Asian Football Confederation (AFC) signs MoU with IBIA to strengthen fight against match-fixing

Post published:October 7, 2024
Post category:News / Sports Betting / iGaming

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC)’s resolve to protect and safeguard the beautiful

game in Asia was further underlined today through the signing of a four-year

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Betting Integrity

Association (IBIA).

Moving forward, the AFC and IBIA will work closely to detect irregular betting patterns

and suspicious activities in football matches across Asia. IBIA, through its Monitoring and

Alert Platform, will share real-time data on suspicious betting activity with the AFC,

further enhancing the AFC’s abilities to promptly investigate potential match manipulation.

The AFC General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs, Mr. Andrew Mercer said: “The AFC’s Vision and Mission has outlined our steadfast ambitions to uphold the highest ethical and sporting standards, and we are committed towards preserving our key tenets of fair play and integrity.

“Leveraging on strong collaborations with the world’s leading organisations is imperative to our fight against match-fixing and this MoU with IBIA further strengthens our ability to ensure football in Asia remains clean for the benefit of our future generation of fans, players and all our valued stakeholders.”

Khalid Ali, CEO of IBIA, said: “Cooperation is a vital part of any effective integrity monitoring and investigatory framework and IBIA is delighted to be able to strengthen its relationship with the AFC through this important information sharing collaboration. For its part, IBIA will seek to safeguard the AFC ecosystem by utilising the monitoring of its members’ global customer account activity, which covers over $300bn in sports betting per annum.”

Mr. Mercer, added: “The AFC is committed to promoting integrity, ethics, and fair play in Asian football and we are pleased to work with IBIA as we strive to enhance our capabilities to monitor and address suspicious activities, ensuring that football in Asia is safeguarded from the threats of match manipulation.”