The Best Football Betting Sites

The Best Football Betting Sites, this is your ultimate Guide To Football Bookmakers. Within this article, you will find the best football betting sites to suit the type of football betting you prefer. You can find numerous free bet offers on the 'Best for..' article pages and throughout this one.

Choose a football betting site for the way you like to bet.

Choose a bookmaker for more info, or the 'best for' category for details on all bookmakers in that category

This table is a quick representation of the best football betting sites based on your football betting style. 

The rest of this guide will go through in detail each of the areas and explains the research undertaken to produce this list of betting sites,

For more details on Best Acca Insurance, for example, simply click the text in the table to go to the complete guide for acca insurance bookmakers.

Which Bookmaker has the Best Football Odds?

Marathonbet is consistently the best odds for football. Adding less margin to the book, Marathonbet can offer better odds to their registered customers than other online bookmakers. Marathonbet has proven to have the best odds more often than any other bookmaker in our independent football odds comparison tests.

Table Showing Best Bookie for Football Odds Last Month

The table below is the odds comparison for several bookmakers for football odds last month.

We record football betting odds every day from a range of top bookmakers.

This table displays how often [in percentage terms] who has offered the best football odds throughout the month

If you are looking for great odds on teams to win their matches, then always check the ranking on this table for the best football bets.

There are many other criteria by which punters might judge a bookie to be one of the best bookmakers for football betting, and those will be addressed below.

bet365 are in a league of their own with no fewer than 137 different leagues on offer for betting as of August 2019. 

That's without domestic cup competitions which are also available and numerous!

You'll struggle to find a bigger selection of football matches to bet on than at Bet365. 

They offer betting opportunities from more leagues in more countries than anyone else.

The level of football coverage amongst bookies these days is excellent but Bet365 really take it to another level. 

They offer the best football bets in in Finland, Gibraltar, Macau and El Salvador and even in the more popular countries that people bet on Bet365 cover an amazing depth of leagues.

There are 5 Italian leagues to bet on and in Germany you can bet on regional leagues and even the U19 Bundesliga.

Despite offering fewer league in the comparison above, William Hill looks to be the best bookmaker for football betting when it comes to the number of markets on offer for the top games. 

You can often find around 250 markets in total for a popular Premier League game. [Who needs that many?]

Coral is a strong player in terms of markets on the top matches with over 150 markets available on the bigger games. 

Again Bet365 is a great bookie when it comes to the choice of markets.

They offer over 120 markets on the big Premier League matches and that's with markets such as Asian handicap and goal line, of which there are usually around 15 variations of each, counting as just one market.

That compares well with Paddy Power who will have around 110 markets, and also BetVictor, Betfair and Ladbrokes who usually offer around 100 markets.

Non Premier League and European Match Markets

When it comes to the less high profile matches the number of markets offered obviously decreases, but William Hill, MarathonBet and bet 365 are still excellent choices for markets other than 1x2 on less popular games. 

Taking a Serie B game between Benevento and Spezia in Feb 2020 as an example, William Hill and Bet 365  were out in front on markets offered, as you can see by the list below. 

• William Hill 98
• bet365 92
• Marathonbet 77
• Betway 76
• Ladbrokes 68
• Coral 68
• Paddy Power 66
• Betfair 60
• Bet Victor 43

MarathonBet came third in this test, so they are clearly a great choice for the smaller games, remembering as well that MarathonBet often has standout odds. 

All the bookmakers covered the main markets where they differed were the range of options within those markets and supplying more obscure markets. 

The football betting market is a very crowded place so bookies have to make football betting offers available to their customers in order to attract more bets. These are some of the most popular football betting offers:

1. Acca Insurance
2. BTTS Betting
3. Enhanced Odds Offers & Price Boosts
4. Cash Out
5. Edit Your Bet

Acca Insurance Refunds - What is Acca Insurance?

Acca Insurance is a promotion that bookies offer that sees stakes refunded (sometimes as a free bet, sometimes as cash) if exactly one selection lets your football accumulator down. In order to qualify for acca insurance you'll have to include a minimum number of selections in your bet (often 5).

