Hong Kong ties up with Sportradar to check football fraud

The Hong Kong Football Association Wednesday signed an agreement with the world's leading betting fraud monitor Sportradar to get intelligence about global betting on over 100 games per season until July 2017.

In the year that the Hong Kong FA celebrates its centenary, CEO Mark Sutcliffe travelled to Manchester England to sign the agreement which 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.

"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," said Sutcliffe.

Sutcliffe said 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," he said.