Stellini, 38, served as an assistant to Juventus coach Antonio Conte at Bari in the 2010/11 season, when the events of the Scommessopoli match-fixing scandal took place.

Conte and his assistant coach Angelo Alessio are fighting charges they failed to alert authorities about potential fixing.

But Stellini, a former Bari player who served as a technical assistant during Juve's 2011/12 Serie A-winning campaign, has accepted a ban of two years and six months as part of his plea bargain over charges of sporting fraud.

"The events of the last month have deeply affected me. In a short space of time I went from member of the technical staff of the champions of Italy to a cause of turmoil for those with whom I worked," Stellini wrote in a statement on the Juve website.

"Whatever the outcome of the legal situation I am in, I feel it is only right to show a professional attitude and release this weight from Juventus which fell on to the club’s shoulders due to my time elsewhere in my career.

"I think it is right to dedicate all my time and efforts to clearing my position in these matters, which are exclusively about me and not those I simply shared a locker room with.

"I therefore tend my irrevocable resignation as technical assistant at Juventus."

Also on Monday, the lawyer of Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci said he was confident his client would be cleared of the charges of sporting fraud levelled against him.

Federal prosecutor Stefano Palazzi has requested a three-and-a-half-year ban be imposed on Bonucci for sporting fraud, alleged to have taken place during the centre-back's time at Bari in 2009/10.

Bonucci's lawyer, Giampietro Bianchi, believes his client will be cleared, and met with the Disciplinary Committee of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on Saturday to complain about inconsistencies and contradictions in the testimony of witnesses called by the prosecution.

"The prosecutor offered us the opportunity to move the charge from sporting fraud to simply failing to alert authorities to a potential fix, but only if there were new facts that he was going to admit to," Bianchi said.

"Bonucci has not done anything, so what was he supposed to admit? It is true there would be some risks of civil court action too, but in any case he would never have 'confessed' to anything untrue. It is a moral decision.

"He would have evaluated the possibility out of respect for Juve's interest, but not if it meant admitting to something he never actually did."