The great popularity of gambling also means that online gambling websites are also quite popular, and it can be said that more and more new websites are added to the gambling market every month.
In today’s article, I want to introduce you to these sites.
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1.MidasBet
2.PuntNow
3.JustBet
4.TopSport
5.WinnersBet
6.Betfair.com.au
Why are new betting sites popular among players?
As technology develops, people demand more innovations and services tailored to them. Unlike traditional online gambling sites, new websites offer many alternative gambling options. Bonus systems, many alternative payment methods, and high-quality customer support. Many players are often hesitant to try something new, especially when there are more reputable, long-term betting sites out there. However, we’re going to tell you right now that by not checking out a new betting site, you could be missing out on a whole lot. So, let’s dive into the pros and cons of new Australian betting sites compared to older, more well-known Aussie betting sites.
· New technology is available which means you can get a better experience across all devices including mobile phones.
· Brand-new betting sites often have a cleaner, simpler design for improved navigation.
· New Australian sports betting sites tend to have more in-play sports betting options and live streaming.
· Often you’ll find more niche sports on offer.
· Hasn’t built a strong reputation within the industry yet.
· Sometimes still glitchy due to being relatively untested.
Joining new Australian betting sites — step-by-step guide
So now you’ve gone through all you need to know about the best new betting sites out there. The next step is to join up! And, luckily for you, getting an account with a new betting site is a very simple process. In the following section, we’re going to take you through the different steps to get you up and running at a new betting exchange or sportsbook in minutes.
Check out our recommended best new Australian sites list
Take a look at our list of the best new betting sites in Australia and choose one that has the features you want to use.
Start the sign-up process
Open the home page of the sportsbook either on your mobile device or laptop. Click on the registration button and fill out the form provided.
Fill in the blanks
Make sure you provide all details accurately including your name, email, address, date of birth, and so on.
Luke Garrison is a professional writer who grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently works at the Canadian Press and enjoys the outdoors in his free time.
Canadian bettors, and sports bettors everywhere, should be able to bet in a safe, non-convoluted way.
Claim Sportsbook Betting Bonuses
As a Canadian sports bettor, the multitude of sportsbooks available to you will always work in your favour. Simply put, sportsbooks are competitive and are therefore willing to offer you a great deal – as a new player or otherwise. If there’s one piece of advice every sports bettor should know, it’s to take advantage of promotional offers.
The best sportsbook bonuses are usually welcome offers given to new players, with commonplace deals predominantly being ‘deposit matches’. When a book offers a ‘deposit match’ bonus, it’s usually a certain percentage up to a certain amount.
For example, let’s say ‘X Sportsbook’ is offering all new players a ‘50% deposit match bonus of up to $500’ on initial (meaning first-ever) deposits. If you were to deposit $250 you would receive $125 in bonus bets, whereas a maximum deposit of $500 would net $250 in bonus bets.
It’s important to note that if you were to initially deposit more than $500, you would still only receive a maximum of $250 in bonus bets – as that’s the specified limit. For those who may be wondering what ‘bonus bets’ are, they’re simply bet credits that can be used to place wagers on any sport.
The specification of ‘bonus bet’ is to remind players that you cannot withdraw these bonus amounts as real cash. For example, if you deposited $400 and received a $200 deposit match bonus, you cannot then withdraw $600 cash. The only way to turn bonus bets into real cash is to win a wager with them.
Deposit match bonuses are sometimes offered to existing users as well, but ongoing promotions for returning players can be any number of other incentives. One of those perks is called an ‘odds boost’, which gives you a larger payout on favourable betting markets.
For example, if a ‘Connor McDavid anytime goal’ markets boosts its odds from -110 (favourite) to +140 (underdog) as a part of a promotional special, you’re in line to win a significant amount more than you would have if the odds hadn’t been boosted.
In short, these bonuses are everywhere, and sportsbooks make them easy to find. Don’t be afraid to make an account with multiple books to take advantage of several offers at once. It’s completely legal, so long as you only make one account per book per person.
