Sportradar has reported a 1% year-on-year (YoY) decrease in the number of global match-fixing incidents, with the supplier pointing to the effectiveness of coordinated integrity measures as a core reason.
The supplier’s annual Integrity in Action report identified 1,116 suspicious matches from 12 sports in 94 countries. The group said more than 99.5% of sporting events worldwide were free from suspicion.
It meant the overall match-fixing rate improved to one in 709 matches, compared to one in 608 in 2024.
Once again, Europe led the way with the highest number of suspicious matches (373), although this was down by 66 games compared to 2024.
There was also a drop in suspicious matches in South America, with 183 reported compared to 247 the previous year.
However, there were “modest increases” in Asia, Africa and North and Central America.
The sport impacted the most by match-fixing was football, with New York-listed Sportradar noting there were 618 suspicious matches detected, albeit down from 730 reported in 2024.
Basketball was next with 233, followed by tennis (78), table tennis (65) and cricket (59).
There were 1,081 suspicious matches detected in men’s sports compared to 35 in women’s.
Looking at football, Sportradar said 57% of all alerts came from the top two tiers of domestic leagues, while live betting accounted for 77% of all suspicious matches.
Meanwhile, cricket hit all-time highs for alerts, with the 59 alerts more than triple that of any previous year.
Sportradar said 91% of cricket cases were linked to spot-fixing, with the vast majority coming from Asia.
“This distribution underscores how match-fixing activity is increasingly dispersed across multiple sports rather than concentrated within a single discipline,” the supplier noted.
Last year saw the continued use of Sportradar’s AI-powered Universal Fraud Detection System, with a 56% YoY increase in the number of suspicious matches detected using the technology.
Sportradar also supported 125 sporting sanctions across seven sports, up from last year’s figure of 104, bringing the all-time total to over 1,000.
Notable cases included five basketball players receiving sanctions for match-fixing offences dating back to the 2022-23 British Basketball League season, with four of the players receiving lifetime bans.
While in July of last year, Montenegro football club FK Arsenal Tivat were handed a seven-year ban from all UEFA competitions for match-fixing offences that occurred during the 2023-24 UEFA Europa Conference League competition.
Andreas Krannich, Sportradar executive vice-president of integrity services, said: “The relative stabilisation of suspicious match numbers in 2025 is encouraging, yet it reinforces the importance of continued vigilance.
“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.”
Last month, Sportradar confirmed it was “scanning” for more affiliate M&A deals after acquiring XLMedia’s US-facing affiliate assets for an initial $20m in November 2024.
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New York-listed supplier reports overall match-fixing rate stands at one in 709 matches, although cricket alerts hit record levels last year
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