Sports integrity firm Sportradar found 34 suspicious esports matches in 2025, making it one of the least-match-fixed games last year.
Switzerland-based sports analytics firm Sportradar published its findings for 2025. The 2025 edition of Sportradar's annual "Integrity in Action" outlined the sports with the most and least amount of suspicious matches, trends, and more.
They also have an ongoing partnership with Riot Games since 2019 to improve competitive integrity. Sportradar was notably involved in a few match-fixing incidents in esports last year as a third-party investigator. This included Global Esports VALORANT player Seungmin "ban" Oh's suspension last December. Sportradar also investigated the allegations of match-fixing within the North American region of VALORANT.
Esports had 34 suspicious matches in 2025, says Sportradar
Across the 12 sports monitored by Sportradar, esports landed 6th in terms of the number of suspicious matches played. However, the rate of these suspicious games are small when put against the fact that Sportradar analyzed about 101,898 games.
This puts the percentage of esports matches at 0.03% (1 in 2,997), among the lowest in the report. This is a slight decline from 2024, when Sportradar flagged 32 suspicious esports matches. The trend is downward, though, as 2023 had 46.
Note that Sportradar only counted "traditional" esports matches, like Dota 2, League of Legends, VALORANT, and CS2. Sports titles like e-soccer and e-basketball were excluded from the count.
"While most competitions remain clean, global match-fixing is becoming less centralised but more complex. Improved enforcement and education are reducing incidents in established markets, while new patterns are exposed in
emerging ones. Maintaining this momentum will require coordinated international vigilance and innovation across all stakeholders and sports."
Integrity In Action: 2025 Global Analysis & Trends, Sportradar
Soccer remains the most-manipulated sport worldwide according to Sportradar's findings. The sport had a 0.31% rate of suspicious matches, equating to about 1 in 326. It is closely followed by basketball, which had 0.29% (1 in 344).
Out of the 125 total sporting sanctions Sportradar supported, only 9 were in esports. On top of the abovementioned one on ban, there was Dai Phu “Hoopa” Mong from the LCO, Trevor "Trevor" Roy from the NACL, and Frank Esports Academy during the 2024 Asia Star Challenger Invitational.
