The Football Kenya Federation, FKF, have confirmed the relegation of a Kenyan club, Muhoroni Youth.
This decision comes after FIFA found the second-tier team guilty of match manipulation.
It is the latest scandal to hit football in the East African country, which has long been plagued by match-fixing.
OnFriday, FIFA announced that it had found Muhoroni Youth “guilty of activities related to the manipulation of football matches and competitions”;.
The world football governing body have now expelled the club’s senior team from the FKF’s second-tier National Super League.
They have been ordered to play in the third-tier Division One League next season.
The FKF, in response, said it “fully supports FIFA’s decision”;.
FKF also reiterated “its zero-tolerance stance on match-fixing and all forms of manipulation that threaten the integrity of the game”;.
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