SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean prosecutors indicted 46 players and 11 others on Thursday on charges of fixing soccer matches in the professional K-League.

“We have confirmed that match-fixing is widespread in our soccer community,” Kwak Gyu-hong, a senior prosecutor in the southern city of Changwon, said during a news conference.

Since May, prosecutors have been investigating the country’s biggest match-fixing scandal. They had previously indicted nine K-League players on similar charges.

The players indicted Thursday belong to six of the league’s 16 teams.

Prosecutors said the others indicted included gamblers, organized-crime gang members and former soccer players they hired to solicit other players to join in the game-fixing schemes.