The Netherlands Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) and Sportradar Integrity Services – the world’s main supplier of sports activities integrity options – have right now entered an settlement for the monitoring of competitions throughout a number of sports activities within the Netherlands all through 2021.
Sportradar Integrity Services will draw upon its important expertise and experience – having monitored international betting markets for irregularities for over 15 years – to supply guess monitoring and reporting for soccer, basketball and darts occasions performed within the Netherlands, which may embody over 1,500 matches this 12 months.
Alongside elementary guess monitoring for each match coated within the settlement, Sportradar will present the NOC*NSF with essentially the most full image concerning the already established and burgeoning international betting markets on home Dutch sport. Risk evaluation reporting will even be offered all through the partnership, together with information pushed insights to finest inform strategic selections to guard towards integrity dangers. Utilising these companies and Sportradar’s huge expertise in tackling match-fixing will drastically help the NOC*NSF in finishing up its function because the National Platform for the Netherlands underneath the Council of Europe’s Macolin Convention.
Gerard Dielessen, Chief Executive Officer at NOC*NSF, mentioned: “In order to work in line with the Macolin Convention, this pilot settlement with Sportradar Integrity Services is a vital challenge in understanding the betting publicity that’s afforded to Dutch sport. Through ongoing guess monitoring of our home sports activities competitions, and evaluation of the newest betting tendencies surrounding them we could have insights that can assist inform what the simplest and environment friendly long-term technique is to guard towards integrity dangers.”
Sportradar Integrity Services Managing Director Andreas Krannich added: “By signing this settlement, the NOC*NSF have proven their essential proactivity in defending sports activities competitions within the Netherlands from integrity dangers reminiscent of match manipulation. Alongside guess monitoring of key sporting occasions within the Netherlands, our integrity consultants will present on-going help to NOC*NSF via the evaluation of betting market tendencies and developments, and any danger elements we establish might be mentioned in our common evaluations. This is the primary challenge of its kind throughout the construction of the Council of Europe’s Macolin Convention, and it must be seen by different nations as a blueprint of what guess monitoring appears like at a nationwide, multi-sport degree.”
