Sportradar: Esports is one of the least-matchfixed sports of 2025

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In 2025, Sportradar, a company that monitors sports for integrity issues, identified 34 potentially fixed matches in esports. This relatively low number suggests esports had fewer integrity concerns compared to other sports that year.

Sportradar, a sports analytics company based in Switzerland, recently released its 2025 report on sports integrity. The report, called “Integrity in Action,” highlights which sports had the most and fewest questionable matches, along with key trends in the area.

Sportradar has worked with Riot Games since 2019 to help ensure fair play in esports. Last year, they investigated several match-fixing cases, including the suspension of VALORANT player Seungmin “ban” Oh in December. They also looked into match-fixing claims in the North American VALORANT scene.

Esports had 34 suspicious matches in 2025, says Sportradar

Out of the 12 sports tracked by Sportradar, esports had the 6th highest number of games flagged as potentially suspicious. However, considering Sportradar reviewed over 101,898 games in total, the percentage of suspicious esports matches remains quite low.

Only 0.03% of esports matches (about 1 in 2,997) raised red flags, making it one of the sports with the fewest suspicious results in our report. This is a small decrease from 2024, when we identified 32 questionable matches. The number of flagged matches is generally falling, as we saw 46 in 2023.

Sportradar’s esports numbers only include core titles like Dota 2, League of Legends, VALORANT, and CS2. Games based on traditional sports, such as e-soccer and e-basketball, weren’t included in their calculations.

Although most sporting events are legitimate, match-fixing worldwide is evolving – becoming less controlled by single groups and more complicated. Stronger rules and awareness campaigns are helping to reduce fixing in well-established sports, but new instances are appearing in developing regions. To keep making progress, everyone involved – international organizations, sports bodies, and participants – needs to work together, stay alert, and find new ways to combat this issue.

Integrity In Action: 2025 Global Analysis & Trends, Sportradar

According to Sportradar, soccer is still the sport most often targeted for manipulation. They found that 0.31% of soccer matches were suspicious – roughly 1 in every 326 games. Basketball is a close second, with 0.29% of games – or about 1 in 344 – flagged as suspicious.

Sportradar assisted with a total of 125 sports-related sanctions, but only 9 of those involved esports. Besides the previously mentioned ban, these sanctions included cases involving Dai Phu “Hoopa” Mong (LCO), Trevor “Trevor” Roy (NACL), and the Frank Esports Academy team during the 2024 Asia Star Challenger Invitational.

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2026-02-25 17:41