English Football Betting

English football has grown in stature over the years and has overtaken the Italian and Spanish leagues, which used to dominate the sport in years gone by. As a result interest in english football betting has risen tremendously.

With the english football season starting in August and ending in May, theres a lot of money to be made betting on english football.

The majority of betting transactions are conducted online with most bookmakers offering such a service. Person to person betting exchanges have also become a major part of English football betting as have betting on footballing pools where a million pound jackpot is common place.

The English Premier League which is the top tier league in english football tends to attract most of the bets in english football betting with 722 games being played over the season, a number which doesn’t even include games played in club knockout competitions such as the FA Cup and Carling Cup.

The most popular bets are on who will win the Premier League (outright bets), with Manchester United almost always starting as favourites having won the most titles since the inception of the Premier League. Longer odds are usually placed on their closest rivals Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.

At the other end of the table, bets on which three teams are likely to be relegated to the Championship (the second tier) are just as popular.

Betting can also be done on the English Football League which covers The Championship, League One and League Two.

The English Johnstone's Paint Trophy (formerly the LDV Vans Trophy) , which varies in name depending on the sponsor and is contested by Football League One and Football League Two clubs, offers other betting options as does the non-league English Blue Square Premier.

There are a wide variety of betting options available in English Football betting including bet in play (live betting), match betting, outright betting, handicap betting, multiples (accumulators), top scorer, correct score, first goal scorer and bets on management vacancies.

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