Peloponnesian club Asteras Tripolis will be reinstated into the Greek Super League after the Hellenic Football Federation’s Appeals Committee reversed the decision that had found them guilty of bribery.
The original decision, reached by the Super League’s Disciplinary Committee, had sent Asteras to the second division.
However last week, an EPO committee, which had also reversed the decision to relegate Olympiakos Volou and Kavala until the Professional Sports Commission declined to give the two clubs a licence to compete, acquitted Asteras president Giorgos Borovilos, who had originally received a three-year ban for allegedly giving Achilleas Beos, then president of Olympiakos Volou, 500,000 euros.
According to Kathimerini, the verdict suggests that recorded conversations between Kavala owner Makis Psomiadis and others, saying that Asteras had bribed Olympiakos Volou in order to win a game between the two sides in March, do not constitute sufficient evidence to prove the Tripoli side’s guilt.
As a result, Asteras can now return to action in the Super League.