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The International Betting Integrity Association reported 76 suspicious betting alerts to the relevant authorities during the second quarter of 2026, covering events across nine sports.
Football accounted for the largest share, with 25 alerts, or 33% of the quarterly total. Esports followed with 16 alerts, representing 21%, while basketball generated 10 alerts and tennis recorded nine. The remaining cases involved darts, greyhound racing, cricket, table tennis and volleyball. IBIA said the overall figure could be revised depending on the results of continuing investigations.
The report attributed 33% of the alerts to Europe, 22% to South America, 21% to global events and 15% to Africa. North America and Asia each represented 4%, while Oceania accounted for 1%. The association classified 16 alerts as global because the locations of the relevant events could be transnational and were not assigned to a particular country or continent.
All 16 global alerts involved esports. The other sports produced alerts linked to events in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America.
Football alerts were spread across 16 countries. Nine originated from African events, comprising three in Cameroon, two in Ghana and one each in Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tunisia. Eight were connected to Europe, including five in Kosovo, two in Poland and one in Greece. South America accounted for seven football alerts, with two each in Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay and one in Bolivia. Australia generated the only football alert from Oceania.
Basketball produced 10 alerts, including five connected to Paraguay, three to Colombia, one to Venezuela and one to the Philippines. Tennis alerts involved three events in the United States and one each in Egypt, Ivory Coast, Armenia, Hungary, Switzerland and Ecuador.
Two of the nine tennis cases were submitted to the International Tennis Integrity Agency as intelligence reports because they did not involve events sanctioned by the main tennis tours. However, the report said some of the players involved could still fall within the ITIA’s Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.
Cricket generated three alerts involving India, the United Arab Emirates and Romania. The three table tennis alerts were connected to two events in Ukraine and one in Czechia. IBIA said all three concerned competitions outside the International Table Tennis Federation’s events.
The five darts alerts were linked to the United Kingdom, while Ireland accounted for all four greyhound racing alerts. The single volleyball alert involved Portugal.
The report also examined the development of regulated online sports betting in Canada. Gross gambling revenue data from H2 Gambling Capital showed Ontario’s onshore channelization increasing from 5% in 2022 to 85% in 2023 following the opening of the regulated market. The rate subsequently stabilized above 90%.
Alberta is forecast to follow a comparable pattern, rising from low levels before its market development to approximately 84% by 2030. The rest of Canada is expected to remain at low double-digit levels throughout the period covered by the projections.
IBIA said cooperation between athletes, leagues, integrity specialists and regulated betting operators is intended to support fair and transparent sporting competitions.
The association’s membership includes more than 90 companies operating over 200 betting brands. Its monitoring activities cover more than 1.5 million sporting events each year across over 80 sports, with customer activity analyzed across more than $300 billion in annual global betting turnover.