The 2025 Match-Fixing Landscape: What You Need to Know

Match-fixers are quickly adapting to new gaps in sports governance, tell integrity reports from Sportradar, Starlizard and the IBIA.

A quick glance at the major integrity reports for 2024 integrity might not spot anything new to worry about. But a more sustained read shows how match-fixers are finding new gaps in sports governance. Old tricks are being applied to new leagues with great success.

The Sports and Crime Briefing broke down the takeaways from three major integrity reports, Sportradar, the IBIA, and Starlizard. We explored how these trends manifested across the world, and whether each trend represents an evolution in fixing tactics or a persistent weakness that sport governance has yet to resolve.