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Association officials said two regional games, a second-division game and a German Cup contest between Hamburger and Paderborn were part of a bribery scandal that has stunned the nation's soccer fans.

Germany is set to host the World Cup next year.

Referees and players have been implicated in the probe, which began when referee Robert Hoyzer admitted last week that he had taken money to fix results.

The soccer governing body in Germany announced that Hoyzer had confessed to manipulating results in the four games.

Germany's top league, the Bundesliga, made last minute changes in its referee assignments last weekend and 19 homes were raided by police around the country earlier this week in a search for information.

In the German Cup game in question, Paderborn rallied from a two-goal deficit to shock Hamburger. Hoyzer called two questionable penalties in the contest and sent a player off for arguing