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

Martin

@Everyone
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:

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

Good luck, and may the best bettor win!

Standings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ARYa_GAAhVpzHlUMYk-xH5moUy5ZiuvssbslgZfU_bI/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Richard Latimer

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

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

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

These are all currerntly qualifying on price. If any look like they are going to fall outside I'll offer up a substitute.

EDIT

I'm removing Aarhus. Doing a bit of work on the odds and not confident.

Swapping it out with Luzern v Basel

Swapping out FCSB with Alanyaspor v Galatasaray

The tiniest loss today after last minute swaps.

4/5

-£41.00 for Zwolle
+£39.20 for the rest

-£1.80

Running Total +£116.70

More and more this weekend I'm seeing the importance of odds, not just stats. I guess it points to the oddsmakers and their algorithims not being anyone's fools. Yes, the stats point to goals from everywhere but in so many leagues I've tracked for the past year, you cut off the top/bottom and sometimes both of those odds brackets and you get a completely different picture.

I had Nantes at the beginning of the day too and chose to leave it after my research on the odds this morning.

Richard Latimer

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

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

These are all currerntly qualifying on price. If any look like they are going to fall outside I'll offer up a substitute.

EDIT

I'm removing Aarhus. Doing a bit of work on the odds and not confident.

Swapping it out with Luzern v Basel

Swapping out FCSB with Alanyaspor v Galatasaray

Richard Latimer

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

These are all currerntly qualifying on price. If any look like they are going to fall outside I'll offer up a substitute.

EDIT

I'm removing Aarhus. Doing a bit of work on the odds and not confident.

Swapping it out with Luzern v Basel

Richard Latimer

These are all currerntly qualifying on price. If any look like they are going to fall outside I'll offer up a substitute.

EDIT

I'm removing Aarhus. Doing a bit of work on the odds and not confident.

Alastair Todd

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

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

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

Lay Under 1.5:

GER 3.15 - 8.4
FRA 4.1 - 7.4
SWI 3.15 - 6.6
MEX 4.0 - 11.0

How about if we do this again we increase max selections on a weekend day to 10? @Martin

That was a horror show. Forget everything I said. For the day I went 3/7. For this competition 2/5. Massive losses which I'll work out when I'm awake properly.

Alright, let's do this.....

Dortmund -£44.00
Rennes +£9.80
Young Boys +£9.80
Freiburg -£34.00
Celaya -£42.00

-£100.40

Running Total +£118.50

Bad day all round yesterday Richard, but you're still running away with it!

Richard Latimer

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

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

Lay Under 1.5:

GER 3.15 - 8.4
FRA 4.1 - 7.4
SWI 3.15 - 6.6
MEX 4.0 - 11.0

How about if we do this again we increase max selections on a weekend day to 10? @Martin

That was a horror show. Forget everything I said. For the day I went 3/7. For this competition 2/5. Massive losses which I'll work out when I'm awake properly.

Alright, let's do this.....

Dortmund -£44.00
Rennes +£9.80
Young Boys +£9.80
Freiburg -£34.00
Celaya -£42.00

-£100.40

Running Total +£118.50

GREGORIOS KARASHIALIS

@Richard-Latimer correct

Andy Donnelly

Lay U1.5s today:

11:15 - Willem II v Utrecht @ 3.9
13:30 - NEC v GA Eagles @ 4.4
14:00 - Maritimo v Academico @ 3.1
14:00 - Chelsea v Leicester @ 7.4
19:45 - Nice v Lyon @ 5.4

Here’s to a better day

Alastair Todd

Sunday's Back O 1.5 goals:
(First 2 selections cancelled due to my late posting of these and in the spirit of fairness! - they both won...)

Cruz Azul v Monterrey. 1.32
Newcastle Jets v Auckland FC. 1.24
Willem II v Utrecht. 1.34
Nijmegen v GA Eagles. 1.30
Nice v Lyon. 1.25

Hoping for a better day today.

Stephen Hancox

First half goal (running total -£32.45)

Eintracht Frankfurt v Union Berlin 1.34
Hradec Kralove v Karvina 1.46
Real Madrid v Rayo Vallecano 1.32
Widzew Lodz v Jagiellonia 1.36
Betis v Las Palmas 1.34

4/5 running total -£27.94

Martin

2/4 yesterday for a loss

Today's Lay Home Team:

Andy Donnelly

@Alastair-Todd Yeh rough day. Was 4/4 on the strategy selections that didn’t fit into the 5 yesterday so overall strategy was 5/9 but still bad.

Need to analyse if any trends although does look like one of those days. Hope for a response today

Wayne Thomas

Today's O1.5:

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Richard Latimer

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

Lay Under 1.5:

GER 3.15 - 8.4
FRA 4.1 - 7.4
SWI 3.15 - 6.6
MEX 4.0 - 11.0

How about if we do this again we increase max selections on a weekend day to 10? @Martin

That was a horror show. Forget everything I said. For the day I went 3/7. For this competition 2/5. Massive losses which I'll work out when I'm awake properly.

Richard Latimer

Looks like everyone has been left battered today

Richard Latimer

@Andy-Donnelly said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

1/5 today. Terrible day for overs backing. Loss of £124.4. Overall now at £11.50

Wow, that makes mine look good. I've had a horrendous day with 3 losses but only one on this so far.

Make that 2 losses here

Alastair Todd

@Andy-Donnelly said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

1/5 today. Terrible day for overs backing. Loss of £124.4. Overall now at £11.50

Gosh, that's tough Andy. I had a pretty bad day as well. Come back strong tomorrow

Andy Donnelly

1/5 today. Terrible day for overs backing. Loss of £124.4. Overall now at £11.50

Nikki HALSALL

For Sunday - just one

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