Slovak Football Association partners with Sportradar Integrity Services

The Slovak Football Association (SFZ) have signed an agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services – the world’s leading supplier of sports integrity solutions – to monitor and safeguard the integrity of their domestic football competitions.

Under the agreement, Sportradar will monitor lower level Slovakian football and club friendlies involving Slovakian teams using its Fraud Detection System (FDS), the world’s most technically advanced bet monitoring system, in order to detect and assess any abnormal betting activity. The SFZ able will also be able to call upon Sportradar’s Intelligence & Investigation Services and Education & Prevention Solutions during the term of the partnership, if required.

Jakub Čavoj, SFZ Integrity Officer said: “The Slovak Football Association is committed to the anti-match-fixing fight, and by entering into partnership with Sportradar Integrity Services, we are demonstrating the importance we place on keeping our game clean. Their FDS bet monitoring solution provides vital oversight of the global betting market, enabling their integrity specialists to alert us to any irregularities. We look forward to this cooperation and working together to protect the integrity of Slovakian football”.

Sportradar Integrity Services Managing Director Andreas Krannich added: “We are delighted to be working alongside the SFZ and offering our expertise to help safeguard their domestic football matches against integrity related threats. Drawing upon our 15 years of experience in the field of sporting integrity, and driven by our market leading FDS solution, we are committed to helping our sporting partners detect and prevent manipulation, and to identify and mitigate all forms of integrity risk”.