The FIH, field hockey’s international governing body, has today appointed Sportradar, the international sports data intelligence and digital content service provider, as its exclusive betting data rights partner until the end of 2030.
Effective immediately, Sportradar will have the rights to both collect and distribute internationally betting data from all FIH competitions – including the FIH Hockey World Cups, FIH Hockey World Cup Qualifiers, FIH Indoor Hockey World Cups, FIH Hockey Pro League and FIH Hockey5s World Cups – for the next nine years.
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The deal will involve Sportradar providing the FIH with a “bespoke competition management platform to manage their tournaments and data more effectively.”
The platform will be made available to all FIH member associations, and will help “manage competitions, match results, player statistics, and rankings.”
The partnership will last until the end of the 2029-30 season.
The FIH will “harness the data to provide more insights to engage hockey fans around the world.”
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By GlobalDataSportradar will also provide the FIH with integrity services, in the form of its Universal Fraud Detection Service. This will “help the maintain the integrity of FIH competitions and protect them from match-fixing and other risks.”
Ed Blonk, chief commercial officer and regional chief executive for Asia-Pacific, said: “Sportradar’s experience and technological know-how will allow us to create bespoke solutions for FIH that will help to elevate the profile of hockey and enable the continued growth of the game.”
Thierry Weil, chief executive of the FIH, added: “With Sportradar’s proven track record supporting some of the world’s biggest sports federations, we are confident that this partnership will largely contribute to growing hockey globally through bespoke data. Furthermore, we’re looking forward to benefitting from Sportradar’s expertise in providing intelligence solutions to maintain sport’s integrity.”
