On 27 January 2005 the referee Robert Hoyzer confessed that he had manipulated football matches for betting. On 29 April 2005 the German Football Association banned him for life. Hoyzer also named other referees. One was Felix Zwayer, who had helped bring the case to light. The association’s sports court found that Zwayer had accepted 300 euros from Hoyzer, and it banned him for six months. The verdict became known only years later. Zwayer has denied taking the money. He went on to referee at the top level, including a semifinal of the 2024 European Championship. The former referee Manuel Gräfe once said that anyone who had taken money and kept quiet about Hoyzer’s manipulation for half a year sollte keinen Profifußball pfeifen, should not referee professional football.