Go Line Shopping
Similarly to bonus hunting, finding value by line shopping is best done by having an account with multiple sportsbooks. That said, you don’t need to start off by signing up for 10 different books. Take your time, and build things up slowly until you’re feeling confident in your understanding of this concept.
The best way to think about line shopping is to simply think of it as price matching. People are always looking to get the best price on everything whether it be groceries, cars, or even vacations. Sports betting is no different as books will have similar odds; however, the slight variations are how you can ensure you’re maximizing every dollar you wager.
The last section spoke of ‘boosted odds’, and line shopping is a good way to boost them on your own terms by finding discrepancies amongst different books. For example, say you want to place a futures bet on the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup. ‘Book A’ has that wager at +500 odds, ‘Book B’ has it at +520, and ‘Book C’ has it at +550.
It may not seem like much of a difference, and in a vacuum, it isn’t. To show the difference it can make, let’s say you have $50 you’d like to bet on this market. A winning bet with Book A at +500 would return $300, Book B would payout $310, and Book C would earn you $325.
As you can see, the gap is subtle, but why settle for a $300 payout when it could be $325? All because you took a bit of time to find the book with the best odds. As mentioned before, you don’t need to have an account with a crazy number of books.
The above example involves using just three, and you never know when a book might make a mistake, which is easy to identify when you’re shopping (comparing) odds against the field.
Watch The News
This last tip may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people place poor bets because they simply couldn’t be bothered to look at context. The first reason to watch the news is due to injuries. Books will often refund single bets affected by a late injury announcement prior to game time, but it can really mess up a multi-leg parlay.
Another way injury news can help is by shedding some light on which teams may have a better chance to win than the odds indicate. For example, the Toronto Maple Leafs are favoured to win over the Montreal Canadiens, but late news comes out that the Leafs will be starting their backup goalie.
Sometimes, the odds won’t reflect this change right away, and you could then place a bet on the Canadiens to win as underdogs, even though the team’s chances of winning just greatly increased. It can sometimes be hard to take advantage of these brief windows, but watching platforms like ‘X’ for breaking news is a great way to potentially take advantage of inaccurate odds.
This advice works for player props as well. For example, if Auston Matthews is a late scratch for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Max Domi is promoted to the first power play unit, his chances of getting a point have skyrocketed. In these instances, don’t spend too much time line shopping, as submitting the bet before the odds change is the best way to strike while the iron’s hot.
We hope these tips will help you improve your sports betting game. Good luck!
It was a season for record-breaking in women’s college basketball. Multiple scoring records fell, as did records for television viewership. And now we all turn our attention to what is sure to be an incredible Women’s NCAA Division I Tournament, with the chance for more records.
First Four
The first “First Four” was played on the men’s side in 2011. The women expanded their field in 2022, and since then they’ve also been playing the First Four.
We start things off for the women on Wednesday, with Sacred Heart and Presbyterian playing for the right to be the 16-seed that plays South Carolina in the Round of 64. South Carolina is the runaway favorite to win the entire tournament – college basketball online sportsbooks have them at -120, and the winner on Wednesday night is in for a rough Friday.
Also tipping off on Wednesday is Vanderbilt and Columbia, playing for the right to be a 12-seed. The Commodores are in their first tournament in 10 years, and Columbia, which began playing in the Ivy League in 1986, is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time.
On Thursday, the two games feature Auburn and Arizona playing for the 11-seed, and Holy Cross and Tennessee Martin playing for a 16-seed. The winner of Auburn-Arizona will play Syracuse on Saturday. The Holy Cross-Tennessee Martin winner gets No. 1 seed Iowa.
Caitlin Clark set multiple records this year, including most three-pointers made in one season. The record for career three-pointers made is 537 and held by Taylor Robertson. Iowa online sportsbooks are taking bets on when Clark, who has 520, will break the record and hit three-pointer 538. The betting favorite is the Elite 8, at +200. If she can get there by the second round, the payout is +5000.
Albany 1 Region
As mentioned already, South Carolina is the overwhelming favorite to cut down the nets in Cleveland and win the National Championship. They have an entirely new starting lineup from last year, and they are actually better than last year’s Final Four team.
