Suspicious
Football friendlies increase from 38 to 62 in a yearTable
Tennis, esports and volleyball being targeted by fixersSport is facing a “massive spread in the
cancer of match-fixing” during the Covid-19 era, investigators have said, with fixers diversifying into new areas and targeting especially vulnerable teams, players and officials.
Experts at Sportradar, seen by
FIFA as the global leader on detecting match manipulation, tracked more than 600,000 matches across 26 sports in 2020 and saw a steep rise in suspicious betting activity in football friendlies – despite fewer matches being played during the pandemic – as well as fixing in several other sports including table tennis, esports and volleyball.