Exploring Unique Football Betting Markets: Top 10 Alternatives

Exploring Unique Football Betting Markets: Top 10 Alternatives

Punters have access to several betting markets irrespective of the sport the punter places the bet. The football betting market has the most different stakes and alternative football betting markets. Instead of making a wager on the result of a game, a punter can potentially cause a profit by placing bets based on other essential game statistics and metrics such as goals, assists, corners, set pieces, penalties, and more.

10 Alternative Football Betting Markets

Some of the different types of alternative football betting markets include BTTS, the potential of a player getting carded, victory margin, specific player to score, to come from behind, penalties,

1. BTTS

BTTS (Both teams to score) is a betting market that makes a wager on both participating teams scoring at least a goal each. If the game ends in any result above 1-1, then the punter wins the bet. A punter loses the wager if one of the teams fails to score, i.e. any scoreline with 0 loses a BTTS wager.

2. Yellow/Red Cards

A punter can bet on a particular player to get carded during 90-minutes of professional play. If a player receives a card after the game, it counts as a card acquired. Card wagers work best on players with existing disciplinary records, defensive midfielders, and defenders.

3. Victory Margin

The victory margin in a football game is the difference in goals scored between both teams. A punter wager that one team will achieve more goals than another by precisely 1 or 3 goals. The punter can also place a bet on the game ending in a 0-0 or 4-4 draw. The victory margin betting market is one of the more challenging betting markets to predict consistently accurately.

4. Player To Score

A punter can bet on a specific player scoring a goal during regulation 90 minutes in a football game. Players in form and strikers have a higher probability of scoring a goal than other players, which is a factor in the player's score. A punter can also club a player to achieve with the same team to win, which means both conditions need to win for the wager to payout.

5. Come From Behind

To come from behind is to make a wager on a specific team to come from behind after conceding goals in a game. A punter can place a come from behind chance before starting a game or as an in-game wager. For the bet to pay, a punter needs to fulfil two conditions: the team to come from behind has to concede first, and then the team has to outscore their opponents to come from behind officially.

6. Pens

Pens or penalties are wagers on players or teams to win a penalty or score from a penalty. A player has a high probability of scoring a penalty because it creates a fixed-play with just the keeper and one opponent. Teams generally assign one or two players to take penalties for a team, and punters can make wagers on those specific players for penalty wagers.

7. Corners

Attacking teams tend to win more corners, while defensive teams usually concede more corners. A punter can make a wager on the corner betting market on a specific group to win above a certain number of corners or for the total game to produce over/under a certain number of corners.

8. Asian Handicap

The Asian handicap betting market used by punters is looking to make a wager on the outcome of a game between two evenly matched teams. One of the key features of Asian handicap wagers is the possibility of eliminating draws which makes the Asian handicap betting market extremely popular among football punters.

9. FTTS

FTTS is the first team to score and is a wager on the team which has a higher probability of scoring first in a game. If the team wagered on scores the first goal in the game, then even the game's outcome has no impact on the payout of an FTTS wager.

10. Acca

Acca wagers or accumulator wagers combine multiple bets into a single chance. A punter needs to correctly predict all the outcomes of the Acca to win the wager. The payout on Acca wagers is some of the highest compared to other betting markets.