Catania demoted for match-fixing
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Catania have been demoted to the third tier of the Italian league over a match-fixing scandal in last season’s Serie B, the Italian football federation (FIGC) said yesterday.
The Sicilian side were also deducted 12 points this season and fined 150,000 euros (US$167,400), the FIGC said, while club president Antonio Pulvirenti was banned for five years and fined 300,000 euros.Catania finished 15th in Serie B last season, two points above the relegation places, after a run of five wins in a row in March and April. Meanwhile, Roma yesterday signed Catania’s Slovakian defender Norbert Gyomber on a season-long loan deal which includes an option to make the transfer permanent.
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