New leagues to have access to Red Button app

• The Red Button app has been developed by FIFPRO to combat match-fixing
• Angola, DR Congo, Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Portugal are among the player unions set to join the 35 that already provide access to the app
• Red Button allows professional footballers to report match-fixing approaches anonymously

Since its launch in 2020, FIFPRO’s Red Button app has become a vital tool enabling professional footballers to actively combat match-fixing.

Match-fixing poses a threat to the integrity of professional football and, consequently, to its future. FIFPRO offers the Red Button app so that professional footballers can anonymously report any attempt or proposal to manipulate a match. 

National player unions are responsible for enabling footballers to download the app. Only professional footballers are authorised to download and use it. All reports are anonymous, protecting the identity of the player submitting them.

Currently, 35 national unions offer their players access to the Red Button app, with several more set to join soon, including the unions of Angola, DR Congo, Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Portugal.

Following reports of potential match-fixing risks during the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Australia, FIFPRO Asia/Oceania made the Red Button available to players taking part in the tournament.

Would you like to join Red Button?

Professional footballers who wish to download the Red Button app onto their mobile phones should contact their national players’ union.

It is important to note that, under FIFA regulations, footballers must immediately report any attempt to manipulate a match or competition. Failure to do so may result in sanctions, including fines or a ban of up to two years from football.

FIFA has recognised the FIFPRO Red Button app as an official reporting mechanism. This means players fulfil their reporting obligation when they use the app to report any attempt at match-fixing.

How the Red Button helped goalkeeper Bryan Cordero

Bryan Cordero, a 31-year-old Costa Rican goalkeeper, was pressured in February 2025 by his then club, Asociacion Deportiva Municipal Turrialba, to fix a match in the Costa Rican league.

Cordero and his team-mates were told to deliberately lose a match by a specific score determined by the club president, Jose Pereira Calderon, along with two Mexican investors, Ernesto de la Torre and Enrique Valencia, who also served as coaches.

Cordero, as team captain, and together with another experienced teammate, led the Turrialba squad in refusing to participate in the match-fixing attempt. After the match, on the advice of ASOJUPRO, Costa Rica’s national players’ union, both players reported the situation through the Red Button app.

The report triggered the established protocol and FIFPRO referred the case to FIFA’s Integrity Department, which investigated the incident through its representative in Costa Rica.

In July 2025, the Disciplinary Committee of the Costa Rican Football Federation imposed a five-year ban on Pereira Calderon, De la Torre and Valencia from any activity related to federated football.

In the final days of February this year, the Federation’s Court of Appeal upheld the sanctions against those involved.

Below you can read the testimony of Bryan Cordero, who decided to speak publicly about his experience.