MUMBAI: Sportradar Integrity Services, a unit of Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD) and a global supplier of sports integrity solutions, on Thursday issued its second annual report, 'Betting Corruption and Match-fixing in 2022', revealing that the company identified 1,212 suspicious matches in total in 2022, within 12 sports and in 92 countries from the 850,000 matches the company now monitors across 70+ sports globally.
While reflecting an increase of 34% from 2021, the total number of suspicious matches indicates that match-fixing occurs at a low percentage within global sport. Overall, the data confirms that 99.5% of sporting events are free from match-fixing, with no single sport having a suspicious match ratio greater than 1%.