Jakub Čavoj

He is an integrity officer of Slovak Football Association, dealing with anti-match-fixing and integrity since 2016. He graduated in Academy of Police forces in Bratislava with master thesis named Corruption in sport. In 2020 he graduated in UEFA Certificate in Football Management and also was part of UEFA Football Integrity Programme (UEFA FIP).

During last 6 years he personally made education seminars for around 9 000 players from U15 to top professionals in our country. Also in 2022 he prepared, organized and delivered in person prevention integrity sessions for almost 3000 FA members.

In 2020-2021 he was cooperating with CSCF Foundation for Sport Integrity on Erasmus + programmes focusing mainly on education and prevention of match-fixing for grassroots and women’s players. He is also representative and speaker of Slovakia in the fight against sport corruption on Council of Europe, OSN, UEFA and FIFA Conferences.

He is regular speaker about integrity and fight against sport corruption on conferences such as Sport and Law, Sport between paragraphs, Slovak Compliance Summit and he was participant of FIFA Compliance Summit 2018 and 2020.

In 2016 and 2017 with his colleagues did research in UEFA Research Grant with name Effectiveness of European countries laws and regulations dealing with match-fixing – where he did fact finding missions in 6 countries, survey and composed final report.

Mr. Čavoj, has also lectured at various universities Universities – University of Lausanne, Comenius university in Bratislava or Academy of Police forces in Bratislava.