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Sweden’s gambling watchdog says it saw fewer match-fixing alerts in 2025, a drop it’s taking as a good sign, with one big caveat: fewer reports does not automatically mean fewer attempts to manipulate sport.
Spelinspektionen says it received two match-fixing suspicion reports from the integrity organisations it works with during 2025. That compares with five reports in 2024 and 12 in 2023.
A new source of reports just switched on: licensees
2025 also marked the first full year where Swedish licensees were required to report suspected match-fixing without delay, after the obligation was introduced in summer 2024.
During 2025, Spelinspektionen received four suspicion reports from licensees. One of those overlapped with a case already reported by an integrity organisation, and because the operator obligation is new there’s no older baseline to compare against.
A drop in alerts does not mean match-fixing has disappeared
Spelinspektionen is treating the downward trend as encouraging, but not as proof the problem is shrinking in real life.
Samuel Wahlberg, the authority’s match-fixing coordinator, said: “We see the downward trend positively, but the work continues to prevent and detect manipulation.”
The regulator’s warns that criminals adapt, and some manipulation may never get detected or reported in the first place.
Spelinspektionen carried out supervision across all betting licensees during 2025, checking the routines operators have in place to detect and counter match-fixing.
The message for operators
For licensed sportsbooks, fewer integrity alerts is good news, but it doesn’t reduce the compliance burden. If anything, Sweden’s shift to mandatory operator reporting makes internal monitoring and escalation procedures more important, not less.
Spelinspektionen’s own guidance says licensees must have procedures to detect and counter match-fixing and report suspicions to the authority, with information sharing routed through the national platform and the match-fixing council bringing together public authorities, sport, and industry.
Source: InterGame
