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BERLIN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Germany's Football Association (DFB) and Football League (DFL) are investigating new match-fixing allegations after a report in Der Spiegel magazine said two Bundesliga games in 2005 might have been rigged.
The DFB and DFL issued a statement on Saturday saying the two governing bodies had asked a bet monitoring company to assess the German league games.
They said that as yet they were aware of no evidence of match-fixing.
According to Der Spiegel, large sums of money were placed on the match by a Malaysian who has since been convicted of fixing other games.
The two matches named were the first division game between Hanover 96 and Kaiserslautern in November 2005 (5-1 to Hanover) and the second division match between Karlsruhe and Sportfreunde Siegen in August 2005 (2-0 to Karlsruhe).
The report comes three years after the German game was rocked by the news that referee Robert Hoyzer had fixed a series of games as part of a two-million-euro betting scandal.
