Switzerland-based Sportradar Group AG says global match-fixing activity “showed continued progress toward containment” last year, “with enhanced monitoring, enforcement, and education initiatives driving a reduction” in matches that were considered “suspicious”.
That is according to the firm’s “Integrity in Action 2025: Global Analysis & Trends” report, published on Tuesday.
Sportradar is a specialist in collecting and analysing sports data for bookmakers, national and international sports federations, and media companies.
In 2025, the company said it monitored more than 1 million events across 70 sports worldwide, “identifying 1,116 suspicious matches, representing a 1-percent decrease from 2024”.
The company added in a press release accompanying the report: “With more than 99.5 percent of sporting events worldwide monitored,” being “free from suspicion, the findings highlight the continued effectiveness of coordinated integrity measures across the international sports ecosystem.”
As per the 2025 report, Europe accounted for the “highest number of suspicious matches” last year, though the region maintained a downward trajectory “with 66 fewer cases than in 2024”.
South America also reported a “notable decline, with 64 fewer suspicious matches detected year-on-year,” Sportradar observed.
Asia – with 351 suspicious matches in 2025 – “saw a modest increase, narrowing the gap with Europe, while Africa and North and Central America also registered moderate rises,” according to the report.
Soccer continued to be the sport “most impacted by match-fixing last year, with 618 suspicious matches detected,” noted the company. “Basketball followed with 233 cases, while tennis (78), table tennis (65), and cricket (59) recorded notable increases,” it said.
“This distribution underscores how match-fixing activity is increasingly dispersed across multiple sports rather than concentrated within a single discipline,” the firm added.
Tuesday’s update cited Andreas Krannich, executive vice president for integrity services at Sportradar, as saying: “The relative stabilisation of suspicious match numbers in 2025 is encouraging, yet it reinforces the importance of continued vigilance.”
He added: “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 also said its Universal Fraud Detection System, supported by artificial intelligence (AI), played a key role in identifying suspicious cases in 2025, and “enabled the real-time analysis of extensive betting datasets, uncovering irregular patterns often undetectable through traditional methods”.
“As a result, the number of suspicious matches flagged through AI analysis increased significantly year-on-year (+56 percent), reinforcing the system’s expanding role in identifying emerging and evolving manipulation techniques,” the company added.
