Anti-corruption investigators in Hong Kong have charged five professional footballers with match-fixing, including the rigging of a World Cup qualifier against Thailand last year.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption said in a statement that the five men, were facing a total of seventeen charges.

Most of these, it said, involved the players' co-operation with another footballer, Chan Tsz-kong, to rig matches for sums of money totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Chan Tsz-kong was jailed for twelve months earlier this year on charges of conspiracy to cheat at gambling.