( CNN ) -- Italian football champions Juventus plan to appeal against the 10-month ban that coach Antonio Conte has received after failing to report match-fixing when he managed Serie B side Siena . Conte and his Juve assistant Angelo Alessio , who was also at Siena , were suspended by the Italian Football Federation ( FIGC ) following a police investigation over allegations of `` sporting fraud and fraudulent association '' in relation to a league fixture against Novara in April 2011 . While earlier charges of direct involvement in match-fixing have been dropped , the FIGC maintain Conte was aware of the corruption taking place during his tenure at Siena . Last season Juventus won the Serie A title for the first time since being stripped of two scudettos and relegated in 2006 after another match-fixing scandal . `` The club underlines its full support for Antonio Conte and Angelo Alessio , in the hope that their innocence will emerge during the appeals process , '' said a Juventus statement . The gambling game : Soccer 's battle with betting . Conte submitted a plea bargain earlier in August , in which he would have had to pay a â‚¬200,000 ( $ 245,000 ) fine and serve a three-month suspension , but the FICG rejected a more lenient sanction . The former Juventus captain , 43 , led his side to back into the Champions League after managing them through an entire season without suffering a defeat , but came under official investigation in June after his first season at the helm of the Serie A giants . `` He is not being accused of match-fixing himself , and with appeal the sentence may be reduced to five months . It 's enormous scandal , and it goes way beyond Conte , '' John Foot , author of `` Calcio : A History of Italian Football , '' told CNN . In total , 13 clubs and 44 members of Italian League football are alleged to have been involved in the betting scandal investigation including Siena , which accepted a six-point deduction last week as part of a plea bargain . Serie B sides Lecce and Grosseto have been excluded from Italy 's second division for the 2012-13 season , and their former presidents Giovanni Semeraro and Piero Camilli face five-year suspensions . Six other players -- Leonardo Bonucci , Simone Pepe , Marco di Vaio , Salvatore Masiello , Daniele Padelli and Giuseppe Vives -- have been acquitted of the charges against them . South East Asia betting . In May , Italian police descended on the national team 's Euro 2012 training base to speak to defender Domenico Criscito as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match fixing . The 25-year-old , formerly of Genoa but now at Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg , was questioned by officials probing gambling markets linked to fixing results of matches in the Italian top flight . A total of 19 people were arrested in the ongoing investigation by magistrates in Cremona , 11 of them players in Italy 's top division . `` The top people are still there and no-one has resigned , '' said Foot , Professor of Modern Italian History at University College London . `` The authorities have come close to uncovering the networks a few times in recent years , but they 've really got it now . They have found a network that goes to Singapore and China -- it 's an international network . '' Football 's world governing body FIFA is waiting for the FIGC to report on the scandal . `` FIFA is currently waiting to receive all relevant documents from the Italian FA ( FIGC ) pertaining to the case and will then evaluate the next steps , '' it said . `` This includes the potential extension of sanctions to have worldwide effect , in accordance with the FIFA Disciplinary Code . '' Long-running saga . Since February , FIFA has extended 39 domestic sanctions in Turkey , Finland , Korean Republic and Croatia in an attempt to preserve the integrity of the sport . It said that South East Asia is `` widely considered as a center of legal and illegal betting . '' FIFA said it has invested â‚¬20 million ( $ 24.5 million ) as part of a global initiative to clamp down on corruption within football . The scheme targets illegal and irregular betting and match-fixing , which is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year in Asia alone . How can football tackle match fixing ? Friday 's announcement of FIGC 's punishments are the latest in a long-running saga that has cast a shadow over Italian football . Seventeen people were arrested in a similar swoop last year , the most high-profile of which was Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni . He was subsequently banned from the game for three years .
Juventus coach Antonio Conte banned from football for 10 months . Conte 's assistant Angelo Alessio also banned by Italian Federation . Serie A champions Juventus to launch an appeal . Six other Italian players acquitted of charges made against them .