🔮⚽ 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: Champion Trophy
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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9/10 today for £14.20 profit. Overall at -£10.20
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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 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. 4.10Took an absolute pasting today! So much for the change of strategy
Result 2/5 wins = - £100.40
Running total: -£121.50Don't worry, I'll be back
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Lay Under 1.5:
NET 5.3+ Not currently qualifying
FRA 5.8+
ITA 4.1+
USA 5.0+ Not currently qualifyingFirst 3 I'm happy enough with currently
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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 -
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 -
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 3.60England 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 -
@Andy-Donnelly I'm going to do max 10 unless otherwise told.
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Did we agree on number of selections for the weekend? Is it still 5 a day max?
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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
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Congrats to the three winners of the first football challenge competition, all made a very nice profit on their picks!
@Alastair-Todd 1st place
@Richard-Latimer 2nd Place
@Wayne-Thomas 3rd PlacePM me your addresses for your prize!
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@Richard-Latimer said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :@Alastair-Todd said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Saturday's Lay Over 0.5 FHG:
Club Tijuana v Necaxa. 4.8
Heidenheim v Bayer Leverkusen
SC Freiburg v Dortmund
PSG v Angers
SV Werder Bremen v Eintracht FrankfurtOdds to follow nearer KO
Do you mean lay under by the way?
Yes, I absolutely do, not sure what I was thinking!
It was probably pretty obvious what I was trading but for some reason I had a mental block about backing over and laying under. I'll change it now. Thanks for pointing it out 
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@Alastair-Todd said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Saturday's Lay Over 0.5 FHG:
Club Tijuana v Necaxa. 4.8
Heidenheim v Bayer Leverkusen
SC Freiburg v Dortmund
PSG v Angers
SV Werder Bremen v Eintracht FrankfurtOdds to follow nearer KO
Do you mean lay under by the way?
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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 -
4/4 today for £39.20 profit. Overall at -£24.40
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@Alastair-Todd said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Friday's Lay Over 0.5 FHG:
Brisbane Roar v Macarthur FC. 4.10
Paris FC v Clermont. 3.6
Nice v Nantes. 3.6Result 3/3 wins = +£29.10
Running total: -£21.10 -
Lay Over 3.5 for today:
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@Nikki-HALSALL I've done it before many times
