FIFA is investigating a mid-week international between Bulgaria and Estonia in which all four goals were scored from the penalty spot, football's world governing body said Friday.
"We can confirm that FIFA is looking into this case," a spokesman told German Press Agency dpa.
Newspapers of Germany's WAZ group report in editions to appear Saturday that the match in the Turkish resort of Antalya Wednesday, which ended 2-2, was under suspicion of match-fixing.
Borislav Mikhailov, president of the Bulgarian football association, was quoted as saying: "Four penalties in a match is very unusual."
Estonian football association spokesman Mihkel Uiboleht said it had been informed by the Latvian football association before the match that there could be an attempt to rig the result.
The match, and a game directly afterwards between Bolivia and Latvia, had been organized by a sports rights agency in Thailand. The second game ended in a 2-1 victory for Latvia, with all the goals also scored from the penalty spot.
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