List of sporting scandals

American football scandals

• Minnesota Vikings boat party scandal – a sex party involving several members of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League
• National Football League player conduct controversy – various off the field incidents involving American football athletes from the NFL, including Adam "Pacman" Jones, Terry "Tank" Johnson, Chris Henry, Ben Roethlisberger, Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, who earned suspensions as a result.
• 2007 New England Patriots videotaping controversy – the New England Patriots were disciplined for videotaping the opposing team's coach's signals. Coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 and the New England Patriots were fined $250,000 and lost their 2008 1st round draft pick.
• New Orleans Saints bounty scandal – the NFL discovered that the New Orleans Saints had operated a secret slush fund from 2009 to 2011 that paid "bounties" to defensive players for big plays during games, most controversially for injuring opponents. The scheme was allegedly organized by a number of players plus defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, with the acquiescence of head coach Sean Payton. Shortly after the investigation came to light, Williams was accused of running similar schemes while he was defensive coordinator of the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans and Washington Redskins, as well as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. The league suspended Williams indefinitely and Payton for one year and suspended the Saints' general manager and another assistant for parts of the 2012 season. Jonathan Vilma, a Saints player who had a major role in the scheme and reportedly offered a $10,000 bounty on Brett Favre, was suspended for the entire season and three other players were suspended for parts of the season. However, in September 2012, an arbitrator overturned the suspensions of the players involved in the affair. Williams' suspension ultimately lasted one year.
• Deflategate – during the AFC Championship Game, 11 of the 12 footballs under the Patriots' control during the first half were found to be inflated below the level mandated by the rulebook. The case was then closed because of the referees' failure to check the balls prior to the game. Tom Brady was suspended by the NFL for the first 4 games of the 2016 season.

  Association football scandals

• 1915 British football match-fixing scandal
• 1964 British football match-fixing scandal
• Bundesliga scandal
• 1971 Bundesliga scandal
• 1980 Italian football scandal – a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving several major teams.
• 1986 Totonero
• 1988 Mexico national football team scandal
• 1989 Maracanazo of the Chilean team
• 1993 French football bribery scandal – a match fixing scandal involving a 1992–93 French Division 1 match between Olympique de Marseille and Valenciennes, in which Valenciennes players were bribed by Olympique de Marseille president Bernard Tapie, through Marseille midfielder Jean-Jacques Eydelie. It is believed that Eydelie offered three Valenciennes players ₣250,000 to "take the foot off of the gas" in a May 20 match between the sides, so that the team would be fresh to play in the Champions League final soon after. Marseille were subsequently stripped off the 1992–93 French Division 1 title, relegated to Division 2 and handed bans from all 1993 UEFA competitions. The French Football Federation also suspended Eydelie, Robert and Burruchaga, whilst Tapie was replaced as club president by Bernard Moreau. Tapie received a prison sentence of over two years, of which he served six months and received a ₣20,000 fine, whilst Eydelie, Robert, Burruchaga and Marseille general manager Jean-Pierre Bernès were all given prison sentences and fined. Eydelie's prison sentence was a suspended sentence.
• 1994 Malaysian football scandal
• 1999 Chinese football match-fixing scandal
• 2001 Chinese football match-fixing scandal
• 2003–2009 Chinese football match-fixing scandals
• Apito Dourado – a match fixing scandal in Portuguese football involving FC Porto, Boavista, and União de Leiria.
• Bundesliga scandal – a match fixing scandal in German football centering on disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer.
• Caso Genoa
• Brazilian football match-fixing scandal – a match fixing scandal involving referees in Brazil.
• 2006 Calciopoli scandal – a match fixing scandal in Italian football involving several major teams, including three of the country's four qualifiers to the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League.
• In the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup 2006, the Armenian champion Pyunik refused to play with an Azerbaijani team, PFC Neftchi. The team Pyunik defeated the Ukrainian team Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 in the quarter-final, when it already knew that in case of victory they would have to play against Neftchi. After the match, they told the referee they would not play against an Azerbaijani team and later that evening left Moscow on an airplane. The Russian Football Union gave Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3–0 so they could play in the half-final instead of Pyunik, but Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "e would really want to play in the half-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way then sport". Eventually, because no one could play against Neftchi in the half-final, Neftchi were right away promoted to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club Kaunas 4–2.
• 2009 European football match-fixing scandal
• 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal – in July 2011, as part of a major match-fixing investigation by authorities in Turkey, nearly 60 people suspected to be involved with fixing games were detained by Istanbul Police Department Organized Crime Control Bureau and then arrested by the court. In June 2014, retrial process has started for all the convicted people.
• 2011–12 Italian football match-fixing scandal
• 2013 Lebanese match fixing scandal – in 2013, Lebanese footballers, Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud El Ali, were banned for life by the Lebanese Football Association for participating in match-fixing scandals. 22 players were investigated for this.
• 2013 English football match-fixing scandal
• 2015 Greek football scandal – it emerged on 6 April 2015, when prosecutor Aristidis Korreas' 173-page work was revealed. Telephone tapping operated by the National Intelligence Service of Greece has played a significant role in the case. According to the prosecutor's conclusion, Olympiakos. owner Evangelos Marinakis along with Greek Football Federation members Theodoros Kouridis, Aristidis Stathopoulos and Georgios Sarris were suspected of directing a criminal organization since 2011. The goal behind their scheme was to "absolutely control Greek football's fate by the methods of blackmailing and fraud". Referees, judges, football directors and chairmen were also involved in the scandal, but all defendants deny charges. Olympiakos were the champions of the Greek Super League at the time.
• 2015 FIFA corruption case
• 2015 Italian football match-fixing scandal
• 2016 United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal
• 2017 Rangers Tax Fraud Case. The Supreme court ruled that money paid to players, managers and directors between 2001 and 2010 was in the form of tax free loans. This totalled £47m
• 2018 Football Leaks - Der Spiegel and the European Investigative Collaborations network of journalists, begun publishing various articles relateding to various dirty deals relating to various dodgy deals behind Arab oil owned football clubs Manchester City, PSG, and Russian owned Monaco. Super League plans by current European powerhouses. Questionable dealings of football agents, Doping involving Russian and Spanish players.
• 2023 Brazilian football match-fixing scandal
• Age fraud in association football

  Baseball scandals

• Black Sox Scandal
• Pete Rose gambling on baseball – Dowd Report
• Houston Astros sign stealing scandal
• For baseball doping scandals, see the [|"Doping scandals" section].

