(School of Law,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: Football gambling is an act seriously hazardous to the society, especially, it will trigger a series of football related illegal and criminal acts. Currently, the football gambling act of football players, referees, football officers and football association administrators etc cannot be deemed as a criminal act in terms of the criminal law, therefore, judi-cial anti-gambling is limited. The serious hazardousness of the football gambling of such parties has decided the neces-sity of its criminalization; from the perspective of the perfection of the criminal law itself, it is considered necessary to include football gambling in the range of criminal law regulations. The criminalization of the gambling of football players etc can not only reinforce the legal system, but also play an active role in preventing football gambling and football gambling related illegal and criminal acts and even the gambling act of other sports undertakings. Key words: sport law;football gambling;criminalization |