Football, tennis, table tennis and esports dominate integrity alerts as global monitoring highlights persistent risks in regulated betting markets
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has reported a total of 300 suspicious betting alerts during 2025, spanning 16 different sports, underscoring the continued integrity challenges facing the global sports betting industry. The findings were published in IBIA’s latest Sports Betting Integrity Report, which compiles data from its Global Monitoring & Alert Platform and reflects betting activity across regulated markets worldwide.
Each alert represents betting patterns deemed abnormal enough to warrant escalation to regulators, sports governing bodies, and, where appropriate, law-enforcement agencies. While an alert does not automatically confirm match-fixing or corruption, IBIA stresses that such cases require further investigation to determine whether sporting integrity has been compromised.
Football remained the most affected sport, accounting for 110 alerts, or roughly 37% of the total. Given football’s global popularity, extensive betting markets, and presence across professional and semi-professional levels, IBIA has long identified the sport as particularly vulnerable to integrity threats. Tennis followed with 74 alerts (25%), reflecting ongoing concerns around lower-tier competitions where player earnings can be limited and oversight less robust.
Notably, table tennis and esports each recorded 34 alerts, representing 11% apiece. These sports continue to attract scrutiny due to their high volume of betting events and, in some cases, limited governance structures compared with traditional sports. Basketball accounted for 27 alerts (9%), while the remaining cases were distributed across eleven other sports, including cricket, volleyball, handball, ice hockey, rugby, badminton, snooker, futsal and floorball.
Geographically, the alerts were linked to competitions across multiple continents, highlighting the truly global nature of betting integrity risks. Europe generated the largest share, contributing approximately 35% of all alerts, but significant activity was also recorded in the Americas, Asia, Africa and other regions. IBIA noted that the spread of alerts reflects both the expansion of regulated betting markets and improved detection capabilities.
The alerts were generated via IBIA’s Global Monitoring & Alert Platform, which analyses betting data from more than 1.5 million sporting events each year, covering both pre-match and in-play markets. IBIA members share anonymised data with the platform, enabling the identification of irregular betting activity that might otherwise go unnoticed.
IBIA emphasised that fluctuations in annual alert volumes can be influenced by factors such as increased market coverage, enhanced analytical tools, and changes in bettor behaviour, rather than indicating a direct rise in corruption. Nonetheless, the association reiterated the importance of collaboration between betting operators, regulators, sports bodies and law enforcement to protect the integrity of sport.
The 2025 figures reinforce IBIA’s view that ongoing vigilance, data sharing and coordinated enforcement remain essential as the regulated sports betting industry continues to grow globally.