Acca insurance dramatically decreases the risk of losing with football accas and is therefore extremely popular. The exact terms of the acca insurance should be checked on the bookmakers' websites before placing any bets. The following bookmakers offer the best acca insurance: 

• Paddy Power
• Sportingbet
• Ladbrokes
• William Hill

BTTS Betting Sites

Not a promotions as such but rather a football betting market, Both teams to Score is a very popular bet type that is often combined with enhanced odds and special promotions around big events. Take a look at the best BTTS Betting sites for more information

Cash Out Betting Sites

Cash out is the weekend staple for football accumulators. Some football betting sites offer better cash out options than others, so it is always worth doing some research into Cash Out betting sites to ensure you are using the best option for you.

Edit Your Bet

One football offer that goes one step further than cash out is the edit your bet feature. This allows you to remove selections from your bet after the events have already started. Obviously you will pay a penalty with the odds of your bet but it can be useful in turning losing bets into winning bets. Bookmakers that currently offer this facility are:

• Bet365
• Ladbrokes

Price Boosts and Enhanced Odds Betting Sites

Every weekend you will find football betting sites offering enhanced odds and some price boosts available for the games and markets you want to bet on. Never is this more prevalent than when England is playing. Finding enhanced odds on England bets is super easy during things like the Euros or the World Cup, both in qualifying and the finals themselves.

Certain bookies offer some regular and huge enhanced odds offers for football betting. The best-enhanced odds offers tend to be reserved for those opening new accounts with punters often able to obtain odds around the 10/1 mark for a selection that was previously odds on.

It is becoming more common for most bookmakers to offer enhanced odds on selected weekend accumulators. 

Bookmakers that regularly offer huge odds enhancements for new customers:

• Paddy Power
• Betfair
• 888Sport

Smaller odds enhancements are also available for existing customers with some bookmakers. The bookmaker will usually group a certain number of selections and boost the odds by somewhere in the region of 10%-25%. These price boosts can be great but you may find yourself betting on a selection you don't particularly fancy. Price boosts can also be found on single selections too.

Bookmakers that regularly offer enhanced odds for existing customers:

• William Hill
• Ladbrokes
• Betway

As football is such a huge sport for both bookies and punters it is no surprise to see a great level of coverage when it comes to live streaming betting sites.

bet365 

bet365 has an excellent live streaming service for use as long as you have a funded Bet365 account.

Geo-restrictions apply.

To use the Live Streaming service you will need to be logged in and have a funded account or to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours.

For UK/Ire horse racing simply place a bet of at least £0.50 win or £0.25 each-way on your selection to watch that race.

Betfair

Betfair has a decent range of football offered in their live streaming services with 8 European Leagues (the only major league is Spain's La Liga) and they also have a good range of non-European and also International football on offer. Like Bet365, when it comes to football streaming you'll only require a funded Betfair account to access the feeds rather than having to have had to place a bet on the actual event.

William Hill

William Hill have a good selection of European Leagues on offer including Spain's La Liga, Germany's Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1 as well as a great range of International matches and football from around the world. In order to watch William Hill's live streams you just need to have a funded account or to have placed a bet in the past 24 hours.

Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes only have 6 European Leagues on offer but that does include Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A so there is some quality action available. Ladbrokes also offer action from around the world and a selection of international matches too. If you want to watch live streaming at Ladbrokes you just need a funded account or to have placed a bet in the past 24 hours.

Unibet

Unibet has a very good live streaming service with Spain's La Liga, Germany's Bundesliga, Italy's Serie A and France Ligue 1 all included alongside other European leagues, leagues from other continents and international football. You can watch live football streaming free with Unibet if you have a funded account.

One of the most important considerations when watching a live stream of a football match on a bookie website is that the 'live' stream is actually likely to be delayed by around 10 seconds so if any odds look too good to be true it is probably because a goal has already been scored but has not yet gone in yet on your stream.

The greater majority of football punters now make their bets on their mobile phone. This mainly for convenience and there is a wide choice available. The best are rated in the relative app stores [scores below], but we have an up-to-date football betting app article, that provides information on the latest offerings from all football betting sites.

According to those reviews from users it is Betway and Paddy Power who have the best mobile app, given an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.