FIFA extends Sportradar integrity partnership to 2031

FIFA has agreed a five-year extension of its long-standing integrity partnership with Sportradar, renewing the relationship through 2031 and adding new intelligence, investigation and risk-assessment support to its existing monitoring package.The deal keeps Sportradar as FIFA’s primary integrity monitoring provider and is framed by both parties as a step-up in football’s protection against betting-related integrity threats across a broad and increasingly complex global landscape.Under the renewed agreement, Sportradar will continue to deliver AI-driven bet monitoring, while expanding the scope of services available to FIFA and member associations beyond detection and alerting, with additional investigative and risk services now built into the framework.The coverage is extensive, spanning men’s and women’s FIFA competitions, confederation-run international and international club competitions, and senior domestic matches across the top two tiers and main national cup competitions within FIFA’s 211 member associations.Sportradar said it has monitored more than 600,000 matches globally on FIFA’s behalf since the partnership began in 2017, using its Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS AI).Andreas Krannich, Sportradar’s executive vice-president of Integrity Services, said: “The expansion of our integrity agreement with FIFA further strengthens the ability to identify, assess and respond to risks in an increasingly complex global picture. It underlines both organisations commitment to fair and clean sport at all levels globally.“Our integrity services are designed to address risk in a joined-up way, combining bet monitoring through our AI-powered Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS AI) — built in-house using more than 20 years of historical data — with rapid reporting from betting operators, alongside comprehensive education and prevention programmes delivered to sports organisations worldwide.”For FIFA and its member associations, the expanded package is intended to tighten consistency of monitoring and response across markets, competitions and regulatory environments, while reinforcing the governing body’s wider integrity and governance agenda ahead of the next major tournament cycle.