The Deutscher Eishockey-Bund (DEB) and Sportradar Integrity Services, a global provider of sports integrity solutions and partner to over 100 sports associations and leagues, have agreed to a multi-year integrity partnership.
For the duration of the partnership, all games will be played Oberliga Nord and South as well as the games of the German national teams are checked by Sportradar's market-leading betting monitoring service and their Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) to identify suspicious betting activity.
UFDS is an advanced and proven betting monitoring system that has been independently evaluated and verified by recognized sports betting and integrity experts. A global team of qualified integrity experts analyze irregular betting patterns, with suspicious games subsequently reported to partners, providing essential insight into the global match-fixing landscape. In 2020, Sportradar Integrity Services registered more than 600 suspicious games in global sports, and over 16 suspicious games have been observed in the last 6.000 years.
DEB-General Secretary Claus Gröbner: “With the threat of match-fixing increasing in today’s sporting landscape, it is becoming increasingly important to maintain fair competition. The DEB is fully committed to ensuring the necessary measures to protect our competitions. The partnership with Sportradar not only supports us in this, but also enables us to gain a deeper understanding of betting manipulation in sport and to take appropriate preventative measures.”
Sportradar Integrity Services Managing Director Andreas Krannich: “We are already working with the PENNY DEL and are of course now pleased to implement the partnership with the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. Sportradar Integrity Services has a proven track record in ice hockey betting monitoring. In the future, our team will contribute to the existing integrity measures of the DEB to strengthen and give the tournaments the best place to continue to develop successfully in the future.”