Starlizard Integrity Services detects suspicious betting patterns at 84 football matches

The integrity division of sports betting consultancy Starlizard, Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS), has revealed it has detected suspicious activity at 84 football matches

The unity segmentation of sports betting consultancy Starlizard, Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS), has revealed it has detected suspicious activity at 84 football game matches.

The matches were held inward a range of leagues across the humans between 1 January and 30 June, with 31% of them taking position inwards the top side conference of apiece match's particular proposition country.

SIS analysed 18,845 matches during this period, with the flagged matches representing 0.45% of this sample size.

Data from SIS pronounced 84 matches as suspicious, which is defined as a mate that has surmise betting patterns associated with it, a possible denotation of match-fixing.

Despite variations in levels of suspicion for the matches in question, SIS maintains that all flagged matches stock-purchase warrant farther investigation.

Starlizard Head Affy Sheikh said: "These statistics bring home the bacon an brainstorm into the extent of suspected match-fixing inwards football – and underline the want for greater industriousness in combating the ever-present threat of match use inwards the sport. The range of suspected tally manipulations inwards football game in the for the first time half of this year is uniform with that of the deuce previous years.

“It is also deeply worrying to ensure top-level domesticated competitions featuring so conspicuously amongst these suspicious matches, which perhaps dispels the common misconception that match manipulation tends to occur only if inward the bring down leagues.”

The data revealed that the matches were held inwards 30 different countries, with 49% of them in the European alliance realm and 25% in the Asian confederacy region.

International matches made upwards 14%, with 6% of them existence non-competitive favorable matches.

In March, Starlizard renewed its partnership with the Moldovan Football Federation, inwards an effort to armed combat the threat of match-fixing inwards Moldova.