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Betting on football can be a fun way of enhancing your enjoyment of the beautiful game whilst also giving you a chance to win a bet on the sport you love. Of course, not everyone wins (or bookies would have long since gone bust) so it pays to pick your bets wisely, and that means doing your research rather than making impulse selections.<\/p>\n

People who are looking for an online or mobile betting site to start betting with are in luck, because on this website we feature only the best betting sites in the business. We’re not interested in listing every tom, dick and harry who’s set up an online sportsbook, instead, we work only with those bookies that are universally trusted to offer fair odds, great customer service, and regular generous free bets and bonuses.<\/p>\n

So, before you place your first online or mobile football bet, you need to decide which betting site you would like to join.<\/p>\n

How to Join a Football Betting Site<\/h2>\n

There are literally hundreds of betting sites scattered across the internet these days, and many offer a similar level of quality and service that is… well, fairly average on both counts. In order to avoid spending your days arguing about cancelled bets, late payouts, or crashed betting markets, we urge you to join only the most established bookmakers in the business. Of course, whether or not you choose to take our recommendations on board is your call, but always make sure you know about the company you are joining before you join and check that they are regulated by the UK Gambling Commission – any bookie on this site will be.<\/p>\n

Almost all bookies will offer some kind of enhancement when you join them, usually in the form of a free bet (see our free bets<\/a> page for more details). Free bets\u00a0allow you to try out a bookie without having to risk as much of your own cash as you otherwise would.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve selected the bookie you’d like to join, just click on the banner or link on this site which will take you to the betting site in question. Once there, click the “Register” (or similar) button.<\/p>\n

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You will then be asked to enter some personal details, i.e. your name, date of birth (you need to be over 18 to gamble in the UK), address, and username and password details that you are free to make up. The form takes only a minute or so to complete, and then you will be ready to register a payment option, such as a debit card, to make your first deposit.<\/p>\n

Depositing is just like buying anything online really, but the amount you deposit will depend on how much you want to bet, and might affect the free bet offer you are hoping to take advantage of. For instance, if you are signing up to a “Bet \u00a35, get \u00a320 Free Bet”\u00a0offer, you would probably just want to deposit a fiver to get things going.<\/p>\n

Once you have some funds in your betting account, it’s time to actually place your first bet… and let’s hope it’s a winner!<\/p>\n

How to Place a Bet<\/h2>\n

To place a bet you first need to navigate to the sport, event, or competition you wish to bet on and then select the specific betting market. For example, if you wanted to bet on both teams to score in a match between Burnley and Chelsea, you would generally select “Football”, then “Premier League”, then “Burnley v Chelsea”, and then find the “Both Teams to Score” market. In reality most bookies will have quick links to big upcoming matches, popular leagues or markets, so you might even find yourself looking at the market you want on the home screen.<\/p>\n

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The odds will then be displayed for all possible outcomes on which you can bet, usually in fractional form as standard (e.g. 5\/1, 5\/4 and so on) although you can change to decimal form (e.g. 6.0, 1.8 etc) if you prefer. You simply need to click on the odds of the selection you want to back and it will populate the betting slip, which is usually located on the top right of the screen on desktops or at the top or bottom on mobile betting sites. Do’t worry if you can’t see it initially, once you make a selection it will make itself known.<\/p>\n

You then just click on “Place Bet” (or something similar) at the bottom of the betting slip, and sometimes a further “Confirm Bet(s)” button to avoid any accidents, and there you have it, your bet is placed.<\/p>\n

The above example of backing both teams to score is known as a “single” bet, i.e. just a single event occurring, but there are loads of different types of bets you can place, as we go into below.<\/p>\n

Types of Football Bet<\/h2>\n

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The world of online football betting holds a myriad of possibilities and betting opportunities, and this can be confusing to even the most experienced punter. As such, we thought we would explain some of the ways customers can bet on the football to maximise the potential return, boost enjoyment, and hopefully clear up any doubts you may have.<\/p>\n