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

Martin

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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

Alastair Todd

@Alastair-Todd said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

Sunday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix. 4.0
Gornik Zabrze v Legia. 3.70
Tottenham v Southampton. 4.30
St Truiden v Kortrijk. 3.50
Montpelier v Le Havre. 3.50
Pogon Szczecin v GKS Katowice. 3.60

Result 6/6 wins = +£58.50 (needed that after yesterday!)
Running total: -£63.00

Richard Latimer

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

Ok let's see if I can have as good a day on the away lays as yesterday!

MEX 3.80+
ARG 3.55+
COL 5.1+

Nothing under 2.62 and nothing over 11.0

There you go see. Done it myself again. Wrong thread.

Although can't help wondering if I should have put these in competition haha!

Richard Latimer

Ok let's see if I can have as good a day on the away lays as yesterday!

MEX 3.80+
ARG 3.55+
COL 5.1+

Nothing under 2.62 and nothing over 11.0

Richard Latimer

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

Lay Under 1.5:

SWI Odds 5-6.4
DEN 4.5+
BEL 4.6+
POR 4.3-7.4
SPA 3.15-7.4

Sometimes you just get a feeling. No more than a few seconds after I placed my trade and someone put £200 on back for the under forcing the price down a tick or 2. It was already on the edge.

Just pushes my entry price ever so slightly higher in Switzerland. When it stabilises I'll never lose haha!

Richard Latimer

Lay Under 1.5:

SWI Odds 5-6.4
DEN 4.5+
BEL 4.6+
POR 4.3-7.4
SPA 3.15-7.4

Andy Donnelly

Lay Aways for the day:

12:00 - Bangkok Glass v Nakhon @ 8.4
14:30 - Hearts v Dundee Utd @ 6
15:30 - Puskas v MTK @ 5.5
17:00 - Fenerbahce v Trabzonspor @ 7.6
22:00 - Boca Juniors v Barracas C @ 10.5

Alex Rule

1/6 yesterday so -£14.90 for the day -£53.59 overall

06/04/2025 China China PR Chengdu Rongcheng Dalian Yingbo 6.2
06/04/2025 Hungary OTP Bank Liga Ferencvaros Ujpest 6.8
06/04/2025 Poland 1. Liga Nieciecza Stal Rzeszow 5.9
06/04/2025 China China PR Chengdu Rongcheng Dalian Yingbo 6.2
06/04/2025 Switzerland Challenge League FC Vaduz Neuchatel Xamax 6
06/04/2025 Hungary OTP Bank Liga Ferencvaros Ujpest 6.8

Richard Latimer

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

Lay Under 1.5:

NET 5.3+ Not currently qualifying
FRA 5.8+
ITA 4.1+
USA 5.0+ Not currently qualifying

First 3 I'm happy enough with currently

Philly ruining a great day.

6/7 +£15.80
Running at -£13.60

Alastair Todd

Sunday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix. 4.0
Gornik Zabrze v Legia. 3.70
Tottenham v Southampton. 4.30
St Truiden v Kortrijk. 3.50
Montpelier v Le Havre. 3.50
Pogon Szczecin v GKS Katowice. 3.60

Odds to follow later (hope it goes better than yesterday...)

Andy Donnelly

9/10 today for £14.20 profit. Overall at -£10.20

Nikki HALSALL

Posting tomorrows early coz I am playing golf tomorrow and am up at 5am !!!!!!

Mexico Liga Mx Monterrey Guadalajara Chivas 3.9
Japan J1 League Kashima Kyoto 3.55
Switzerland Super League Basel Lugano 6.6
France Ligue 1 Rennes Auxerre 4.1
Poland Ekstraklasa Pogon Szczecin GKS Katowice 7
Belgium Jupiler Pro League Antwerp Club Brugge KV 5.30
Belgium Jupiler Pro League St. Truiden Kortrijk 4.60
France Ligue 1 Montpellier Le Havre 4.20

Alastair Todd

@Alastair-Todd said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

Saturday's Lay UNDER 0.5 FHG:

Club Tijuana v Necaxa. 4.8
Heidenheim v Bayer Leverkusen. 3.70
SC Freiburg v Dortmund. 3.50
PSG v Angers. 6.50
SV Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt. 4.10

Took an absolute pasting today! So much for the change of strategy

Result 2/5 wins = - £100.40
Running total: -£121.50

Don't worry, I'll be back

Richard Latimer

Lay Under 1.5:

NET 5.3+ Not currently qualifying
FRA 5.8+
ITA 4.1+
USA 5.0+ Not currently qualifying

First 3 I'm happy enough with currently

Alex Rule

1 out of 4 yesterday so £4.31 for the day so overall standing of -£38.69

05/04/2025 Israel Ligat ha'Al Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Netanya 6.6
05/04/2025 Saudi Arabia Pro League Al Ahli Al-Ittihad 6.6
05/04/2025 Norway Obos-Ligaen Lillestrom Odd 5.6
05/04/2025 England League One Birmingham Barnsley 5.5
05/04/2025 Hungary OTP Bank Liga Paks Nyiregyhaza 5.7
05/04/2025 Belgium Challenger Pro League Club Brugge B FC Liege 6

Andy Donnelly

Lay Aways today:

15:00 - Bolton v Bristol Rovers @ 8.6
15:00 - Charlton v Lincoln @ 6.2
15:00 - Al Duhail v Shamal @ 8.4
15:00 - Bradford v Crewe @ 5.7
16:00 - Paks v Nijereghza @ 6.4
17:45 - Twente v Sittard @ 8.8
19:15 - Lech Poznan v Korona Kielce @ 6.6
19:30 - Young Boys v Yrevdon @ 9
20:00 - Barcelona v Betis @ 7.6
20:00 - Ath Nacional v U Magdalena @ 10.5

Nikki HALSALL

Lay U1.5s today

Split into 2 top 5 if we only allowed 5 or all ten if we are doing 10

England League Two 05/04/2025 12:30:00 Cheltenham Doncaster 4.20
Ukraine Premier League 05/04/2025 13:30:00 Ch. Odessa LNZ Cherkasy 4.20
Poland Ekstraklasa 05/04/2025 13:45:00 Radomiak Radom Zaglebie 4.50
Scotland Championship 05/04/2025 15:00:00 Raith Ayr 2.56
England League Two 05/04/2025 15:00:00 Colchester Notts County 3.60

England Premier League 05/04/2025 15:00:00 Crystal Palace Brighton 4.3
Italy Serie A 05/04/2025 17:00:00 Parma Inter 4.80
England Premier League 05/04/2025 17:30:00 Aston Villa Nottingham 4.2
Germany Bundesliga 05/04/2025 17:30:00 SV Werder Bremen Eintracht Frankfurt 6.0
Belgium Jupiler Pro League 05/04/2025 19:45:00 Gent St. Gilloise 4.7

Richard Latimer

@Andy-Donnelly I'm going to do max 10 unless otherwise told.

Andy Donnelly

Did we agree on number of selections for the weekend? Is it still 5 a day max?

Richard Latimer

I forgot to post my Friday and Sat morning selections in here (they are in my own thread).

1/2 with a £39.20 loss.

Sturm and Melbourne City.

Running at -£29.40