Two of soccer's organizing bodies want to restrict in-game betting on matches because they fear fixing scams are too easy to organize.
FIFA and UEFA said Friday they are working on proposals to the betting industry as evidence builds that international and club matches are increasingly being corrupted by people bribing players and referees.
FIFA legal director Marco Villiger said it had become ''very easy'' to manipulate matches and profit from in-game wagers.
''Live bets are a problem.We have to think about whether we should continue to offer such bets,'' Villiger told a FIFA seminar on betting and match-fixing.
UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said the internal talks are at an early stage.
''It's quite a new discussion. This is something we will certainly address in the next discussion we'll have with betting operators,'' Infantino said.
The plan was revealed after a match-fixing scandal last month left four national teams angry and embarrassed.
Latvia, Bolivia, Estonia and Bulgaria were unwittingly lured to Turkey by an agency that organized the friendlies and provided match officials who have since been suspended by their federations to profit from betting coups.
Team officials asked FIFA, the world soccer governing body, and UEFA, which oversees European soccer, to investigate after all seven goals in their doubleheader at Antalya were scored on penalty kicks.
Infantino said what happened in Turkey ''smells bad from miles and miles away.''
The UEFA official added soccer must change its tactics for protecting matches. Early warning systems which monitored suspicious online betting patterns were designed to identify when the match result was fixed, Infantino said.
Corruption now involved in-game bets on aspects such as ''the next corner, the next throw-in, that the next goal is from a penalty.''
''It's something we didn't really focus on too much, since we were always focusing on the result,'' Infantino said. ''The criminal organizations are also getting more, let's say, ready to tackle the measures we have introduced.''
After hearing FIFA's view, European betting operators said they were ready to discuss which bets were acceptable.
''We should find a proper way of cooperating,'' said Freidrich Stickler, president of the European Lotteries umbrella group.
The FIFA and UEFA proposal could be resisted by some regulated operators who used broadband technology to offer new and faster wagers, and whose business might be restricted.
''Most match-fixing scandals relate to prematch betting, not live betting,'' said Khalid Ali of the European Sports Security Association. ''If you do ban live betting all you are doing is creating a black market for these kinds of bets.''
Villiger said FIFA was ''not (in) a fight against betting, it's a fight against illegal bets.''
He added that the six match officials in Turkey will have their disciplinary cases heard by FIFA next week.
Hungary's football federation has said it suspended Kolos Lengyel, Krisztian Selmeczi and Janos Csak for handling the Estonia-Bulgaria game without permission.
Three Bosnian officials, Sinisa Zrnic, Kenan Bajramovic and Riza Ridzozovic, also were suspended by their federation.
In ongoing match-fixing scandals, six men are on trial in Germany, accused of manipulating matches across Europe. The court was told the gang bribed the referee of a 2010 World Cup qualifier between Liechtenstein and Finland.
A Singapore businessmen is being held by police in Finland on suspicion of bribing players to fix league matches. He has been connected to a friendly played last September between Bahrain and a fake national team from Togo.
