In the 2024/2025 season of the Champions League, the previous four-team groups were replaced by a large table, and the number of teams in the main table increased from 32 to 36. Each team plays eight matches in the group stage, and this renewal offers more matches, excitement and more betting opportunities than before to the sports bookmakers, who in recent weeks, in addition to the fights of the five top leagues, have also bet more often on the most high-quality matches in Europe.
From a few thousand to millions
According to Zoltán Horváth, head of sports betting at Szerencsejáték Zrt, the first round of the Champions League received four times as many bets on the BL as on the matches of the Spanish championship and the Premier League. On the Tippmixpro, celebrating its one-year birthday, the most watched match in the first round was Monaco-Barcelona, in the second round the Lille-Real Madrid match, while in the third round the Barcelona-Bayern Munich rally stirred the imagination of punters the most. After three rounds on the Tippmix, the players consider defending champion Real Madrid the most likely to win the final. The royal guard is followed by Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Arsenal. Dominik Szoboszlai’s team, Liverpool, is in sixth place in the ranking.
– You can bet on Szoboszlai on the goals and assists list. You can bet at 450 times the odds for the BL goal scorer and 30 times the odds for the assist king – revealed Zoltán Horváth, who says that due to the extra betting functions, bettors have more opportunities to win bigger prizes. their tips.
– Hungarian sports bettors make more and more conscious decisions, and many prefer to play it safe. There was someone who won 1.4 million out of HUF 4,700 because he used the option of early payment, said the sports betting manager on Friday morning.
They also bet on Fradi
On Tippmixpro, which is celebrating its first birthday, and on Tippmix, players can choose from up to nine hundred markets within a BL match on the online interface, to which hundreds of live betting options are connected.
– Betting options for player indicators are also very popular. Scorer, assist, shots on goal from outside or inside the penalty area, number of yellow cards. Also, many people like the option that both teams score – Zoltán Horváth revealed details about the most popular markets.
– Ferencváros is also increasingly successful in international cups, and thus many people bet on the matches of the most popular Hungarian club. After two defeats, 32 percent of punters predicted a victory for the Hungarian champions who won last night against Nice. According to fifty percent of them, they will advance in the EL and expect at least eight points in the remaining matches – added the head of sports betting, who then highlighted that, thanks to the Hungarian regulations, the number of international service providers offering unlicensed sports betting has significantly decreased in our country. As a result, a clean and regulated market means equal conditions for market participants.
– Since the summer of 2023, there have been two legal players in the online sports betting market. Responding to the competitive situation, Tippmixpro, which was renewed last year, is on par with the biggest international players in terms of range, functions and gaming experience. In the future, the development of many functions that will further increase the betting experience and provide additional opportunities is expected, Zoltán Horváth revealed.
V-sport is also popular
Another dynamically expanding product of domestic sports betting is Virtual betting (V-sport), whose popularity among players is increasing.
– V-Sport is independent of the season of team sports. A fast-paced game type that can be bet at any time, in which football is the most popular sport, followed by basketball, tennis and baseball. Especially the weekdays are stronger here – said the sports betting manager of Szerencsejáték Zrt, who said that there was already a bettor who won HUF 1.7 million with a V-sports ticket. Sports betting accounts for nearly two-thirds of the national lottery company’s sales revenue, of which V-sport accounts for about ten percent.
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
