Hong Kong FA Agree Deal With Sportradar

The Hong Kong FA has agreed a partnership deal with Sportradar, apoplectic the world’s leading betting fraud monitor.

Sportradar’s Fraud Detection System (FDS) will provide the Hong Kong FA with intelligence about global betting on over 100 games per season until July 2017.

The deal was signed and confirmed at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester where the agreement was a topic of discussion as the Hong Kong FA’s Mark Sutcliffe and Sportradar’s Darren Small were both on the panel on match-fixing.

The agreement will see Sportradar’s system cover all 113 games of Hong Kong’s Premier League, League Cup, Community Shield, Senior Shield, FA Cup and Play-offs each season.

Sportradar’s Director of Integrity Darren Small, said: “As part of our commitment to providing our clients with 24/7 coverage of football worldwide, Sportradar opened its first Asian office in Hong Kong.

“So it is incredibly exciting for us to add our ‘local’ FA from Hong Kong to the list of associations who will not compromise on integrity.

“It was a really proud moment for me to be able to discuss our shared commitment to safeguarding football with Mark [Sutcliffe] before the eyes of some of the most important stakeholders and decision-makers in global football”.

Mark Sutcliffe added: “It has really been impossible to ignore the credibility and reputation of Sportradar’s Security Services both in the region and internationally.

“So to have the FDS monitoring all our professional level football is reassuring and to have that in place for three seasons underlines our own commitment to keeping our competitions safe.

Soccerex is the forum where football meets and to be able to put pen to paper here in Manchester and to be able to show our resolve to our fellow football leaders attending the match-fixing panel this morning was an opportunity the Hong Kong FA could not miss.”