IBIA confirms 40 suspicious betting alerts in Q1 in quarter-on-quarter downturn
Football remains the most impacted sport while Spain named as country with most alerts during three-month period
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has reported 40 suspicious sports betting alerts across nine sports during Q1.
In its latest integrity update, the body detailed its latest findings for potential match-fixing across global sport.
IBIA found football had the highest number of reported alerts globally, with the 15 alerts representing 38% of the total during Q1.
Tennis commanded 12 alerts during the period (30%) while table tennis had four alerts, or 10% of the total.
Elsewhere, basketball, cricket, esports, volleyball, boxing and snooker all had at least one alert during the first three months of the year.
The 40 alerts represent a 20% decrease on Q4 2022 when the IBIA announced 50 alerts, and a 17% downturn on Q1 2022 when there was 48 alerts.
Geographically, Europe had the most alerts (24) representing 60% of all alerts, while Asia was in second place with six.
Spain had the most alerts out of all of the countries in the IBIA’s findings with eight. Four of those were football matches and the other four were tennis.