They are first in the nation in defense, second overall in offense, and they are a perfect 32-0. Notre Dame is the No. 2 seed in the region, and Indiana online sportsbooks have the Irish a distant +4500 to win the tournament.
Albany 2 Region
Iowa is the No. 1 seed in the Albany 2 Region, which includes No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 LSU, and No. 4 Kansas. It’s a tough bracket for the Hawkeyes, and if they do make it back to the Final Four, it will be well-earned. UCLA is one of the deepest teams in the country, and LSU is the defending champion. If things go as planned for the Hawkeyes and Tigers, we’ll see the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rematch, with a trip to the Final Four on the line.
Portland 3 Region
USC is the top seed in the Portland 3 Region, and they face Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first round. Freshman JuJu Watkins finished as the nation’s second-leading scorer, only trailing Clark. Also in the region is UConn, who, despite losing five players to season-ending injuries, are once again in the national championship conversation. The 11-time national champion is paying +1600 to win another title at Connecticut online sportsbooks.
Portland 4 Region
The final region is Portland 4, and the Texas Longhorns are the top seed. Even after losing point guard Rori Harmon to a torn ACL in December, Texas still managed to win the Big 12 and earn a top seed. Stanford is the two-seed, and they were in the running for the No. 1 until the final day.
BetUS.com has Clark as the big favorite to win WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2024, paying +400. But if she doesn’t, Stanford’s Cameron Brink is a likely candidate. She was an NCAA champion in 2021, she has twice been the Pac-12 Player of the Year, and most WNBA online sportsbooks have the Los Angeles Sparks selecting her with the No. 2 overall pick in the WNBA Draft, just behind Clark.
After a great week of conference tournament action, and a final goodbye to the Pac-12 conference, the Men’s NCAA Tournament field is set. On Tuesday, the first of 67 games tips off.
First Four
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we have the First Four, as eight teams compete in four games for the right to play in the final field of 64 teams.
The first game on Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, is between Wagner and Howard. The winner will be the 16th seed in the West Region and play No. 1 seed North Carolina on Thursday. Wagner is in the tournament for the first time in 21 years, while Howard was a 16-seed last year and lost to Kansas.
The second game Tuesday night is for the 10th seed in the Midwest, as Virginia takes on Colorado State. BetUS.com has the Rams of CSU two-point favorites to advance to the first round on Thursday and play the 7th-seeded Texas Longhorns.
Wednesday’s games feature two other similar battles – Grambling and Montana State play as 16-seeds, with the winner playing the No. 1 seed in the Midwest, Purdue. Colorado and Boise State are 10-seeds, and the winner there will play No. 7 Florida in the South. Grambling is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since moving to Division I. The Bobcats of Montana State are in the Big Dance for the third straight year.
Final Four Betting Odds
Purdue is the top seed in the Midwest, and college basketball online sportsbooks have the Boilermakers as the heavy favorite to win the region. They are paying +165, while No. 2 seed Tennessee is at +350. The Creighton Blue Jays are the No. 3 seed, and they are +400 to make the Final Four. Kansas is the four-seed and Gonzaga is the five, but it is the Bulldogs who have the fourth-shortest odds in the region at +700.
North Carolina is the top seed in the West Region. However, the newly opened online sportsbooks in the Tar Heel State do not have them as the favorites to advance to the Final Four. UNC is second at +230, and Arizona is first at +190. The Sweet 16 and Elite 8 matchups for the West Region take place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Baylor is the third-seed and pays +700. Alabama is No. 4 and paying +900 to make a Final Four run.
The defending champion Connecticut Huskies are the top seed in the East Region, and they are big favorites to win it, paying +105. Auburn is the No. 4 seed, and their odds for the Final Four are +380. Iowa State is the two seed, but Iowa retail sportsbooks have them as the third-most likely team to advance. A Final Four bet on the Cyclones pays +400. Illinois, the three seed, is +750.
To no one’s surprise, the Houston Cougars were given the top seed in the South, and they are favorites to win the region at +140. Duke is next, with No. 2 seed Marquette trailing them. Wisconsin retail sportsbooks have the Golden Eagles at +550 and the Blue Devils at +450, despite Duke being just the fourth seed. Kentucky is the No. 3 seed and they are paying +700.
