FIFA President Sepp Blatter pledged tighter monitoring of referees' assignments as investigations continue into two suspect exhibition games played in Turkey.
"There will be new regulations for these international matches which are mostly ... organized only for betting reasons," Blatter said. "Football is a victim of our popularity but we have to protect the game."
Organizers of exhibition matches — for national or club teams — will need to submit referees' names for approval two months before kick off, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said.
FIFA and its confederations will have veto power "if we have any reason to think that the referee is not the right referee to be on such a game," Valcke said.
FIFA is investigating a Feb. 9 doubleheader arranged by a Thai-based company in which all seven goals were scored from penalty kicks awarded by low-ranked Hungarian match officials. Latvia beat Bolivia 2-1 and Estonia tied 2-2 with Bulgaria.
National team officials had alerted FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations two weeks earlier after the company refused to provide referees' details. The teams were advised to play in a near-empty Antalya stadium with meager television coverage.
Hungary's soccer federation has since suspended the match officials.
Valcke said FIFA also investigated a game between Bahrain and a fake Togo team last September and was aware of other possible fixes involving European referees sent to officiate in South America.
FIFA will propose new statutes governing international matches at national and club level.
Changes to FIFA's official rule book can be agreed at its annual congress, scheduled for June 1 in Zurich.
FIFA also is backing International Olympic Committee efforts to coordinate world sports' crackdown on match-fixing and corrupt betting. Blatter said FIFA legal director Marco Villiger has joined an IOC working group that will submit proposals this year.
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