Whilst football is recognised as easily the most famous team sport on earth, drawing television audiences of billions to its major events, relatively few football fans take the chance to put their football expertise to the test by taking part in football betting.

For many football fans, being a supporter is focused on backing one club for life, however football betting enables you to add excitement to neutral matches by backing the club you rate as strongest. And if your team isn’t on a good run of form, placing a bet on the opposition can offer some consolation when your team loses.

Online betting is probably the best ways to get involved in football betting. Most online sportsbooks offer a huge selection of football bets from the world’s top leagues, throughout the year. What’s more, an online account could be set up in just a matter of minutes, giving you virtually instant access to football betting markets.

Here are just some of the hottest football betting options:

Match betting – match betting is the simplest type of football betting. It involves betting on the results of a match, with each outcome priced at specific odds. It is possible to bet on a team or perhaps a draw. Usually the betting slip will carry the name of 1 team under ‘away’ and the other under ‘home’.

When doing match betting you may also vote on a handicap bet which basically gives one team a one goal advantage or disadvantage before the game has even started. You then bet on the outcome according to a normal match bet.

Score betting – score betting describes a variety of betting options. The easiest is predicting the final score of a match, and tends to carry very high odds.

Another popular score betting option involves betting on who’ll score an objective. These bets carry high odds and come in several varieties including: first goal scorer, last goal scorer and anytime goal scorer.

Special bets – every football game will carry a multitude of additional betting opportunities, with each online bookmaker offering their very own game specials. Literally every part of the game attracts odds, ranging from the amount of corners in the game, to which players will be injured. These bets often carry a few of the highest odds.

Result Sdy betting – if you’re a big picture punter you’ll enjoy tournament betting. Betting opportunities range between picking group and pool winners, picking the tournament winner and predicting the number of goals a team will score in the competition. The limits to your tournament betting opportunities are defined only by the bookmaker’s imagination!