The number of football matches with suspicious betting patterns in world football decreased in 2018, a report published by STATS Perform has found.
The 2019 Suspicious Betting Trends in Global Football investigation shows 377 matches were identified as having suspicious betting patterns, compared to 397 in 2017.
The drop comes despite an increase in the number of games analysed, with 62,250 looked at in 2018 compared to 54,757 the year before.
Europe again saw the largest number of suspicious matches 227 in 2018. There were 69 in Asia, 24 in South America, five in Africa, four in North America and one in Oceania.
A further 47 international matches were identified.
Despite the positive drop in the overall number of suspicious matches, there were tw…