Match-fixing and betting corruption scandals were a constant menace to the gambling and sports industries last year although Sportradar, a data distributor and integrity monitor, declared on Tuesday that policing efforts “continued progress toward containment in 2025.”
Integrity in Action 2025: Global Analysis & Trends, an annual report published by the Swiss-based company, found that in more than one million monitored events in 70 sports worldwide, 1,116 suspicious matches were identified, representing a 1% decrease from 2024.
Football accounted for 618 of the 1,116 suspicious matches detected, a 15% decrease, while cricket had 59, a mighty increase of 269%.
“With more than 99.5% of sporting events worldwide monitored free from suspicion, the findings highlight the continued effectiveness of coordinated integrity measures across the international sports ecosystem,” the report stated.
“The relative stabilisation of suspicious match numbers in 2025 is encouraging, yet it reinforces the importance of continued vigilance,” Andreas Krannich, executive vice president, Integrity Services at Sportradar said in a release. “Match-fixing remains an evolving threat, and sustained investment in technology, intelligence, education, and collaboration is essential to staying ahead of those seeking to corrupt sport.”
Sportradar provides integrity monitoring for events such as the FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Women’s EURO, FIFA World Cup, and the Olympic Winter Games. It has partnerships with MLB, the NBA and the NCAA, which all are in the midst of ongoing sports corruption scandals.
Sportadar uses its artificial intelligence-enhanced Universal Fraud Detection System to glean real-time analysis of “extensive betting datasets, uncovering irregular patterns often undetectable through traditional methods,” according to a company release. The amount of suspicious cases flagged using AI increased by 56% in 2025.
Courtesy: The Daily Sun
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