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The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) is Europe’ leading sports integrity monitoring unit. Established in 2005 by Europe’s premier online sports book operators with a sole mandate to protect and promote integrity in sport, ESSA’s membership now includes all of Europe’s leading private sector bookmakers, representing tens of thousands of individual bets – offline as well as online – each week. ESSA protects and promotes sporting integrity in three ways. First, by acting as an early warning system to alert sports governing bodies and regulators of any suspected illegal betting among its membership. Secondly, by working with partners in sports and other sporting stakeholders to implement educational campaigns and other grassroots activities aimed at tackling the problem of match fixing at its root and thirdly by acting as a leading voice in international dialogue aimed at finding a lasting solution to the problem of corruption in sport. A non-profit organisation funded entirely by its members, ESSA’s unrivalled access to industry intelligence makes it the most reliable source of information on betting activity in the EU and a trusted partner of over twenty sports governing bodies including the likes of FIFA, WTA and MLS with whom it has Memorandums of Understanding in place, and sports regulators, including the IOC with whom it has also established close relations.
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ESSA INTEGRITY REPORT 2012
The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) was created in 2005 to detect, disrupt, and report suspicious betting patterns...
ESSA welcomes the Commission's proposals to safeguard the integrity of sport from match fixing
Brussels, 23 October – The licensed betting industry’s integrity body, the European Sports Security Association (ESSA), welcomes the European Commission’s
Gambling and players associations celebrate
26 April 2012: The gambling trade associations, the RGA,EGBA, and ESSA, along with EU Athletes and the Professional Players Federationcelebrate today...
ESSA commitment to integrity of the Olympics
26 July 2012 - Ahead of London 2012 Olympic Games, (27 July to 12 August), the European Sports Security Association (ESSA) and all its members reiterate their dedication to a Games free of corruption ....
ESSA ENDORSES IOC RECOMMENDATIONS
2nd Feb 2012 – ESSA today welcomed the joint declaration of the IOC Working Group on the Fight Against Irregular and Illegal Betting on Sports, announced in Lausanne this afternoon.
STATEMENT: Europol Investigation
The European Sports Security Association (ESSA), the private betting industry’s integrity body, welcomes Europol’s investigation into football match-fixing...