IBIA Flags 70 Suspicious Betting Alerts in Q1 2026, Football and eSports Lead
The International Betting Integrity Association recorded 70 suspicious betting alerts in Q1 2026 across ten sports worldwide. Football produced 25 reports, tennis 16, and eSports 15. The figures come from IBIA’s Q1 2026 integrity report, published on April 7.
Most tennis and table tennis alerts came from competitions outside the top professional circuits. IBIA flagged those events as more vulnerable to manipulation.
Europe produced the highest share of reports by region at 28%, followed by North America at 20% and Asia at 13%. South America and Africa each accounted for 9%. The remaining 21% covered global events, most in eSports.
In football, Mexico, Albania, and Cyprus appeared most often in the alerts. Tennis reports spread across Asia, South America, and Europe. Basketball, cricket, badminton, and MMA each produced isolated cases.
IBIA noted Brazil separately. The country might account for approximately 39% of the Latin American betting market by 2026. Brazil’s federal licensing system, introduced in 2025, could improve flow monitoring and reduce offshore operator activity, according to IBIA.
IBIA monitors over 1.5 million events annually and tracks more than $300 billion in betting flows across 90-plus operators.
TGJ Take
Nobody is in charge of eSports across all the countries where people bet on it. That is exactly where IBIA found the most alerts. Operators who take eSports bets need to check if their controls cover every country they operate in. Lower-level tennis and table tennis have the same problem. Most of Q1’s alerts came from those competitions, not from the top events.
