🔮⚽ 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: Gold Medal
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.
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.

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

@Nikki-HALSALL I think you're the only person actually being able to compete at the moment! All my filters have been dead for a few days now. Bring on the resumption of some proper football.

Martin

@Nikki-HALSALL can't wait for this international break to be over!

Nikki HALSALL

One has popped up today for the Lay Away

Canada Canadian Premier League 08/06/2025 23:00:00 Cavalry York Utd 6.20

Winner total +49.00

Nikki HALSALL

Kick off at midnight so I guess officially for tomorrow

Brazil Serie A Betano 05/06/2025 0:00:00 Botafogo RJ Ceara 7.00

Winner - total £39.20

Nikki HALSALL

I have got 1 Lay Away today starts at 11pm, luckily as I forgot to pop it on here!

Chile Liga de Primera 02/06/2025 23:00:00 Cobresal Deportes Iquique 6.80

1/1 total +£29.40

Nikki HALSALL

Agreed 1st June seems a good place to start - my new strat didn't exist on the 31st May

Alastair Todd

Sunday's Lay Under 1.5 Goals:

Sundsvall v Falkenberg. 3.70
Oddevold v Landskrona. 3.70

Result 1/2 wins= -£17.20
Running total = -£17.20

Alastair Todd

@Richard-Latimer Why don't we just start today - otherwise I have three winners overnight that I didn't declare (which were more successful than the ones I did)

Richard Latimer

@Martin so do I include my selections from yesterday or we start today?

Martin

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

Is the next round already inplay given that the last ended?

Yes new round!

Nikki HALSALL

OK - this is brand new - created this morning so anything could happen.

Lay Away Strategy.

Brazil Serie A Betano 01/06/2025 15:00:00 Mirassol Sport Recife 4.80
Brazil Serie A Betano 01/06/2025 22:30:00 Flamengo RJ Fortaleza 9.60

Good luck to all

A good start 2/2 total +£19.60

Alastair Todd

Right ladies and gentlemen, here we go! It's the first of June and here are my selections on my Lay Under 1.5 strategy. Had three winners this morning but fell asleep last night before putting them on here so I'll suck it up this time. Therefore the two remaining for the day are (fingers crossed):

Sunday's Lay Under 1.5 Goals:

Sundsvall v Falkenberg. 3.70
Oddevold v Landskrona. 3.70

Richard Latimer

Is the next round already inplay given that the last ended?

Richard Latimer

Assuming the next round starts 1st June would anybody have a problem with me just posting my stuff up in my own thread with the understanding I'm using my lay under 1.5 system for the competition?

It got a bit tricky before and I took my eye off the ball massively when I need to be laser focused. Would enjoy being part of the competition again though.

Nikki HALSALL

@Alastair-Todd Thanks Alastair All to play for in the next round!!

If we have to change strategies again I might have to cobble together a brand new one!!!

Nikki HALSALL

@Martin Thanks - can't quite believe it. Hoping I have the makings of my 1st Strategy

Alastair Todd

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

Well done @Nikki-HALSALL. A really good effort. That's 1-1 now ! Bring on the next round!

Martin

Well done to @Nikki-HALSALL for winning this round with a very impressive £246.70 profit!

We will start a new one now for the summer leagues!

I have updated the rules in the OP to allow any number of selections.

Alastair Todd

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

@Alastair-Todd impressive comeback!

Thanks Martin, a reasonable run over the last few days (although some of my 'non-competition' selections haven't fared as well!). As you know, however, all it takes is for the odd one or two to go south and you start dropping quite rapidly again. This 0.5 filter hasn't been quite as reliable as the 1.5 filter I used in the last round but perhaps it's only a matter of time.