Combating Corruption in Sport: Legal Aspect

Globalization processes do not ignore any sphere of human life. They did not miss the field of sports. As a result, the problem of corruption, which used to be unequally prevalent in every national jurisdiction, is beginning to threaten the integrity of sport at the global level. Therefore, legal science has a task to determine the legal algorithms for combating sports corruption both within the country and in the international arena. The study aims to establish legal mechanisms to combat corruption in sports at both national and international levels.The object of research is public relations in the field of sports law. The subject of the study is public relations in the field of sports law, which have developed concerning methods and means of combating sports corruption. The research methods were philosophical, general scientific, and special scientific methods such as dialectical, system-structural, comparative-legal, and formal-legal methods. As a result of the work, a description of the state of research of the problem was given, the main approaches to defiling the concept of sports corruption and match-fixing were analyzed, the legal framework (international and national) was characterized, specific examples of corruption offenses and their solution in sports were given.