AC Vantaan Allianssi was a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, based in the town of Vantaa

Vantaa

Vantaa is a city and municipality in Finland. Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen make up the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.Vantaa, with its population of , is the fourth most populated city of Finland. The biggest airport in Finland, the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, is located there...

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Allianssi have been a club in decline since an 8-0 defeat at fellow Finnish club FC Haka

FC Haka

Haka is a Finnish football club, based in the industry town of Valkeakoski. It is one of the most successful clubs in Finland, with nine Finnish championships and 12 Finnish Cup wins.- History :...

. The match was believed to have been fixed by a Belgian-Chinese betting cartel, which took control of the club in summer 2005. A subsequent police investigation failed to find sufficient evidence of match fixing though. In 2006, a former managing director Olivier Suray

Olivier Suray

Olivier Suray is a retired Belgian professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe. In 2006, he was implicated in a match-fixing scandal involving Chinese business executive Zheyun Ye.-Club career:...

 admitted that the notorious match was fixed. He however accused Chinese owner Zheyun Ye

Zheyun Ye

Ye Zheyun is a Chinese business man who is accused of being involved in a Belgian football corruption -and betting scandal in 2005. Several teams and/or players would have received money from Ye Zheyun to influence match results, so involved gamblers could be certain of a guaranteed gambling...

for fixing.

On April 11, 2006, club chairman Erkki Salo announced that the club would be filing for bankruptcy with immediate effect.