Five versus Twelve Upset
When you fill out your bracket this week, you do have to pick at least one No. 12 seed to beat a No. 5 seed. Otherwise your bracket is incomplete. Or at least ignoring the history of this matchup.
The No. 12 seed is 53-99 all-time in the first round, which is a winning percentage of .349, and at least one 12-seed has won in 17 of the last 22 tournaments.
Bovada.lv provides the odds for the four matchups this year:
No. 12 McNeese State vs. No. 5 Gonzaga (-6.5)
No. 12 UAB vs. No. 5 San Diego State (-6.5)
No. 12 Grand Canyon vs. No. St. Mary’s (-5)
No. 12 James Madison vs. No. 5 Wisconsin (-4.5)
Along with the bookmakers rating James Madison with the best chance for the upset, so do the numbers. JMU is one of just four teams this year to win 30 games – they finished the season 31-3. They also head into the first round matchup with the Badgers on a 13-game win streak.
It is played by dropping a ball onto a spinning wheel, which rotates rapidly.
Players may bet on numbers or colors, or both, the odds of winning are not statistically better than if they choose their own numbers.
The game originated in the 18th century France.
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Roulette is a game of chance. It is one of the most popular games played in casinos all around the world.
It is believed that roulette was invented in 18th-century France, by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and physicist. He envisioned it as an experiment to solve gambling problems at his father’s gaming house.
The game consists of spinning a small ball around on the edge of a table, which leads to its eventual fall into one of 37 or 38 (depending on where you play) numbered slots on the table surface. As it falls, the player bets on whether or not they think it will land in one of these slots (or if they will tie).
Liverpool and Man City picked up midweek wins to keep the Premier League title race extremely interesting.
With the Reds in EFL Cup final action on Sunday, City and third-placed Arsenal have the chance to cut Liverpool’s lead with wins this weekend.
City travel to Bournemouth on Saturday evening, while Arsenal host Newcastle a few hours later.
Elsewhere, there’s a huge game at the bottom as Crystal Palace host Burnley in Oliver Glasner’s first match in charge of the Eagles. Will he make a winning start?
As always, we’ll have great offers on all the action, including Nicole Holliday’s picks, Enhanced Odds and much more. And, if you’ve not used it already, don’t forget your Epic Boost is available before you get a new one on Sunday.
To get you ready, let’s look at three of this weekend’s Premier League matches…
Brighton v Everton
Amex Stadium
Saturday, 24th February @ 15:00
Brighton crushed 10-man Sheffield Utd 5-0 last weekend. Will they be too strong for another struggling side when they host Everton? The Seagulls are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League home games (W5 D5).
Everton continue to look over their shoulders after a dreadful run of form. The Toffees are on the longest winless run in the division (8) and haven’t scored in their last three away games. Get 23/10 on a Brighton win to nil.
All might not be lost for Everton, though. The 11/4 odds on an away win could be worth a look. The home side hasn’t won any of the last six Premier League meetings between these two sides, with Everton winning on their last two visits to the Amex.
With Everton’s form and Brighton’s thirst for goals, it might be worth considering the 9/4 on the Seagulls scoring three or more. Nine of their 10 league wins this season have seen them score at least three times.
If Everton are to score in this one, a corner looks to be their best chance. Only Arsenal (11) have scored more from corners than the Toffees (10) this season. Dwight McNeil is their main corner-taker, registering three assists from them. Get 9/2 on the winger getting another.
Arsenal v Newcastle
Emirates Stadium
Saturday, 24th February @ 20:00
After their surprising late defeat to Porto in the Champions League, Arsenal will hope to bounce back and stay in touch with Liverpool and Man City in the title race.
The Gunners welcome Newcastle to the Emirates, a fixture they have dominated in recent years (W10 D1). It’s 8/5 Arsenal win and both teams score.
Newcastle got the better of Mikel Arteta’s side in November, winning 1-0 thanks to Anthony Gordon’s second-half strike. They’ve not done the double over Arsenal since 1994/95 and are 6/1 to do so this weekend.
