The annual integrity report from Sportrader has been released, with 1,329 suspicious matches detected across 2023 \u2013 with 880 coming from football and a rise seen in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n Titled the \u2018<\/span>Betting Corruption and Match-fixing in 2023<\/span><\/a>\u2019 report, the findings look at suspicious betting on a global scale from approximately 850,000 events and matches across 70 sports. <\/span>Europe was found to have the highest number of suspicious matches (with an increase to 667 from 630 in 2022) but Asia saw a jump, going from 240 the year before to 302 in 2023. This was the most significant jump worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n As it has been in the past, <\/span>football<\/span><\/a> was the most affected sport with 880 suspicious matches, while basketball remained in second place at 205 matches. This was then followed by table tennis, <\/span>tennis<\/span><\/a>, and esports.<\/span><\/p>\n A majority of the issues came from men\u2019s sporting events, with just 34 activities happening during women\u2019s games.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking in the Sportrader <\/span>press release <\/span><\/a>via their website, Andreas Krannich, EVP, Integrity, Rights Protection, and Regulatory Services, said: \u201cContinued investment in the development of technology is key to detecting otherwise hard-to-find occurrences of match-fixing\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn combination with access to account-level data, collaboration across the industry, and human experts, we have a suite of powerful tools to help prevent and detect risks to sports integrity.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFurther advancements in the fight against match-fixing will be possible as the AI models continue to learn and we will keep honing our expertise to protect sport from manipulation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Artificial Intelligence helped with the mass amount of data, detecting almost three-quarters of all occurrences. Analysis by the \u2018integrity experts\u2019 also took place alongside the AI.<\/span><\/p>\n The company worked alongside 220 global partners including sports organizations, state authorities, national platforms, and law enforcement agencies to tackle match-fixing.<\/span><\/p>\n The data from Sportrader in 2023 contributed to a total of 147 sporting and criminal sanctions, spanning 10 sports in 23 countries across 23 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n Featured image: Via Ideogram<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nSporting and criminal sanctions<\/span><\/h2>\n
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