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In addition to Brazil’s leadership in the ranking of countries with the most suspicious games, not just football, 2022 set a new record for doubtful matches: 1,212, an increase of 34% compared to 2021.
Sports with more cases of suspicious games. Photo: (Reproduction/Sportradar)
Suspicious game is anyone who exhibits evidence “overwhelming” of match-fixing or with credible indications of manipulation. A sportradar states that there is ahigh limit” for this rating.
Despite this growth, according to the company, 99.5% of sporting events are “free of match-fixing“. No other sport had a rate greater than 1% of questionable occurrences. Controversial matches were identified in 12 sports and 92 countries, from all continents. A sportradar is currently monitoring 850,000 matches in 70 sports around the world.
Brazil at the top of the global ranking
Brazil was the country that most identified suspicious games last year, with 152 episodes. This represents 12% of the global total. Russia comes in second with 92.
Nearly half (47%) of all matches likely to have been match-fixed took place in 10 countries. Football accounted for 71.5% of cases in these countries.
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- Brazil – 152
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- Russia – 92
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- Czech republic – 56
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- Kazakhstan – 43
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- China – 41
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- Greece – 40
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- Argentina – 39
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- Philippines – 37
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- Poland – 36
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- thailand – 35
Football: Sport with more cases.
In 2022, football was once again the sport with the highest number of suspicious games in the world: 775, or 63.9% of the total. These games mostly take place in lower competitions. In the year 2022, 52% of these football episodes took place in each country’s third national division or below, such as regional leagues.
For every 171 monitored football games, one was considered suspicious in 2022. Doubtful match average across all sports rose. Last year it was one in 475, against one in 545 in 2021.
Featured Photo: Brazil took the lead in the world ranking of games suspected of match fixing. Photo:(Reproduction/Getty Images)
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