🔮⚽ 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: 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.
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

For tomorrow:

Price 3.15-11.0
NET 5.1-6.0 only

Richard Latimer

Lay Under 1.5:

Need min 7.2 and Max 11.0

Richard Latimer

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

Lay Under 1.5:

Need minimum 3.15. Currently not there.

Match doesn't start until early hours so based on where it is now I'm leaving it.

Alastair Todd

Thursday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Mazatlan FC v Tijuana. 3.7
Brisbane Roar v Western United. 4.3

Nikki HALSALL

2 for tomorrow

Australia A-league 17/04/2025 10:35:00 Brisbane Roar Western United 7.20
England League Two 17/04/2025 20:00:00 Bradford Notts County 3.90

Richard Latimer

Lay Under 1.5:

Need minimum 3.15. Currently not there.

Alastair Todd

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

Wednesday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Guadalajara Chivas v Puebla. 3.3
Juarez v Necaxa. 3.7
Cruz Azul v Club Leon. 3.8

Early doors so hopefully wake up to a (good) result!

Not brilliant but not a disaster:

Result 2/3 wins = -£8.40
Running total: +£20.30

Nikki HALSALL

Just one today

Japan J1 League 16/04/2025 11:30:00 Urawa Kyoto

Just realised I didn't put the odds down, was 3.6 but it won - running total +£23.50

Richard Latimer

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

Just these 2 Under 1.5 Lays to come in the early hours:

For ECU I'm looking for a min price of 3.85 and for MEX it's min 4.0

This isn't just a lay price exactly either. It's more of a look at the market and garner what's potentially achievable price depending on liquidity etc...
Mexico will be difficult as it's a 4am kickoff. Just need to do my best with prices on that one.

+£9.80 for Mexico. Left the other one on the table.
Running total -£45.20

Alastair Todd

Wednesday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Guadalajara Chivas v Puebla. 3.3
Juarez v Necaxa. 3.7
Cruz Azul v Club Leon. 3.8

Early doors so hopefully wake up to a (good) result!

Richard Latimer

@Nikki-HALSALL said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

@Richard-Latimer Ok thanks, I see what you mean when you post now because you have acceptable ranges for each league - do you do that all manually? Sorry last question .....maybe ......

Ask as many questions as you like. I'm only just getting to where I need to be. Yeah all manual at present.

Nikki HALSALL

@Richard-Latimer Ok thanks, I see what you mean when you post now because you have acceptable ranges for each league - do you do that all manually? Sorry last question .....maybe ......

Richard Latimer

@Nikki-HALSALL said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

@Richard-Latimer thanks, i have a little over 400 matches so not much to go on but Argentina is 50/50, no that I have looked Romania, South Africa, Austria are poor and Poland is borderline.

Would you ditch them this early and keep a smaller reliable core or wait for more results ie 1,000

Sounds sensible as I haven't culled anything yet?

I'd track them because I track every league if the liquidity is good enough. Certainly wouldn't put any money on them.

Have a look at the odds as well. I'm finding so many leagues function only at certain odds.

MLS has been brilliant but the minute I look under 5.5 it's woeful.

Nikki HALSALL

@Richard-Latimer thanks, i have a little over 400 matches so not much to go on but Argentina is 50/50, no that I have looked Romania, South Africa, Austria are poor and Poland is borderline.

Would you ditch them this early and keep a smaller reliable core or wait for more results ie 1,000

Sounds sensible as I haven't culled anything yet?

Richard Latimer

@Nikki-HALSALL said in Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :

Must of Jinxed it - 4 losers over the last couple of days and one amendment (missed a minus sign on my spreadsheet. New total is +£13.70.

Nothing showing today

If I were you I'd stay away from overs in ARG. The odds are small for a reason.

Nikki HALSALL

Must of Jinxed it - 4 losers over the last couple of days and one amendment (missed a minus sign on my spreadsheet. New total is +£13.70.

Nothing showing today

Richard Latimer

Just these 2 Under 1.5 Lays to come in the early hours:

For ECU I'm looking for a min price of 3.85 and for MEX it's min 4.0

This isn't just a lay price exactly either. It's more of a look at the market and garner what's potentially achievable price depending on liquidity etc...
Mexico will be difficult as it's a 4am kickoff. Just need to do my best with prices on that one.

Alastair Todd

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

Monday's Lay Under 0.5 FHG:

Santos Laguna v Queretaro. 3.6
Lechia Gdansk v Stal Mielec. 3.5
Tychy v S. Rzeszow. 3.6
Bournemouth v Fulham. 3.7

Result 3/4 wins = +£3.40
Running total: +£28.70

Andy Donnelly

3/3 today for £29.40 profit . Overall at £84.80