Swedish Sports and Gambling to prepare for common exchange on match-fixing data

Swedish gambling will enter a transformative phase during H2 as the government launches its new cooperative framework to combat match-fixing across all levels of professional and amateur sports.

Yesterday, Camilla Rosenberg, Director General of Spelinspektionen, Sweden’s Gambling Inspectorate, joined Minister of Financial Markets Niklas Wykman to inform stakeholders of upcoming duties.

Approved by the Riksdag in 2023, Swedish gambling and sporting bodies will adopt the “Measures Against Match-Fixing and Unlicensed Gambling Operations,” applying new controls and duties to report and co-share data on threats related to match-fixing and sports integrity.

As such, all relevant stakeholders in Swedish sports and gambling will share a cooperative platform for data sharing, and will be required to flag any suspected event of match-fixing on the common platform.

The platform sees the government change its approach to coordinating match-fixing investigations, by applying a data-led multi-st..