Liga Stavok

The history of “Liga Stavok” is closely connected with the name of its founder Oleg Zhuravsky, a significant Russian lobbyist of bookmaker business interests.

Since 2010, the “Liga Stavok” began to cooperate with the Russian Premier League (RPL) to counteract football match fixing and corruption in sport.

His company started monitoring and controlling the pre-match betting markets on the RPL matches in order to detect collusion between participating teams.

According to the law, bookmakers were required to accept bets only upon the presentation of identity documents, to keep records of gambling participants, as well as to inform the taxation organizations and sports federations of the payouts or payable winnings according to the results of wagers on matches which ended with the least probable outcome.

[10][11] At the end of 2014, a number of large bookmakers, including the “Liga Stavok,” Winline, "1×Stavka" and 888.ru, united into the "First Self-Regulatory Organization" headed by Zhuravsky.

Improvement of the legal framework for online bookmaking took another year, and in February 2016 the first “Center” (ЦУПИС) was launched by the “First SRO” on the platform of the non-banking credit organization “Mobil’naya karta”.

[16] The “Liga Stavok,” led by Oleg Zhuravsky, was one of the main public supporters of the adoption of this law and actively participated in its elaboration.

Since 2010, Liga Stavok has been cooperating with the Russian Premier League in the framework of the Pan-European Early Warning System, aimed at fighting match fixing.

The purpose of the award is to encourage Russian teams showing respect for the rules and conditions of the game, demonstrating friendly behavior towards the opponent, referees, fans and the media.

In the same year, the Russian Hockey Federation and BC Liga Stavok agreed on a long-term partnership by signing a five-year sponsorship agreement.

The signing ceremony, which took place on the eve of the First Channel Cup, was attended by FHR First Vice-President Roman Rotenberg and President of Liga Stavok Yury Krasovsky.

During the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in South Korean Pyeongchang, Liga Stavok acted as the general partner of the House of Sport, opened by the Olympians Support Foundation.

For the fans, live broadcasts of competitions, teleconferences, exhibitions, film screenings, contests and entertainment tournaments were organized in the House of Sport, and the bookmaker presented a separate line of betting with coefficients for the events of the Olympics.

We thank our partners for their attention to hockey, for the desire to convey to people the names of athletes who glorify our country and are heroes for the Russians.” The laureates of the award are determined annually according to the results of the official matches of the Russian national team of the past sporting season in the framework of the Euro Hockey Tour, the World Cup, the Olympic Games, the Euro Challenge, the World Cup and other tournaments.

It is pleasant that in Liga Stavok they respect and support all our undertakings with great respect, in particular, in such an important area for us as the development of the National Hockey Players Training Program.” Analyzing the results of the activities of BC Liga Stavok for 2018 at a press conference at the IAA "Russia Today", Yuri Krasovsky said that the company's total investment in the development of national sports amounted to about 1 billion rubles.

In addition to constant rates for the results of Eurovision Song Contest, Oscars, Golden Globe Award, Cannes Film Festival,[30] the company bets on individual events.

The president of the company, Yuri Krasovsky, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Charity Foundation “Sozvezdie Dobra” named after Oleg Zhuravsky.

So, the prize from the Strawberry Fields Cup 2017 for FIFA 18 went in favor of the social rehabilitation center for minors in the city of Rzhev for the construction of a sports ground.

In 2017, Liga Stavok became the general partner of the annual FIFA 18 Strawberry Fields Cup 2017 e-sports tournament organized by Game Show and “Sozvezdie Dobra” named after Oleg Zhuravsky.

A year later it won also the nomination "Best PR Campaign for the Promotion of Russian Football.” In 2018, it became a laureate in two categories: "Best Bookmaker Company" and "Best Sponsorship Project of Football Competitions”.

According to the results of a popular vote, more than 15,000 users, and also according to the expert jury BC Liga Stavok became the absolute champion of BR AWARDS in two nominations: