Sizable progress is being made in the global battle against match-fixing.

Sports data company Sportradar released Thursday the results of its annual integrity report, finding 1,108 occurrences of suspected manipulation across more than 850,000 monitored events during 2024. That figure is down by 17% from the year before, which then showed a flattening in the amount of suspicious activity.

The rate of suspected match-fixing is now down to one in 615 events globally, a marked improvement from one in every 467 during 2023. The accelerating progress in fighting fraudulent activity in sports owes to several key factors:

Further improvement in artificial intelligence technology, which continues to play a significant role in detecting competition manipulation.