A Melbourne soccer club at the centre of a match-fixing scandal has been fined $10,000 and stripped of competition points.
The Southern Stars made international headlines after the club's senior coach and four English players were charged with criminal offences over six Victorian Premier League games in 2013.
Football Federation Victoria on Thursday fined the Stars $10,000 for misconduct, finding that the club's poor administration and governance had allowed the match fixing to occur.
The club's senior side was docked eight competition points for the 2014 season, with all committee members ordered to take management and governance courses.
FFV chief executive Mitchell Murphy said an investigation had identified a serious lack of governance in the club's committee.
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"Although no criminal charges have been laid against any of the committee members at Southern Stars, its poor administration provided an environment and the opportunity for the match fixing to take place," he said.
The men's senior team's results from the 2013 season - during which they won only one of 21 games - were declared invalid last year.
Segaran "Gerry" Subramaniam was able to rig six games during 2013, acting as a local ringleader for an international group.
The 46-year-old Malaysian national was on Thursday jailed for a year after pleading guilty to conduct that would corrupt a betting outcome.
English players Reiss Noel and Joe Woolley were last year convicted and fined for helping to fix four games.
They have been issued with lifetime, worldwide bans from the sport.
Fellow English players David Obaze and Nicholas McKoy, and their coach Zia Younan, of Clayton, have also been charged with match-fixing offences, and will next appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in June.
