The number of “contractors” in sports increased sharply in the world: how many suspicious rates were found

In the first quarter of 2025, 63 cases of suspicious bets were registered in the bicycle industry. This is 11% more than an overview of the first quarter of 2024 (57 cases).

This was reported in the International Association of integrity in Ibia, which controls the annual rate of more than $ 300 billion, covering more than 80 participants with more than 140 brands of sports bets around the world. All cases of detected cases were notified by the relevant authorities.

In the reporting period, incidents of suspicious bets concerned six sports in 23 countries on five continents. The main data for the first quarter of 2025 include:

• Football and tennis accounted for 64% of all notifications (40 cases), which is 14% more than in the previous quarter (35 cases).
• More than half of all cases (32) occurred in the events in Europe and North America, which is 29% less than in the fourth quarter of 2024 (45 cases).
• The number of suspicious table tennis rates decreased from 21 in the fourth quarter of 2024 to 9 in the first quarter of 2025, which amounted to 53%.

“The first quarter of 2025 was relatively stable compared to the previous quarter and the same period last year. Football and tennis remain the most common sports, although the total number of cases in these sports decreased by 14% compared to the 4th quarter of 2024. In 2024, he did not continue and did not return to the previous level.

As previously reported OBOZ.UA, in 2024, 159 contract football matches were found around the world. This is 13 less than it was a year earlier. In this case, suspicious games are concentrated mainly in South America.