Integrity services
Sportradar provides federations and law enforcement agencies with a system for detecting betting-related match fixing.[32] These services are operated by Sportradar's Security Services division.[33]
Initial services included an Early Warning System developed in 2005 following the Hoyzer scandal.[34] The use of this system was one of the measures Bundesliga took for preventing further match-fixing. Later versions included live monitoring, and was relaunched in 2009 as Fraud Detection System (FDS).[33][35]
The development of FDS was done in cooperation with UEFA. Through this partnership, Sportradar monitors suspicious matches in the two top leagues of every UEFA member nation.[35]
FDS has since then expanded its partnerships to other sports and federations, including Asian Football Confederation,[36] CONCACAF,[37] FIBA,[38] ESL[39] and IOC.[40][41] Sportradar has also signed agreements with several law enforcement agencies, including Europol[42] and the Australian Federal Police.[43]
The Fraud Detection System works by comparing odds movement patterns from online bookmakers with the expected odds' movement patterns for a given match. When suspicious matches are found, they are analyzed and then reported to the relevant federation. The federation can then start their own investigations.[44] As of 2016, the Fraud Detection System monitors more than 31,000 European football matches per year.
Since the launch of the Fraud Detection System, Sportradar has been involved in several match fixing cases, such as the Austrian case including Sanel Kuljić in 2013, the Australian case in 2013,, and the Nepal scandal in 2015,.[45] The system has indicated that since 2009, more than 2,000 events have likely been manipulated.[46]
Sportradar launched its Intelligence & Investigation Services (I&I) in 2013.[47] In November 2020, Sportradar announced extending its I&I capabilities to specifically supporting more US clients.[48]