  Basketball scandals

• 2007 NBA betting scandal

  Boxing scandals

• List of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing
• In 1967, then-undefeated World Champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title, and denied a boxing license for the next 3 years over his refusal to be drafted into the U.S. army.
• In 1983, boxer Luis Resto was caught tampering with his gloves by removing padding and hardening his hand wraps with plaster.
• In 2001, International Boxing Federation founder Robert W. "Bobby" Lee Sr. was convicted of money laundering and tax evasion, following a three-year long investigation of racketeering and bribery at the organization.
• Tampered handwraps controversy of 2009 resulting in the suspension of Antonio Margarito
• Suspension of boxing judges at the 2016 Summer Olympics - see Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics#Judging

  College sporting scandals

• 1951 college basketball point-shaving scandal – in 1951, more than 30 players at seven schools were implicated in a point shaving scheme that also had connections to organized crime. The scandal was most strongly linked to the City College of New York because several central figures had played on the school's 1949–50 team that won that season's NCAA tournament and NIT, but it has also been strongly linked to six other universities, including Long Island University, Bradley University, and the University of Kentucky as well.
• Boston College basketball point shaving scandal in 1978–79
• Southern Methodist University football scandal – in 1986, it was revealed that Southern Methodist University boosters gave football players thousands of dollars from a "slush fund" with the knowledge of university administrators. Along with a string of prior NCAA violations, this led the NCAA to level the "death penalty" on the school's football team.
• University of Michigan basketball scandal – four players, most notably Chris Webber, were paid by a booster to launder money from his gambling operations. In some cases, the payments extended to their high school days.
• University of Minnesota basketball scandal – the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported the day before the 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament that an academic counseling staffer at the university publicly acknowledged doing coursework for many basketball players.
• Baylor University basketball scandal – player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson. Later, coach Dave Bliss instructed his players to lie to NCAA investigators that Dennehy dealt drugs. In the wake of these events, numerous violations of NCAA rules were discovered.
• Duke lacrosse case – a stripper hired by members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team for an informal team party in 2006 falsely accused three players of rape.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal – over ten football players received improper benefits and committed academic fraud by turning in coursework prepared by tutors.
• 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal – Yahoo! Sports broke a story in which former Miami booster Nevin Shapiro, currently imprisoned for running a Ponzi scheme, indicated he had provided massive amounts of improper benefits to Miami players and coaches, mostly in football, but also in men's basketball.
• Penn State child sex abuse scandal – in November 2011, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested on 40 counts of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period including incidents in Penn State's football facilities. In June 2012, Sandusky was convicted on 45 charges related to the scandal.
• University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal – in a follow-up to the UNC football scandal, new accusations of academic fraud arose in relation to the university's African and Afro-American Studies department and men's basketball program, men's football team, women's soccer and other sports as well. The Wainstein Report, an independent report commissioned by UNC, revealed academic fraud that occurred over at least 18 years involving thousands of students and student athletes. Allegedly, thousands of student athletes were directed by the UNC administration to take "sham" classes in order to maintain eligibility. UNC avoided major NCAA penalties, mainly because said sham classes had been offered to the entire student body.
• Western Kentucky University swim team hazing scandal – In January 2015, a former member of Western Kentucky University's swim team alleged several incidents of hazing while part of the team. Further investigations revealed hazing incidents dating back to at least 2012, prompting the university to suspend the entire swimming and diving program for five years. As of 2024, the program has not been revived.
• 2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal – In 2015, Yahoo! Sports reported that a self-described former madam alleged that she had been paid several thousand dollars from 2010 to 2014 by men's basketball staffer Andre McGee for strip shows and sex parties for players and prospective recruits. The NCAA announced the results of its investigation in June 2017, announcing major sanctions that included a 10-year show-cause penalty for McGee and the potential loss of the team's 2013 national title. An appeal by Louisville failed, and in February 2018 the Cardinals became the first Division I basketball program to be stripped of a national championship.
• Baylor University sexual assault scandal – in 2016, Baylor and its football program were rocked by the revelation that university officials failed to act on numerous alleged sexual and non-sexual assaults by football team members between 2012 and 2016, with one player convicted of felony sexual assault. A later lawsuit filed by a group of victims alleged that 31 football players committed 52 rapes between 2011 and 2014. In the wake of the scandal, head football coach Art Briles was fired, athletic director Ian McCaw resigned, and university president Ken Starr was first demoted and then resigned.
• 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal – An ongoing FBI investigation into corruption in NCAA men's basketball that has so far resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals, including college assistant coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State, and USC plus high-ranking executives of sports apparel giant Adidas. Other programs initially implicated in the scandal included Louisville, Miami, and South Carolina. Louisville placed head coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave, and soon fired both. Further revelations in February 2018 saw more than a dozen additional programs possibly implicated.