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Starlizard Integrity Services identifies 159 suspicious football matches played globally in 2024
In a major study, monitoring and analysing 74,386 football matches played in 2024, SIS found that 159 - representing 0.21% of the analysed matches - showed indicators of potential manipulation. This is a drop from the 171 suspicious matches identified in 2023 (0.23% of that year's analysed matches).
The SIS 2024 data revealed that:
Matches analysed by SIS are categorised as "suspicious" when they are found to have suspect betting patterns associated with them that may be indicative of match-fixing. While the level of suspicion will vary across matches depending on the nature and amount of evidence discovered, SIS believes that all matches so identified would warrant further investigation. Furthermore, note that annual figures are likely to change after the publication of a report, as a result of SIS analysing matches retrospectively – for example, in response to new intelligence or in support of subsequent investigations.
The full report can be downloaded at: www.starlizardintegrity.com.
, Head of Starlizard Integrity Services, commented:
Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS) is the specialist integrity division of Starlizard, the London -based sports betting consultancy. Starlizard's detailed understanding of sport and sporting performance, as well as its active involvement in betting markets, affords a unique perspective, enabling the company to know better than anyone else in the world when betting markets and sporting contests look wrong. Starlizard has been providing independent integrity services for sports governing bodies and associations since 2010, and established SIS in 2017 as a dedicated resource to focus entirely on this work. Combining its deep insight into how betting markets should behave with detailed on-pitch performance data analysis and research, SIS is ideally placed to identify suspicious matches and betting patterns. In 2023, SIS launched its award-winning Komodo online anti-match-fixing platform, which is free to use for sports governing bodies and law enforcement agencies, providing them with alerts and suspicious match reports designed for evidential use. For more information, visit www.starlizardintegrity.com.
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