IBIA 2025 report shows suspicious betting alerts on the rise

Summary

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) 2025 Sports Betting Integrity Report recorded 300 suspicious betting alerts in 2025 — the highest annual total to date and a sharp rise from 232 alerts in 2024. The increase continues a trend seen since 2021. Football generated the largest share (110 alerts), followed by tennis (74). Table tennis and esports each produced 34 alerts, basketball 27, and the remaining alerts spanned 16 different sports including cricket, baseball, handball, boxing, MMA, snooker, volleyball and horse racing.

Regionally, Europe accounted for 35% of alerts, North America 16%, South America 15%, Asia 13% and Africa 10%; a further 11% were classed as global, largely due to esports events. Country-level concentrations were noted in Brazil, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania for football; tennis alerts were spread across Europe, Asia and Africa. IBIA data helped confirm 54 corrupted matches in 2025, triggering a range of sanctions across sports.

Key Points

IBIA logged 300 suspicious betting alerts in 2025, up from 232 in 2024.
Football led with 110 alerts; tennis had 74; table tennis and esports 34 each; basketball 27.
Alerts covered 16 sports and were most common in Europe (35%).
IBIA data supported confirmation of 54 corrupted matches in 2025, leading to sanctions.
Sanctions included: tennis — 10 players and six umpires; football — two players and one club; esports — one player and one team; plus darts and MMA penalties.
Five-year averages show football and tennis consistently produce the most alerts (football >90, tennis >70 per year).
Africa recorded 117 alerts from 2021–2025; online betting GGR in the region is forecast to grow from $3bn (2021) to $8.4bn (2025) and $16.4bn (2030), raising integrity risks.

Why should I read this?

Quick and blunt — the report flags a rising integrity problem that matters if you work in betting ops, compliance, sports governance or market growth in emerging regions. It’s got the headline stats (300 alerts, 54 confirmed corrupt matches, who got sanctioned) so you can see where the real risks are without wading through the full PDF.

Author take

Punchy and simple: alerts are rising, football and tennis are the hotspots, and growing betting markets (notably Africa) are a new focal point for bad actors. Operators and regulators should sharpen monitoring and controls now — the data shows the problem isn’t stabilising.