FIFA subsidiary Early Warning System (EWS) and the All India Football Federation (AIFF) have signed a monitoring service agreement to protect the integrity of football. The agreement covers all matches of the Indian Professional Football League (I-League) and the ongoing Indian Super league (ISL) for the season 2014/2015.

EWS will work together with the AIFF to tackle the threat to the integrity of football in the region by assisting the AIFF with EWS’s services, know-how and technical facilities. EWS will monitor betting markets on irregularities and analyse specific match situation in its sporting context. If EWS’s analysis indicates strong grounds for suspecting match fixing, EWS will alert the AIFF.

“This is an important step that showcases the fundamental role of EWS in safeguarding the integrity of the game and that we have a strong partner with AIFF in the Global fight against match manipulation,” said FIFA’s Director of Security, Ralf Mutschke.

As an ethical project, EWS forms an integral component of FIFA’s integrity initiative and supports AIFF first and foremost in the areas of prevention, risk management and information gathering.

About EWS
Early Warning System GmbH (EWS) was founded by FIFA in 2005 with the aim to safeguard the integrity of Football through prevention and early detection. The strategy of EWS includes trustful cooperation with national and International sports betting organizations as well as with public regulating authorities. Furthermore, EWS maintains its own technical monitoring system that enables the EWS specialists to monitor odds movements with hundreds of bookmakers worldwide and to detect irregularities in this context. Informal contacts within the Global sport betting market complement the monitoring activities. As a representative of an International sporting organization, EWS operates independently of the commercial betting industry and is not profit-orientated.More information on www.fifa-ews.com.

(Report & Picture courtesy AIFF Media)