Bukayo Saka is sure to play a key role for Arsenal. He’s been on fire recently. Get 5/4 on Saka to score at any time and 7/4 on him to get an assist. The England forward has scored six goals in his last four games, netting back-to-back braces against West Ham and Burnley.
Should Gordon net in this game he would become just the second player to score home and away against Arsenal in a single Premier League season after Peter Beardsley. Gordon is 8/1 to score the first or last goal.
Wolves v Sheff Utd
Molineux
Sunday, 25th February @ 13:30
Things are not looking good for Sheffield Utd. The Blades are rooted to the bottom of the table and don’t seem to be able to stop the goals going in.
So, how will they fare at Molineux? Well, Wolves are unbeaten in their last eight home games against Sheffield Utd (W4 D4). They’re odds on to win, while the Blades are 5/1 to claim three points.
However, the Blades have only led for 183 minutes this season and Wes Foderingham has only kept one clean sheet, while conceding 63 goals. Wolves to win to nil is 6/4.
The Empire State capped of its year at the top of all U.S. sports betting markets, with an all-time high $188.3 million in gross gaming revenue.
However, the $2.04 billion in total wagers for December did not quite beat November’s national record handle of $2.109 billion. While November saw more wagered, it also saw the second-lowest monthly hold for operators, as New York state bettors took the ‘books to the cleaners.
The house bounced back in December, though, as revenues tidily beat the previous monthly high of $166.3 million, set in October 2023, by 13.2%. The figures also showed a substantial 32.8% increase from December 2022’s $141.8 million.
To top it off, it was the third consecutive month that New York bettors have wagered more than $2 billion, underlining the growing popularity of the largest U.S. sports betting market going into 2024.
All of that translated into significant tax contributions for the state. Sports betting in New York generated more than $96 million in taxes for December, and more than $861.8 million for the year 2023.
FanDuel and DraftKings Dominate Competitive Landscape
FanDuel emerged as the front-runner in the market for the month, stretching its lead over DraftKings, with $93.6 million in revenue from $834.5 million in bets.
That news comes as FanDuel’s owner, Flutter Entertainment, is in the final stages of moving its stock listing from London to the New York Stock Exchange.
FanDuel’s main rival, Boston-based DraftKings, followed in second for December with a revenue of $65.2 million and a handle of $773.4 million.
Caesars maintained its third-place position, with $15.9 million in revenue from $202.0 million in bets.
Other notable contributors included BetMGM with $8.1 million in revenue, and Rush Street Interactive with $3.1 million.
Losses and Taxes
Despite these successes, two operators, Bally Bet and Wynn Interactive, reported losses in December.
Considering it has now made a loss for two months in a row in the nation’s largest market — the first operator to do so, no less — things aren’t looking good.
This performance has led some business figures to speculate that WynnBET’s New York license may prove attractive to Penn Entertainment’s shiny new ESPN Bet.
Meanwhile, Bally Bet, only re-opened in November 2023 after closing down for several months to upgrade the service, retained last place as least-popular sportsbook in New York.
It didn’t capitalize on its profitable November and fell to a $252,000 loss – although it did improve its overall handle, which rose to $6.6 million.
Operators in the nation’s biggest market are also charged its highest sports betting tax rate at 51%. They also can’t deduct promotional spending, as they do in many states.
That meant sportsbooks actually took home $92 million in revenues in December, and the New York tax authorities took $96 million.
It may not be sports betting – but another big win worth celebrating happened in New York gambling in December. Brookyln resident Wayne Murray beat unbelievable odds to win his second $10 million New York lottery jackpot in two years.
Regulators in Maine have passed one of the final steps in getting ready for its legal sports betting market launch between November 5 and 15. The Maine Gambling Control Unit (MGCU) has sent the proposed adopted rules to the Attorney General’s office for final legal checks and eventually approval.
Once approved, the Secretary of State’s office will take approximately three to five business days to post the adopted rules.
“So, I just grab that same package that everybody’s signed off on, and I just take that over to the Secretary of State’s Office,” said Milt Champion, executive director of the MGCU.
