioning Play Fair Code Coaching Excellence, as well as the Play Fair Code. as a model for best practice in Europe more and more EUROPEAN successfully.” Severin Moritzer ROOKIE CUP CEO, Play Fair Code Second Consortium Meeting of European Rookie Cup The Second Consortium Meeting of the European Rookie Cup was held in Sarajevo (BIH) from 7 to 9 October 2015. Managed by the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League (EBEL), Play Fair Code is a partner of the Erasmus + funded EU project, the ‘Euro- pean Rookie Cup’. This project revolves around a three-year-long international tournament series with initiatives in areas such as ra- cism and discrimination, anti-doping and betting fraud and match- fixing. As part of the series of events, Play Fair Code, which has partnered the project since its inception, raises awareness of the issue of match-fixing amongst up-and-coming young players from nine different countries.