According to the Annual Report: Betting Corruption and Match-fixing in 2022 by Sportradar Integrity Services, there were 240 suspicious matches in Asia in 2022, up from 161 a year earlier and moving it ahead of the 225 instances detected in South America. Europe continues to see the highest number of suspicious matches with 630. China had the most suspicious matches of any Asian nation with 41, followed by the Philippines with 37 and Thailand with 35.
According to the report, there were a total of 1,212 suspicious matches in total in 2022 from the 850,000 matches Sportradar now monitors, up 34% year-on-year and comprising 12 sports in 92 countries.
The number of criminal and sporting sanctions from those detected matches also increased from 72 to 169, up 135% from 2021.
However, Sportradar noted that match-fixing still occurs at a low percentage within global sport with the data showing that 99.5% of sporting events are free from match-fixing and that no single sport has a suspicious match ratio greater than 1%.
