mumbai sportradar integrity services a global supplier of sport integrity solutions and partner to over 100 sports federations and leagues has detected more than 1100 suspicious sports matches since the start of the global pandemic in april 2020 with 655 of those matches detected in the first nine months of 2021 sportradar integrity services is a unit of sportradar nasdaq srad sportradar or the company a leading global sports technology companyin the last 18 months sportradar has utilised its universal fraud detection system ufds to detect suspicious activity in 12 different sports across more than 70 countries worldwide these insights are published as sportradar officially begins delivering its ufds service free of charge effective today to sports federations sports leagues and state authorities around the world in its continued commitment to protecting the integrity of global sport and making the system accessible to allaccording to sportradars ufds figures soccer is the sport at most risk of corruption with more than 500 suspicious matches detected in 2021 to date approximately 40 of the suspicious activities reported within domestic soccer competitions comes from third tier leagues and below including youth level as fixers increase their attention on lowerlevel matchesandreas krannich managing director integrity services at sportradar said as our analysis shows matchfixing is evolving and those behind it are diversifying their approach both in the sports and competitions they target and the way they make approaches to athletes such as the rise in digital approaches to help address this sportradar has made a significant investment to make it possible to offer the ufds for free to global sports organisations and leagues the reason for this is that we are committed to supporting the sustainability of global sports and using data and technology for goodthe rising popularity of esports has made it a target for fixers and has led to a rapid increase in the number of suspicious matches reported over 70 suspicious matches have been detected by the ufds since april last year across five different game titles with more than 40 of those suspicious matches identified since january this yearin addition to the suspicious soccer and esports matches detected this year sportradars ufds has detected suspicious activity in tennis 37 matches basketball 19 table tennis 11 ice hockey 9 cricket 6 while suspicious activity has also been identified in volleyball handball and beach volleyballon a global level the ufds has detected 382 suspicious matches in europe so far this year with latin america recording 115 suspicious matches in the same period thats followed by the asia pacific region with 74 africa with 43 10 in the middle east and 9 in north america since the start of january 2021