Sportradar concluded there was no suspicious betting activity during the recent UEFA European Football Championship. The supplier, through its Integrity Services, supports UEFA’s efforts to operate its betting fraud detection system which analyzes betting behavior and patterns, according to iGaming Business.
Sportradar also offered support through its Anti-Match-Fixing Assessment Group, which gathered various parties from sports and politics to discuss data throughout the tournament to ensure issues got a hearing. The company carried out an analysis of betting turnover on the tournament and found that global wagers on the championship amounted to a record estimated €62 billion (US$73 billion).
On average, each match of the championship brought an estimated betting turnover of €1.2 billion, with the final generating around €4 billion.
In other Euro 2020 news, wagering in Belgium during the month-long European Championship tournament which ended in mid-July increased fourfold according to a report from regulator, Commission des Jeux de Hasard.
The survey indicated Euro 2020 attracted 36,400 new players compared to 8,846 in May. The numbers represent all forms of online gambling not just sports betting. More than 103,500 new accounts were created the week before and during Euro 2020, while the number of daily players averaged about 191,400. In May, daily players averaged 132,800. All totaled, almost 500,000 people tapped into licensed sites during the tournament. The number of daily players topped 282,000 for Belgium’s match with Finland. The average fell to 138,600 the day after the elimination of Belgium.
