Sportradar integrity report flags 34 suspicious esports matches in 2025

Sports activities know-how firm Sportradar has launched its annual integrity report, showcasing its efforts to guard the integrity of sports activities and esports occasions that happened all through 2025.

The Integrity in Motion report reveals that the corporate monitored roughly 100,000 esports matches, flagging 34 matches deemed as ‘suspicious exercise’ that have been detected resulting from irregular betting patterns.

Inside the 2025 report, suspicious exercise inside esports matches is declining. In 2024, Sportradar flagged 41 matches throughout the 12 months in comparison with 34 flagged in 2025, marking a lower of 17%.

Because of 34 out of 100,000 matches elevating suspicion, esports scored a suspicion charge of 0.03%, making the trade one of many lowest out of the sports activities coated by Sportradar. Soccer has the best suspicion charge at 0.31%, whereas basketball has the second highest at 0.29%.

The corporate gathers its information by means of a variety of official information rights partnerships with a number of sporting leagues and federations, in addition to collaborations with a variety of betting and iGaming firms. Lately, it has partnered with the likes of the NBA, NHL, Method One, and FIFA to watch the motion going down throughout the globe.

Sportsradar utilises a devoted detection system that’s triggered by sure actions whereas a sporting or esports occasion is going down. Triggers vary from unusually excessive bets or smaller, extra coordinated wagers positioned throughout a number of bookmakers.

Sportradar isn’t any stranger to the world of esports. Since 2019, Sportradar has partnered with Riot Video games to watch the betting exercise throughout regional and worldwide League of Legends tournaments.

Regardless of the decline in instances, esports noticed 9 sanctions issued in 2025, making it the third most-sanctioned sport inside the report.

In January 2025, Riot Video games appointed Sportradar to analyze suspicious patterns throughout an LCO match between Antic Esports and Fury International. Because of the investigation, Dai Phu ‘Hoopa‘ Mong obtained a 12-month ban from competing.

December noticed VALORANT participant Joseph ‘Ban’ Seung-min issued a 12-month ban after a Sportradar investigation noticed breaches in match-fixing and match manipulation guidelines.