Integrity partner of Riot Games Sportradar flags 34 suspicious esports matches in 2025

In its annual report, called “Integrity in Action”, Sportradar outlines its yearly assessment of efforts to protect sporting competitions and monitor match-fixing. Overall, the Swiss company, which works closely with UEFA, the NBA, the ATP, and almost all major sports organizers worldwide, revealed that it monitored nearly 100,000 esports matches in 2025 alone, flagging 34 as suspicious, representing 0.03%.

Partner of Riot Games on integrity matters since July 2019, Sportradar has spent years overseeing the broader competitive ecosystem of the North American publisher. With the release of the 2025 report, it appears that suspicions are declining, dropping from 41 flagged matches in 2024 to 34 in 2025, a decrease of approximately 17%.

These 34 suspicious matches were identified out of an estimated 100,000 monitored fixtures, resulting in a suspicion rate of 0.03%, one of the lowest among the sports covered by Sportradar, well behind football at 0.31% and basketball at 0.29%. A suspicious match is one flagged by Sportradar's detection system due to abnormal betting patterns, such as unusually large or coordinated wagers placed across multiple accounts or bookmakers, that suggest the outcome may have been manipulated in advance.

Despite this relative decline in detected cases, esports recorded a more severe disciplinary outcome, with nine sanctions issued in 2025, making it the third most sanctioned sport in the report, behind football and tennis. In 2025, Sportradar was directly mandated by Riot Games in several match-fixing cases across its competitive ecosystem.

The first case involved League of Legends and the Oceanic circuit. On July 19, 2024, Sportradar flagged suspicious betting patterns to Riot Games surrounding an LCO match between Antic Esports and Fury Global. Riot immediately appointed Sportradar to conduct a deeper investigation, and interviews carried out during the process uncovered credible attempts to incite match-fixing dating back to Split 1. The ruling was issued on January 20, 2025, with player Dai Phu “Hoopa” Mong receiving a twelve-month suspension.

A second case, on LoL, started on October 3, 2024, when Riot Games received allegations that a player known as “Trevor” had entered into a financial agreement to ensure his team lost a North American Challengers League match 0-2. The sanction, handed down on June 27, 2025, resulted in a thirty-month ban.

A similar pattern happens on VALORANT, in VCT Pacific with Seungmin “ban” Oh after screenshots referencing discussions of match manipulation surfaced, Riot appointed Sportradar on August 27, 2025. Interviews concluded on November 18, before a twelve-month suspension was made public on December 18.

In an article published in July 2025, Norwegian outlet Josimar reported that Sportradar supplies live sports data that ultimately powers large illegal or loosely regulated betting markets, including operators such as 1xBet. This is despite the company’s public claims that it does not sell data to unlicensed bookmakers, even as its own financial filings acknowledge significant revenues from jurisdictions with limited or no licensing frameworks.