A guide to online football betting sites, also including sports betting other than football. This betting guide is mainly aimed at UK and European football and ranks betting sites on the basis of useability, new account bonuses such as free bets, and range of services available.
Guide to Football (Soccer) Betting Sites - The Top Tips
A very reputable site, based in Stoke, England, this is ranked number one for a number of reasons. These include their wallet system (which can be used across the sportsbook, poker and casino) and overall useability. Many currencies are naturally supported, and deposits are accepted via debit and credit card as well as e-wallets such as Neteller and Moneybookers.
Click the interactive drop down below for a sample of odds available on upcoming matches:
In summary, this is an easy to use football betting site. Upon recent review, new accounts can claim a £200 free bet basket.
This is the largest bookmaker in Ireland and for good reason. In recent times the site has gained ground in terms of ease of use and is great for punters because of its wide range of odds available on different football matches as well as other events. The site has very competitive odds and you can bet via your mobile too. Deposits can be made via the normal MasterCard & Visa style routes or indeed using Moneybookers and Neteller, Western Union, bank transfer and PayPal etc. See below for links to odds on upcoming football matches:
As you might imagine for an Irish beting web site, you can bet on football as well as the Gaelic sort and hurling, plus mainstream international sports like golf,
cricket, rugby, etc. For those who love to bet on pretty much anything there are also odds on novelty markets such as politics, music and television. This is a well designed
site featuring football betting on UK and Irish Football leagues.
VC has been around for a very long time and operates globally based on the success of its betting shops. With over half a million customers and servicing over 150 countries, it's not difficult to see why it ranks as our number 3, just behind the leaders. The firm is regulated in Gibraltar and the UK.
Eurobet's offering spans multiple sports as well as soccer, such as basketball, tennis, motorsports and American sport. Its clear layout makes it easy to select from European soccer leagues such as the Spanish Primera, Italian Serie A, Serie B and C, Portugese Super Liga and the Greek Super Lague.
A guide for football betting
Football is the most popular global sport, perhaps due to its simple to understand rules and certainly because of it's intensity
and the well known clubs like Manchester United,
Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. With the English Premier League football season running from August to May, there is ample opportunity to bet
The
English game is dwarfed by the English Premier League,
formed in 1992 to replace the old English First Division. The EPL has become probably the world's most popular football
league, and it's competitiveness and high wages
attracts footballers from far and wide.
Next down from the EPL are the Championship,
League One, League Two, Conference,
Conference North and Conference South.
At the end of each season, the three clubs at the bottom of the
Premier League table are relegated into the Championship. Three
Championship clubs are in turn promoted into the Premier League,
the top two placed teams automatically and the third to sixth
placed teams play off for the final promotion place, often making
for exciting ends to the season.
Apart from the leagues, English football also has the Football
Association Cup (FA Cup), League Cup
and Charity Shield which punters will also be able
to place bets on.
Glasgow Celtic and Rangers dominate the top level in the Scottish Premier
League (SPL), followed by Scottish Division One,
Two, Three and the Highland League.
Welsh Football and Irish Premier Leagues also exist, and Paddy Power provides odds on the Irish Premier League (see
list above).
