🔮⚽ Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! ⚽🔮

[Martin]

@Everyone Starting this Friday...
Are you ready to showcase your football expertise and win big? Dive into our 2025 Football Betting Challenge exclusively at Betfair Trading Community.

This is a bit of fun to get our creative juices flowing. This isn't tipping.

Why Participate?
Compete with Fellow Fans: Test your predictions against a community of passionate football enthusiasts.
Exciting Prizes: Stand a chance to win rewards including a personalised trophy!
Weekly Leaderboards: Track your progress and climb the ranks with every match week.

Prizes Include:
Grand Prize: Champion Trophy
Second Place: Silver Medal
Third Place: Bronze Medal

Challenge Duration:
Start Date: Friday the 31st January
End Date: May 26th, 2025

Submit your bets below by commenting them.

Football Challenge Rules:

1. The bets are set and forget, so straight backs or lays.
2. You can submit up to 5 selections per day along with the odds of those selections
3. Selections must come from one strategy only, not multiple strategies.
4. You will need to update us on how many point’s profit you made.
5. All results should be recorded to £10 stakes, a £10 bet at 2.0 odds would be £10 profit if it won or a £10 loss if not.
6. Lay stakes are recorded to stake, so if you lay at 3.0 you are risking £20 to win £10.
7. Martin will record the standings in a weekly table.

Good luck, and may the best bettor win!

[Martin]

@Richard-Latimer I'm going to collate the scores once a week, so I will just need people to give me their profit on a Monday from the previous week

[Richard Latimer]

@Martin should we have a new thread each day? This is going to get pretty hard to track isn't it?

[Nikki HALSALL]

3/3 yesterday, here are today's over 1.5s

South Africa Premiership 01/02/2025 13:30:00 Orlando Pirates Kaizer Chiefs 1.51
Scotland League Two 01/02/2025 15:00:00 Peterhead Forfar Athletic 1.38
Slovenia Prva Liga 01/02/2025 14:00:00 Celje Bravo 1.26
Spain Laliga 01/02/2025 17:30:00 Atl. Madrid Mallorca 1.25
England League Two 01/02/2025 15:00:00 Harrogate Crewe 1.23

[Alastair Todd]

Todays Back O1.5 goals (meant to add them last night):

Sydney FC v Adelaide Utd. 1.26
Leeds v Cardiff. 1.31
Swansea v Coventry. 1.34
Newcastle Utd v Fulham. 1.26
Nijmegen v PSV. 1.26

[Alex Rule]

01/02/2025 Germany Bundesliga St Pauli Augsburg odds - 3.5
01/02/2025 England Premier League Ipswich Southampton odds - 3.7
01/02/2025 Austria Austrian Cup Sturm Graz Austria Vienna odds - 3.55

31/01/2025 Belgium Challenger Pro League FC Liege Seraing Utd odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Switzerland Challenge League Stade Lausanne-Ouchy Etoile Carouge odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Italy Serie A Parma Lecce odds - 3.5
31/01/2025 Mexico Liga de Expansión MX CD Tepatitlan De Morelos Club Atletico Morelia odds - 3.5
02/02/2025 Australia A-League Men Central Coast Mariners Newcastle Jets odds- 3.7

[Stephen Hancox]

FH over 0.5 for today (running P&L: -£9.12)

Motor Lublin v Lechia Gdansk 1.34
Heidenheim v Dortmund 1.32
Ipswich v Southampton 1.39
Charleroi v Dender 1.47
Union Berlin v RB Leipzig 1.39

[Wayne Thomas]

3/4 Last night: -£0.90

Here are today's O1.5:

[Andy Donnelly]

My lay u1.5 selections for today:

2:30pm - Heidenheim v Dortmund @ 5.7
3pm - Newcastle v Fulham @ 4.9
3pm - Leeds v Cardiff @ 4.1
3pm - Swansea v Coventry @ 3.75
3pm - Al Fateh v Al Qadisiya @ 5.7

[Martin]

I am using the Lay The Home Team strategy I have been testing, it has done well in testing so far but still early days so these are not tips.

[Martin]

@Richard-Latimer yes include 2%

[GREGORIOS KARASHIALIS]

@Stephen-Hancox did you win

[Alex Rendell]

@Richard-Latimer surely we're deducting 2% on all winnings?

[Richard Latimer]

@Martin are we including commission?

[Andy Donnelly]

2/2 today for £19.60 profit (to £10 stakes)

[Richard Latimer]

@Richard-Latimer said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

I'll get the ball rolling:

All selections are going to be from my lay under 1.5 system. I'll post up here along with any stipulations on odds. As I place bet 5 mins prior or sometimes the night before if it's an early early kick off I will update whether it's a trade or not.

Net Eerste must be no higher than 7 to lay
Aus A-league must be no higher than 6.6 to lay

So the very first trade I forgot to post again just before kickoff. Odds on Den Bosch were around 6.0 but I can't check exact again at the moment as there is a problem with betfair for me.

Oddsportal will confirm this however.

Betfair playing ball again. It was 5.9.

Final score 3-0

Odds on early morning trade no good.

Thats +£10.00 or £9.80 depending on whether we are adding commission or not.

[Martin Webb]

@Martin-Webb said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

Over 2.5
Germany Bundesliga 2 Elversberg v Karlsruher 1.53.

Won Points Balance +0.53

[Alex Rendell]

BET 1: Wil v Xamax - BACK Over 2.5 goals @ 1.70 odds 2-0 (-£10)
BET 2: Bremen v Mainz - BACK Over 3.5 goals @ 3.25 odds 1-0 (-£10)

-£20 overall

[Martin]

Great to see so many entries! I will be picking some over the weekend for a lay home strategy I am testing, didn't have any qualify today.

[Alex Rule]

@Martin got you.

I'll go with my BACK THE DRAW strat that has been going well.

31/01/2025 Belgium Challenger Pro League FC Liege Seraing Utd odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Switzerland Challenge League Stade Lausanne-Ouchy Etoile Carouge odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Italy Serie A Parma Lecce odds - 3.5
31/01/2025 Mexico Liga de Expansión MX CD Tepatitlan De Morelos Club Atletico Morelia odds - 3.5
02/02/2025 Australia A-League Men Central Coast Mariners Newcastle Jets odds- 3.7