Stasi FC.
Not a series, just a one off documentary on Sky. How the East German regime ensured Berlin won the league repeatedly in the 1980s. The main problem, initially, was stopping Dynamo Dresden from being so good. It took a while to stop the best young players going there, imprison the core of the current team, and have a pool of match officials to ensure the correct results happened in key games.
It all just about killed off football in East Germany as a spectator sport. A somewhat more extreme and less subtle manipulation of the game than we see now, but it may well lead to the same outcome ...