Recently, the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported that 236 suspicious bets were made in the year 2021. According to the data revealed, IBIA alerted the responsible entities during this period of 2021, where 69 alerts were issued in the fourth quarter of the year alone. Although it seems like a large number of suspicious bets, the year 2021 showed a decrease of 13% compared to the year 2020, when this number had been 270 alerts.
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Therefore, the information revealed by IBIA shows that the year 2021 had a considerable average compared to other previous years. In addition, the year 2021 ended up encompassing 13 sports and about 49 countries that had suspected irregular betting. Football and tennis continued to top the list of suspicious activity regarding sports betting, just as the Europe region dominated the list with the highest number of suspicious bets alerted.
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To comment on the data for the year 2021, the CEO of the International Betting Integrity Association, Khalid Ali, pointed out that 2021 was a challenging year for the sports betting industry, as it had to deal with the specter of Covid-19. In his speech, Ali said that the year 2021 showed a favorable drop in terms of irregular betting.
“Another challenging year for the sector has passed with the spectre of COVID and its impact on sporting events declining, and hopefully a potential endgame in sight."
In addition, Khalid took the opportunity to analyze that the growth of sporting events and the establishment of integrity protocols were essential to maintain the integrity of the sport and to prevent irregular betting in the sector. In his speech, the CEO of IBIA reported that the "Challenges however persist, notably with the growth of private sports events and establishing integrity protocols to the levels seen in traditional sports bodies. The association is working with a number of stakeholders in this area to improve integrity provisions".
Therefore, Ali also took the opportunity to comment that the dangers of "corruption in betting remain and, as the Optimum Betting Market report published last year highlighted, this equates to about $25 million a year in lost revenue for the betting industry. globally regulated".
The IBIA CEO concluded by saying: "It is therefore welcome that the requirement for operators to be part of an integrity monitoring system have gathered pace across the US, and have been endorsed in Sweden, to add to existing requirements in the Netherlands, Germany, and the Czech Republic. The approach in Ontario is particularly worthy of attention and is a best practice model. The association looks forward to working with a wider range of operators on integrity as a result."
About the alerts reported by IBIA
80 suspicious betting alerts were made in tennis, showing a drop of 18% compared to 2020.
66 suspicious betting alerts were made in the football modality, showing an increase of 8% compared to 2020.
27 suspicious betting slips were made on Russian sporting events.
11 sporting or criminal sanctions were made during the year 2021 with IBIA data.
10 suspicious betting alerts were made in North America, showing a 54% drop from the year 2020.
Between the years 2017 and 2021, the entity recorded 1,222 alerts of suspicious betting in 19 sports and 101 countries encompassed.
So the 2021 list looks like this in regards to irregular sports betting alerts:
Tennis - 80
Football - 80
Ping Pong - 40
eSports - 30
Basketball - 7
Volleyball - 6
Ice hockey - 1
Beach volleyball - 1
Cricket - 1
Futsal - 1
Squash - 1
Handball - 1
Horse racing - 1
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