It is often the chance of winning big from a relatively small stake that leads to many a football fan deciding to place a small wager on one or more football matches, and there are certainly plenty of bookies that will accept low value bets.
Whilst there was a time when anyone wishing to place such a bet would have to make a trek to a local sportsbook or betting shop, those days have long gone, and most punters now place such bets online or via a mobile betting app.
If you have never placed a bet on a football match before, then be aware you are going to be offered no shortage of different betting opportunities, and will often be showered with promotional offers, much more so to get you to sign up to a betting site or betting app as a new customer.
Today, I will give you a quick run through of the most popular and most commonly placed football related bets and wagers, which I am confident that some of you out there will be interested in placing but do obviously make sure you only gamble if you can afford to do so.
A Full-Time Result bet is one of the easiest bets to place and get your head around, for all that you are required to do is to decide which team will win a football match or alternatively place a bet on the match ending in a draw.
Such bets usually take into account the first 90 minutes of a match and any extra time added on by the referee, and the odds you will be offered for either team to win or the match to end in a draw will be determined by the bookie, and those odds can vary depending on which one you choose to place your bet with.
There can be some great fortunes won when you decide to place the second most popular type of football bet, which is a Football Accumulator. You often need to use what is known as a football coupon to place such bets which will list a large number of upcoming matches upon it.
You then have to pick out as many teams you think will win their matches, and/or as many matches you think will end in a draw and choose a stake.
If all of the outcomes you predict are correct then your initial stake goes onto the first outcome and then rolls over along with the winnings, in turn onto each additional outcome, which is how those mega-sized winning payouts can be achieved.
As the win odds on one team winning a football match could be quite low, much more so if a team is a red hot favourite to win a match, one way to try and get some much bigger odds is to place the third most commonly placed football bet, that being a Correct Score wager.
All that you are going to be tasked with doing if you fancy placing such a bet is deciding what you think the final score will be of any upcoming match. As there are of course so many potential final scores of a football match, the odds can be huge, depending of course on just which one you pick.
Moving onto the next two most popular football bets, well those bets are the First Goal Scorer and Last Goal Scorer bets, and the name of those two wagering opportunities do give you some idea as to what they are about.
You will of course need to locate a sports betting and similar sites that accept either of those two bets to place them, and you then have to decide which player you think is going to be the very first one in any match to score a goal, or pick the player that you think will score the last goal in any match.
It is also possible to mix and match some football bets too and place them as an accumulator or parley as such bets are also known, but the one important aspect of placing any such bets is to always ensure you are betting with a bookie that is licensed and is best famed for offering the best odds.
Other factors to take into account when placing football related bets and wagers is the speed at which online and mobile bookies settle their customers winning bets and additionally just how long they take to pay out their customers winnings as well.
