Sportradar Integrity Services reports it has detected more than 1,100 suspicious sports matches since the start of the global pandemic in April 2020; 655 of those matches were detected since the beginning of 2021.
After utilising its bet monitoring system (the Universal Fraud Detection System – UFDS) for the last 18 months to detect suspicious activity in 12 different sports across over 70 countries, Sportradar concluded that football is the sport at most risk of betting-related corruption (with more than 500 matches detected in 2021 to date).
Approximately 40% of the suspicious activities within domestic football competition comes from third-tier leagues and below, including youth level, because fixers increase their attention on lower-level matches.
