IBIA reports 67 suspicious betting alerts in Q3 2026

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) recorded 67 suspicious betting alerts in the third quarter of 2026, the association said in its latest Integrity Report. The alerts were passed to the relevant authorities and covered eight sports, with most of the activity reported in Europe.

Table tennis accounted for 20 alerts, or 30% of the total, followed by football with 15 (22%), tennis with 11 (16%), cricket with nine (13%) and esports with eight (12%). Greyhound racing recorded two alerts, while basketball and badminton had one each. IBIA said all 20 table tennis alerts concerned events outside competitions organised by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). In tennis, three of the 11 alerts were sent to the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) as intelligence because they concerned events not recognised by the main professional circuits.

By region, Europe accounted for 64% of alerts, followed by Africa with 12%, South America with 9%, Asia with 3% and North America with 2%. A further 10% concerned events classified as global, for which no single country could be identified.

At market level, table tennis alerts were concentrated in Poland with 10, the Czech Republic with seven and Ukraine with three. In cricket, eight of the nine cases concerned Belgium and one was recorded in the United Kingdom. Football alerts were spread across continents: South America had six, of which three were in Ecuador, two in Brazil and one in Argentina, while Africa had four, Europe two, North America two and Asia one.

IBIA said a suspicious activity alert is not in itself proof of manipulation of a sporting event, and that the data may be updated as investigations develop.

The report also examined Brazil, where, according to the association, a ban on sports betting was introduced on 25 September 2026, halting a regulated market that had opened on 1 January 2025. IBIA said the Brazilian system had reached a score of 77 out of 100 in its assessment of the regulatory framework, based on 27 criteria covering regulation, taxation, product offering, advertising and sports integrity. The market had more than 80 licensed operators, about 25 million bettors and an annualised value of R$40bn, and around 70% of gross gaming product was channelled through the regulated circuit, according to estimates in the document. Authorities had also blocked more than 13,000 illegal sites, alongside action on payments and advertising.

On alerts, IBIA said 25 were recorded in 2025, the first year of the regulated market, against an annual average of 11 in the period 2021-2024. The association interpreted the increase as an indicator of a greater capacity to identify and report anomalous activity rather than as evidence of more manipulation. The rules introduced in 2025 required all federally licensed operators to monitor bets, report suspicious activity to the authorities and join an independent sports integrity body.

According to the association, the interruption of the authorised market risks undermining the information-gathering and sharing system. Estimates by H2 Gambling Capital cited in the report put at about R$25bn the stakes previously handled by regulated operators that could move to offshore platforms after the ban. IBIA said the risk was not only a shift of demand to unauthorised operators but also the loss of information useful to investigations, since without the obligations on licensees authorities could find it harder to access data on bets and customer accounts. IBIA called for the ban to be reconsidered through the normal legislative process, with any decision accompanied by a public impact assessment, and proposed preserving the integrity monitoring system and focusing enforcement on offshore operators.

IBIA said it represents more than 90 companies and over 200 betting brands. Its monitoring network covers more than 1.5 million sporting events a year across more than 80 disciplines and analyses customer activity linked to a global betting volume of more than $300bn annually.