🔮⚽ Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! ⚽🔮
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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: Gold Medal
Second Place: Silver Medal
Third Place: Bronze Medal
Challenge Duration:
Start Date: Friday the 31st January
End Date: May 26th, 2025Submit 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
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Just 1 today and its Ireland but have checked the stats and am going in!!!
Ireland Division 1 09/05/2025 19:45:00 Wexford Cobh Ramblers 4.4
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Friday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:
Roskilde v Hobro. 4
Sassuolo v Catanzaro. 3.8 -
@Andy-Donnelly thanks Andy, am only paper trading and it still makes me nervous
but I guess there is a reason the odds are high - game finished 2-3 so an easy winner.This competition is great, makes me focus. Really good to see what others are doing too.
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@Nikki-HALSALL I used to only go up to 6.0 max in odds but nowadays I’m happy to go up to 11.0 providing obviously that testing has concluded that it would be profitable.
I think it’s probably because of my horse racing strats where I am laying up to that point regularly. Probably has made me more used to it. Not for everyone though
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Took another hit the other day to take overall to -£230.60. Would be easy to give in but I have done some further analysis and by making a couple of changes think most of those recent losses wouldn’t have qualified. Will be much fewer in selections but in theory much fewer losses. So going to persevere. One over night:
01:30 - Millionairos v Pereira @ 6.4
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One today
Saudi Arabia Saudi Professional League 07/05/2025 19:00:00 Al-Nasr Al-Ittihad FC
I wasn't going to trade this at 9.4 but I see @Andy-Donnelly trading today at 9s so am going for it. Keeps the comp fair - just on paper for me still.
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1/1 yesterday so -£150.60 overall.
One for today:
17:00 - Al Khalidya v Mallika @ 9
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@Alastair-Todd said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Monday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:
Chengdu Rongcheng v Zhejiang Greentown. 4.3
Maccabi Tel Aviv v Hapoel Beer Sheva. 3.7
Shamrock Rovers v Sligo Rovers. 3.6Result 3/3 wins= +£29.40
Running total = -£34.40 -
Yeh. It may well be end of season syndrome where strange things happen more often. Thankfully only trading at min stakes on this strategy so not hitting the bank hard.
Will be more cautious tho. Am going to play one today after all:
18:30 - FCSB v Dinamo Bucharest @ 10.5
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Nothing today
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@Andy-Donnelly said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Bit of a shocker yesterday, gonna need to do a deep dive on the data before confirming next selection.
2/5 yesterday for £144.40 loss.
Overall at -£160.40I feel it too even though not in the competition anymore. Been free falling last few weeks.
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@Andy-Donnelly said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Bit of a shocker yesterday, gonna need to do a deep dive on the data before confirming next selection.
2/5 yesterday for £144.40 loss.
Overall at -£160.40I feel your pain Andy, I was there last week which is why I have been a bit more cautious of late.
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Bit of a shocker yesterday, gonna need to do a deep dive on the data before confirming next selection.
2/5 yesterday for £144.40 loss.
Overall at -£160.40 -
Monday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:
Chengdu Rongcheng v Zhejiang Greentown. 4.3
Maccabi Tel Aviv v Hapoel Beer Sheva. 3.7
Shamrock Rovers v Sligo Rovers. 3.6 -
Lay Aways for today:
11:00 - Home Utd v Geylang @ 6.8
13:00 - Real Madrid v Celta Vigo @ 8.2
16:15 - Lyon v Lens @ 6.2
17:30 - Sparta Prague v Jablonec @ 6.4
17:30 - Almeria v Eldense @ 7 -
3 today
Austria 2. Liga 04/05/2025 9:30:00 First Vienna Kapfenberg 5.80
Austria Bundesliga 04/05/2025 13:30:00 BW Linz Sturm Graz 4.20
Italy Serie B 04/05/2025 18:30:00 Cremonese Sassuolo 5.12/3 total +150.90
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@Alastair-Todd said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Saturday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:
Aston Villa v Fulham. 3.6
Dundee FC v Motherwell. 3.6
St Etienne v Monaco. 5.2Result 3/5 wins= +£29.40
Running total = -£63.80 -
5/5 today for £49 profit. Overall at -£16
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@Alastair-Todd in the end was an escape as only 1-0!!! Fate looking after me
