a year full of challenges

Members and Partners:
A YEAR FULL OF CHALLENGES
2013
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FOREWORD FROM THE MINISTER
The fascination we feel for competitive sport functions at many
different levels, and the industry
has vast potential for exercising a
President Leo Windtner (Austrian Football Association), President Peter Schröcksnadel (Austrian Ski Federation), Minister
of Sport Gerald Klug, Dietmar Hoscher (Casinos Austria Group) and President Günter Kaltenbrunner (Play Fair Code)
the essence of sport is not invulnerable. Regrettably, recent years have
seen the industry being exposed to
enormous dangers, the true extent
danger – which has the power to
shake sport to its very foundations –
is the global problem of the doping
of competitors. Huge efforts have
been made internationally to bring
this problem under control in recent
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continues.
Another, equally important, challenge at both national and internatiocombated.
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FOREWORD FROM THE PRESIDENT
recipes have we put in place to
combat the problem?
The direction Austria has chosen
broke at the end of 2013, and after
a round table meeting with the Austo discuss the issue of the “Fight
set up an interministerial working
group as Austrian Minister of Sport.
Experts are currently looking into
where there may be a need to
tighten up legislative or organizati-
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The Play Fair Code (“Association for
playing an absolutely essential role
Ministry of Sport, the Football Association and the Football League, the
Play Fair Code has been active since
2012. It has been faced with huge
challenges from the very beginning.
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„If we watch a match tomorrow and
know how it’s going to end, then
football is dead!“
(Michel Platini, UEFA President)
tailed information about the complex scope of activities of the Play
Fair Code. I would like to express my
thanks to all those involved in the
Play Fair Code for the work they are
doing, and to President Kaltenbrunner in particular, who, as a former
professional footballer, knows and
loves sport.
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Sport is all about teamwork, and
it is only by working together that
we can maintain and preserve the
structures that are so crucial if sport
is to survive. I would like to wish
the Play Fair Code all the best as
it works to do exactly that in the
coming year.
With sporting regards,
Minister of Sport
atest single threat in global sport
today.
The public in Austria have become far more aware of the issue of
cially since details of the case of
ex-professional footballer Dominic
Taboga emerged in November of last
year.
We in Austrian sport do not live on
an ‘island of the blessed’, where
such things are not an issue.
So what strategies, measures and
established in mid-2012, when
the Association for Protecting the
Integrity in Sport was brought to life
upon the initiative of the Ministry of
Sport, the Austrian Football Associations under the brand of the ‘Play
Fair Code’.
I would like to offer my heartfelt
thanks to all those involved in the
Play Fair Code, whose dedication
has made it possible for us to move
in this direction and helped contribute to its early development.
The Play Fair Code depends upon
awareness-building. We go directly
to athletes, coaches, those in charge
als – to those involved in sport at
every level, in other words.
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the Austrian Football League have
been provided with training on this
issue. The Austrian Ski Federation
and the Federal Sports Association,
the Austrian Olympic Committee, the
Association, Admiral Sportwetten
and Raiffeisen have all been won
over as partners in our network.
It is also important to us that we
should be able to anchor this longterm awareness-building amongst
professional athletes in sports other
than football, provide training for the
next generation of young athletes,
expand existing partnerships and
continue to network on an international level.
President, Play Fair Code
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FOUNDATION & MILESTONES
Founding Members (ordinary members)
Credibility is the soul of sport, the
basis of the excitement, emotion,
passion and fascinating stories that
sport tells week in, week out. As a
fan of Austrian football, I regularly
experience these stories up close.
New ordinary member
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Management at Casinos Austria,
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is not merely a catchphrase for us,
but the commercial foundation of
all our products and lived corporate
culture.
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The newly-taken path of the Play
Fair Code must be held to consistently. After the events surrounding
the ‘Taboga Case’, it is now time for
lasting, active cooperation.
Only by working together with all
participants will we succeed in
anchoring the need for conscious-
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the heads and hearts of all actors.
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SPIRIT
CREDIBILITY
AWARENESS
RESPONSIBILITY
We associate it with the passion
of athletes for their sport, the
suspense at who will come out
on top, the will to win, fairness
out on the pitch and on the
touchline, and of course a professional and honest attitude
towards sport.
