The Hungarian club Debrecen say the goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic was questioned by Uefa in 2010 after he was approached by match-fixers ahead of a Champions League game against Liverpool.
Debrecen said in 2010 that Uefa had questioned Poleksic about approaches before "two international matches". On Tuesday, following a report in a Danish newspaper, Debrecen identified those games as a match away to Liverpool and one at home to Fiorentina.
"The two matches were the away match against Liverpool and at home against Fiorentina," the club said in a statement.
Uefa subsequently took action over the Fiorentina game, banning Poleksic for two years for failing to report a corruption plot.
Uefa declined to discuss how its inquiry into the Liverpool allegations proceeded when asked on Tuesday. Uefa said it would not comment before receiving information from the European police agency, Europol, which announced on Monday that it knew of hundreds of suspicious matches which it did not identify.
The report in the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet on Monday followed widespread speculation after the Europol briefing.
England's FA and Liverpool have said they knew nothing of suspicions surrounding the September 2009 game. Liverpool beat Debrecen 1-0 with a goal from Dirk Kuyt, who pounced after Poleksic parried a shot from Fernando Torres.
Poleksic, a Montenegro international, completed his two-year ban last June and resumed his career with Debrecen.
The Hungarian club stood by their player throughout the case, which Uefa first judged in June 2010 before Poleksic made an unsuccessful appeal at the court of arbitration for sport.
"In course of the proceedings by the [Uefa] Disciplinary Committee, it was established that no bribery, betting fraud or the influencing of the match took place regarding any [Debrecen] matches," the club said then.
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