Montenegrin Football Association

Members of football fan group Vojvode at a match in Niksic. Photo: Vojvode football fan group

On May 29, media published video footage in which a group of Sutjeska club fans called "Vojvode" (Dukes) chanted "Knife, wire, Podgorica", referring to a nationalist slogan that celebrates the 1995 mass killings by Serbs of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, Bosnia.

Buducnost Podgorica fans, known as the Barbarians, at their home stadium. Photo: FK Buducnost Podgorica.

Genci Nimanbegu, an ethnic Albanian MP, urged the authorities to punish Buducnost Podgorica in a bid to halt the increase of hate speech in public.

Police in Montenegro arrested five players on Wednesday for suspected match-fixing as part of an ongoing investigation into abuses in premier league football matches.

The arrests mark the first time that police in the country have amassed enough evidence to detain and charge those believed to be involved in match fixing.