Many betting markets are available on each football game (especially online), offering a myriad of wagering possibilities. Here we look at the most popular forms of football betting and what they mean. If you want to know how to bet on football, understanding these terms will help you greatly.
Full time result
The simplest bet of all. In the full-time market there are only three possibilities; home win, away win or draw. This, along with most football bets, only incorporates ’90 minutes play’, i.e. if you are betting in a cup game and the game goes to extra time, only the result after normal time is called will apply to the bet.
If you wish to back the home side and they are 5/4, then should you be successful a £10 bet would mean a total return of £22.50 including your stake.
Double chance
With this bet, you are covering two possible full-time results. Again there are three possible bets available; home win/draw, draw/away win and finally home win/away win. Usually, betting on the favourite and the draw at the same time, meaning either result is fine, will yield a very small profit.
Correct score
This bet does what it says on the tin. Simply predict the correct score of the game exactly, i.e. Barcelona 2-0 Real Madrid.
Half-time/full-time
Here you are predicting both the result at half-time and the final result. So, imagine a game between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Betting on Barcelona/Barcelona means they will need to be leading at both half-time and full-time.
Betting on Real Madrid/Barcelona means Real would have to lead at half-time, but with Barcelona winning by full-time. There are 9 possibilities:
- Barcelona/Barcelona
- Barcelona/Draw
- Barcelona/Real Madrid
- Draw/Barcelona
- Draw/Draw
- Draw/Real Madrid
- Real/Madrid/Barcelona
- Real Madrid/Draw
- Real Madrid/Real Madrid
Super Heinz
The Super Heinz has 7 selections containing 120 bets in total. The following make up the bets: 21 doubles, 35 trebles, 35 fourfolds, 21 fivefolds, 7 sixfolds and finally the single sevenfold straight accumulator.
Goliath
This time we have 8 selections made up of 247 bets including 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 fourfolds, 56 fivefolds, 28 sixfolds, 8 sevenfolds and of course the eightfold. Even a 20p unit stake here would cost £49.40 in total.