National Basketball Association (NBA) announced a new partnership deal with sports bookmaker William Hill, making the England-based firm an authorized sports betting operator of the league in the United States. As part of the agreement, William Hill will have the right to use official NBA betting data and league marks …
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Online sports betting operator 10bet has announced its biggest sponsorship agreement to date, after becoming the official ‘Gaming & Betting Partner’ of Juventus FC – Serie A’s most successful and popular football club. The operator has signed a three-year partnership with the Serie A club, which is led by football …
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Brazilian professional tennis player Diego Matos has been handed a lifetime ban from the sport after being convicted of multiple match-fixing offences. An anti-corruption hearing found Matos manipulated the outcome of 10 matches played in 2018 at ITF level tournaments in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Portugal and Spain. The 31-year-old …
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The Football Association (FA) has sanctioned English Championship side, Huddersfield Town with a £50,000 fine, after the club breached the governing body’s kit and advertising regulations. On 17 July, the club announced a deal with Flutter Entertainment’s Paddy Power brand, A kit masquerading to be Huddersfield’s first-team strip for the …
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Dutch Eredivisie leading club PSV Eindhoven is seeking feedback from fans about the prospect of the striking a commercial partnership with an online gambling company. Local newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad has confirmed that the football club had sent out letters to its fans requesting their views on gambling promotions, with a …
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Police in the Australian state of Victoria have arrested six men aged 19 to 22 in relation to an eSports match-fixing investigation. Joint-investigation lead by the detectives from the Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit and Organised Crime Intelligence Unit began in March 2019 after a betting agency informed the unit about a …
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Dallas Mavericks and the team’s owner Mark Cuban have announced they will now accept Bitcoin to purchase both tickets and merchandise. The agreement makes Dallas the second team in the NBA to accept Bitcoin as a method of payment. Last year Cuban already hinted that fans would be able to …
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The Global Football Report 2019 has revealed that suspicious betting patterns in the sport have decreased following a year-long data study which spanned 62,250 football matches played across 115 countries in 6 continents. The report, which was was released by the working partnership of Stats Perform’s integrity unit, Starlizard Integrity Services and TXODDS, found out that …
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The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the organizer of the top four soccer divisions in the country, is in the market for a new title sponsor after betting company Ladbrokes opted not to extend its deal beyond the current season. Ladbrokes has been the title’s sponsor of Scotland’s four professional …
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Sportradar, the international sports data and digital content company, has expanded its existing partnership with North American football’s NFL. The multi-year agreement will see Sportradar exclusively distribute real-time official play-by-play data and Next-Gen Stats (NGS) to sports betting operators in regulated markets in the United States and internationally. The original partnership …
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Premier League football club Leicester City has unveiled its latest commercial agreement as The Foxes welcomes Asia-focused online gaming operator 19.com as a new official betting partner. Both parties signed a the multi-season deal, the length of which was not disclosed. 19.com will replace igaming counterpart W88, who recently entered a “record-breaking” partnership with …
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Former England captain Wayne Rooney will join Championship club Derby County as a player-coach in January from MLS side DC United. The transfer is under public scrutiny in the UK because of the online casino 32Red involvement. To make this transfer possible, The Rams have secured “a record-breaking sponsorship” deal …
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FC Barcelona and Croatian international midfielder, Ivan Rakitic, has been unveiled as the official brand ambassador of the Ukrainian-based betting company FavBet. The 2018 World Cup runner-up has signed a two-year deal with the sportsbook which is expected to cover both online and offline marketing campaigns, providing focused content to …
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Serie A, Italy’s top-tier soccer league, has signed an exclusive betting data partnership with Genius Sports, the UK-based sports data technology company. From the start of the 2019-20 season, Genius will use its pitch-side technology to capture data at all Serie A stadiums and distribute instantly as a live feed …
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“Gooool!Goool! Ahtnan-Wahat! Athnan-Wahat”! A thunderous scream was heard in Aden during Thursday afternoon (August 8th, 2019). Thousands of Yemenis celebrated their national teams’ second goal against Lebanon. Yemen, nicknamed “The Red Devis” because of their shirt color, scored twice within three minutes to grab a precious 2-1 victory over Lebanon …
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The German Football Association (DFB), has announced an integrity partnership with Genius Sports, the UK-based sports data technology company, to safeguard against match-fixing and betting-related corruption. Beginning with the upcoming 2019-20 season, Genius Sports’ Bet Monitoring System will analyse the movements of odds using predictive algorithms to highlight any suspicious …
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Online gambling operator MansionBet has been confirmed as the official UK betting partner of Premier League club Newcastle United F.C. The deal will run for two years – covering the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons – with MansionBet to operate betting terminals within the team’s St. James’ Park stadium. The agreement …
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Sports betting and fantasy sports operator DraftKings has entered into a multi-year agreement to serve as an authorized gaming operator of Major League Baseball (MLB). DraftKings is the second gaming operator to sign an official partnership with MLB, following the lead of casino operator MGM Resorts last November. As with …
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Following an investigation into a potential breach of betting regulations, Everton’s Yerry Mina has been charged with misconduct by the FA. The Premier League defender is alleged to have breached betting regulations after it was confirmed that he featured in an advert for gambling company Betjuego, in his home country …
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Flutter Entertainment brand Paddy Power has launched a new campaign urging betting operators to stop sponsoring football shirts. The ‘Save Our Shirt’ initiative highlights how in the 2019-20 football season, over half the teams in England’s top two divisions will be sponsored by a bookmaker. The campaign was unveiled after …
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