Turkey's football federation has cleared all 16 Turkish teams, including Fenerbahce, of involvement in an alleged match-fixing scandal - but it also has banned two players for up to three years and imposed disciplinary measures on eight players or club officials.
The announcement came a week after the federation said an independent football ethics committee looking into the match-fixing allegations concluded that there was no evidence that alleged attempts to fix games had altered the course of the matches.
A total of 93 officials, players and coaches, including the president of reigning champion Fenerbahce, are on trial, accused of helping fix matches last season.
Ibrahim Akin of Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyesi has been banned for three years for allegedly fixing the result of a game when his team lost to Fenerbahce 2-0 on May 1, 2011.
Serdar Kulbilge of Genclerbirligi was slapped with a two-year ban for allegedly attempting to fix the result of a game that Fenerbahce won 4-2.
Fenerbahce was barred from this season's Champions League as a result of the investigation.
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