“And once they publish it for adoption, then we’re good to go. And at that point, anybody that’s submitted an application request for a temporary license, which is part of the requirement, then I will start kicking out licenses that day.”
Navigating Through Regulatory and Ethical Waters
Three of the four licensed tribes, the Mi’kmak Nation, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and the Penobscot Nation, have opted to collaborate with Caesars Sportsbook as their management service provider.
The Passamaquoddy Tribe has yet to choose an online operator partner, but it is unlikely to be also Ceasars. BetMGM has submitted an online operator application, so it is rumored that they will be second legal online sportsbook in Maine.
BetMGM has also applied for on-track-betting licenses at two Maine horse racing tracks, in Waterville and Sanford.
While wagers on national tournaments like March Madness will be permissible, outcomes for Maine-based schools, such as the University of Maine and Bowdoin College, will be off-limits to bettors. This measure aims to safeguard the integrity of local educational institutions and their sporting events.
New England Sports Betting
The introduction of sports betting is poised to be a substantial revenue generator for Maine, with projections ranging from $3.8 to $6.9 million, according to a 2017 Oxford Economics Analysis commissioned by the American Gaming Association.
Maine joins the ranks of New England states allowing legal sports wagering, alongside Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Vermont legalized sports betting this year and is expected to launch in 2024.
However, Champion says the MGCU did not pay any extra attention to their neighbors sports betting efforts, but instead looked further afield across the U.S.
“We worked our rules from six to eight other states nationwide, some of which were Colorado, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, Wyoming, and Mississippi,” he said.
Euro 2024 will be held in Germany from June 14 to July 14, 2024. We’re in the early stages of qualifications with no more than two games being played per side.
In total 24 will participate in the tournament, and 23 of those sides will come through the qualification process. As hosts, Germany automatically qualifies.
We’re a year out from one of soccer’s most important tournaments – and with lots of qualifying matches left to play – but let’s take an early look at the odds board and who’s favored to win.
Odds to Win 2024 Euro
Odds to win Euro 2024
Team
Odds
France
+500
Germany
+550
England
+600
Spain
+750
Portugal
+1000
Belgium
+1200
Italy
+1200
Netherlands
+1400
Denmark
+2000
Croatia
+3500
Odds as of June 13
Why Is France Favored to Win Euro 2024?
On an international level, the French are the second-best side. Les Bleus were runners-up at the 2022 World Cup. On that World Cup journey in Qatar, France took out some strong European opponents.
They bested Denmark 2-1 in the group stage (the Danish hold the ninth-best Euro odds), Poland in the Round of 16 by a score of 3-1 (Poland is at +5000 for Euro 2024) and then France dispatched the English 2-1 in the Quarter-Finals (England is third on Euro odds board).
Through the short qualification period, France is 2-0-0 with a +5 goal differential while keeping two clean sheets with wins over Ireland and the Netherlands.
Star power is another big factor to consider, and the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge have the biggest star of them all in Kylian Mbappe. The PSG forward has no flaws in his game and dominates at every level.
🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappe has only played in two World Cups in his illustrious career:
✅ 2018 World Cup: 👕 7 games ⚽️ 4 goals 🏆 Champions 🏅 Best YP
✅ 2022 World Cup: 👕 7 games ⚽️ 8 goals 🎯 2 assists 🥈 Runners-up 🥇 Golden Boot
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In Qatar, Mbappe scored the most goals (8), lead the tournament in goal-creating actions with 11 (five more than the next best-player) and was third for goal-creating actions per 90 (1.74). When it comes to unlocking a game there’s no better player in Europe or even the world than Mbappe.
Euro 2024 Value
France enters the tournament as slight favorites, what sides have greater value and have a chance to win instead of the favorites?
Germany
The hosts are just behind France on the oddsboard at +550. Because of their host status, we don’t have any sense of the form their in. They haven’t played any games because they don’t need to qualify.
If not for a shock 2-1 loss to Japan in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup, Germany would have likely gone much further. They bounced back from that defeat to the Blue Samurai with a 1-1 draw with a strong Spanish side before dismantling Costa Rica 4-2 to close out their tournament.