No matter who is going to watch
sports, the crucial factor is
that you don‘t know how it‘s
going to end. Neither the players, the coaches, the fans, nor
those watching on TV know.
This involves raising awareness
amongst all participants in
xing now poses a threat to the
very existence of sport.
the sport itself, the teams involved, the club, the owner as an
employer and the fans.
The truth is decided out on
the pitch, and there alone!
If you know how a match is
going to end, or are even suspicious that all is not quite right
in this area, then the interest
in and credibility of the sport is
lost.
represents a serious threat to
sport.
trivial offense, but fraud, and
has legal consequences for
those involved.
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Prevention refers to the idea
of making athletes, coaches
and those responsible at the
relevant sporting associations
viding
.
Above and beyond this, it is
about highlighting the backgrounds and risks, and offering
protection mechanisms.
We accept this challenge with
the
athletes and other stakeholders
in sport who have information
activities.
PREVENTION
MONITORING
Monitoring is the observation
and analysis of match results
in order to recognize suspicious
movements in betting odds.
Monitoring serves to create
transparency, and provides
Monitoring is a reality: in professional European football, the
top two leagues in every UEFA
member country are already
now being monitored, as are
the European club competitions
and matches between national
sides.
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TRAINING & EDUCATION
20 Clubs tipp3 Bundesliga &
„Heute für Morgen“ Erste Liga
500 Players
150 Staff
We have accompanied the sporting associations, athletes themselves, club-representatives and stakeholders
in the industry with a specially-designed training programme. Here’s a brief selection of our training activities:
Preliminary Play Fair Code training at SK Rapid Wien
„This initiative is important and right. We are all in the same boat, and have to have an interest in ensuring that
sporting performance on the pitch, remains the sole factor determining the result today and in the future,“
Didi Kühbauer, Head-Coach of FC Admira Mödling at the time (currently with WAC), after the training session.
Training at First Vienna FC
Young Athletes
450 Junior Players
150 Staff
„This training is very interesting for all of us, and most importantly of all, it’s prepared in a highly professional
way!“, Thomas König, ORF presenter, after ORF sports editorial department undergoes Play Fair Code training.
explain to the young players at our youth academy exactly what is involved,“ Robert Ibertsberger, Ath-
„These initial two events at the Salzburg and Carinthia Regional Associations also gave us a chance to
Günter Kaltenbrunner, Play Fair Code President, after the launch of the information offensive at the
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Sport-Stakeholders
500 Club-Representatives,
Managers and Journalists
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PROJECTS
Austrian Football League clubs and referees lined
up clearly
In March 2013, together with the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), the Ministry of the
and the
, FIFA and Interpol organised a
two-day workshop for around 40 national and international representatives from the areas of football, sports
betting and executives in Laxenburg.
liga powered by T-Mobile on 14-15 December 2013,
the Football League, together with its associations
and referees, took
against
Code initiative.
The message the players and referees were giving, which
was clear:
. In 14 different workshop
The Play Fair Code launched a campaign of awareness-raising at the nine Regional Football Associations
at the beginning of 2014 with an
.
This series of events is primarily aimed at club representatives and trainers in the amateur sector, and
serves to
to the issue
ated download section of the Play Fair Code website
!
A series of training sessions was launched as an
at the
. The
to which the Play Fair Code
has dedicated itself is an important step for the future
of sport, and nowhere more so than amongst young
people.
and
targeted with the training content.
at individual associations.
extensively.
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and offers guidance on how to best
handle suspicious and potentially
dangerous situations in relation to
the
which is obligated to treat all recei-
In close cooperation with the informant and only with the informant’s
explicit consent the Ombudsman
associations Play Fair Code offers
in line with the relevant
legal provisions.
Play Fair Code.
contacted by
Play Fair Code acts as an
for sporting associations. In cooperation with the
. Also
enquiries are handeled by the OmThe consultation is
.
CONTACT & IMPRINT
Play Fair Code
President: Günter Kaltenbrunner
Managing Director: Severin Moritzer
Seidlgasse 22/2, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Attorney at Law
Sports rights expert
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M +43 660 47 56 851
Mail [email protected]
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