January 16 – Italy’s Serie B and the Estonian Football Association (EJL) have moved to improve their betting fraud protection, signing up Sportradar to deliver packages of education and match monitoring.
Lega Serie B has signed an agreement with Sportradar Security Services to deliver education workshops and e-learning packages to all 22 club teams for this season and the next two. The learning modules will be provided to the senior team and youth teams of each club.
Workshops will be conducted on why match-fixing is a growing problem, how fixers make their approaches and what the consequences of fixing are, using real-life case studies.
Lega Serie B President, Andrea Abodi (pictured left) said: “The most important asset of football are its supporters. Deceiving football supporters means deceiving the whole football world. That is the reason why knowledge and training about match fixing is essential for Serie B’s credibility, and is fundamental to ensuring our stadiums are full.”
Managing Director Integrity and Strategy at Sportradar Andreas Krannich (pictured right), said: “Our Fraud Detection System already monitors every match in all five professional leagues in Italy. No other country has that level of coverage. Today successfully closes the circle. This exclusive agreement means that our unparalleled integrity education services will reach all 102 professional clubs in Italy.”
The EJL has signed a three and a half year deal that will see Sportradar collect and distribute the data from a whole range of Estonian football matches (via its Sportradar Rights Holder Solutions business) and monitor the global betting patterns on those same matches (under its Sportradar Security Services business).
Sportradar will be the “Official Sports Data Partner of the Estonian Football Association” and will also use its Fraud Detection System to monitor all of the home matches of all the Estonian national teams (including men’s, women’s and age group levels); the first, second and third tier of the men’s national divisions; the top women’s division; as well as the Estonian Cup and Supercup.
EJL CEO Tonu Sirel said: “We have worked with Sportradar since 2012 … We are excited to see Sportradar promote our nation’s football worldwide and we used this opportunity to also extend our integrity relationship.”
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