The Germans will hope that youngster Jamal Musiala builds off a strong World Cup where he was credited with 7.67 shot-creating actions per 90 and an even better 22-23 Bundesliga campaign where he scored 12 goals and had ten assists for Bayern in his 19-year-old season. The kid is only going to get much better.
England
The English are the top-ranked side in Group C of Euro qualifiers with wins over Ukraine (2-0) and Italy (2-1).
Gareth Southgate’s side is winning games they should (against Ukraine) and those where they’re second best (vs Italy). Against the Azzurri, England only had 42% of the possession and 42% of the shots, they even went down a man in the 80th minute thanks to a Luke Shaw red card and still won 2-1.
With Southgate’s contract over in December of 2024, this will likely be his final major tournament. His sides have come close to glory a few times but never won a title. Sadly for the three lions, their returns have been diminishing for the last few years.
England Under Southgate
Tournament
Finish
2018 World Cup
4th
2022 Wold Cup
6th
2020 Euro
Runner-Up
2019 UEFA Nations League
3rd
2021 UEFA Nations League
9th
2023 UEFA Nations League
15th
2024 Euro Dark horse
Every Euro tournament has its dark horse. A team comes out of nowhere and makes a deep run and upsets the landscape.
In 2020, that was the Swiss who finished third in Group A and made it to the Quarter-Finals after beating France in the Round of 16.
Who should you have your eyes on in 2024?
Netherlands
The Dutch are no strangers to this competition. They won it once in 1988 and placed third four times. That last third-place finish came in 2004.
At the 2022 World Cup, the Flying Dutchmen finished fourth with the third youngest squad in the competition. They had an average age of 26. Forward Cody Gakpo was a revelation with three goals in five matches for the Oranje in Qatar.
There’s a lot to like about Holland. At +1400, keep an eye on their qualifying.
Croatia
The Croatians are at the top of Group D with four points in two qualifiers. Remember, they finished as runners-up at the 2018 World Cup and then third in Qatar. Never discount Croatia at a major international tournament. With +3500 odds you could make $350 on a $10 bet backing them this early. That’s very tempting.
Last Five Euro Winners
Last 5 Euro Winners
Year
Team
Opening Odds
2004
Greece
+15000
2008
Spain
+450
2012
Spain
+250
2016
Portugal
+1800
2020
Italy
+700
Favorites typically win this tournament. They have deep squads overflowing with some of the most talented players in all of Europe. But every few years a dark horse goes all the way and is crowned Kings of Europe.
At +15000 Greece, and those who bet on them, haven’t yet forgotten about that tournament in 2004.
Last Five Euro Runners-Up
Last 5 Euro Runners-Up
Year
Team
Score
2004
Portugal
Lost 1-0 to Greece
2008
Germany
Lost 1-0 to Spain
2012
Italy
Lost 4-0 to Spain
2016
France
Lost 1-0 to Portugal*
2020
England
Lost 3-2 to Italy**
*After extra time **Game tied 1-1 after extra time, ended 3-2 in penalties
The Euro finals are a low-scoring affair. Over the last five tournaments, three or more goals have been scored only once. It’s worth exploring the UNDER when the Final comes up in July of 2024.
If you were to make a traditional straight-up bet, the favorite would be shown with the minus sign (-). In cases like these where there is no clear front-runner, the country with the lowest odds is the fave even if they’re all represented with the plus sign (+) which is generally used to demonstrate underdogs.
Let’s say you’ve looked at the group schedule and think Belgium is going to dominate and make it all the way to the top. A $100 bet would give you a payout of $650 – your original money is returned coupled with your winnings of $550.
Our Odds Calculator is a tool that will tell you how much you’d win based on the offered odds and amount bet.
What is a Futures Bet on the Euro Championship?
A futures bet is a wager made far in advance of a big event. Here, the bet is on the quadrennial Euro contest. It can be said that most bets are made prior to a sporting matchup, but futures can be placed weeks, months or even years in advance. In fact, as soon as the last championship is won, new odds will be released.
The odds will shift as the group stage gets closer and continue to move until right before the final is played on July 14, 2024, at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. If you see odds you like, take them to get the most value on your bets (should you win).
