UEFA Euro 2025 Betting Sites for South African Players (Coming Soon)

UEFA Euro 2024 Betting Sites for South African Players (Coming Soon)

Euro 2020 looks like being one of the standout sporting events of 2021, as 24 of Europe’s finest national sides battle it out for the continent’s most coveted trophy. Here at BettingTop10, we will track every kick, every goal and every injury, bringing you regular tips, previews and news stories on all the action.

To get into the spirit of watching and betting on Euro 2021, read through this guide, where we run through the best Euro 2021 betting sites, betting markets, fixtures and plenty more.

Plenty of betting sites in South Africa are covering Euro 2021. Yet with so many Euro 2021 betting options out there, how do you filter them down and stick to only the top ones?

Sports betting odds matter a lot and should be one of your key considerations. As a rule, prices on short-priced favourites don’t vary much from one site to the next. 3.00 beats 2.50, but unless you are staking big amounts, the gap won’t mean much.

Euro 2021 betting odds become far more important, though, when you back the outsiders. To illustrate, we checked the prices at just 2 well known football betting sites picked at random and found one quoting 1.000 for the biggest outsider while the other offered 2.500.

Put another way, on a R100 bet that is the gap between collecting R100,000 and R250,000. Sure, you might shrug off those prices as pointless because the rank outsider will never win, but plenty of punters said exactly that about Greece in 2004 and Denmark in 1992. On top of that, similar gaps show up across lots of other bets, with 80.00 versus 101.00 on former champions Denmark and 251.00/500.00 on dark horses Iceland.

And those are just two SA betting sites picked at random!

Bonuses are another big factor when picking the best Euro 2021 betting sites. One site might give you nothing more than an accumulator refund, while another hands out a large matched deposit bonus or even a free bet. These offers differ hugely, and each type suits a different kind of punter.

A large matched deposit bonus works well if you bet big and want a football betting site that matches you rand for rand. If you are a careful punter who plays with small stakes, though, a free bet or a no deposit bonus will probably suit you better.

• Group Outrights: You place these bets on the tournament’s group stage, which comes before the knockout round. Think of it as betting on several mini leagues, letting you back the group winner, the qualifiers and the sides that will be knocked out. Each group has four teams, and every team plays three matches.
• Final Finishing Positions: Have a gut feeling about where a certain team will end up? Reckon England will top their group and then stumble at the last hurdle in front of their home crowd, or sense that this is France’s year? These Euro 2021 betting markets let you back the exact finishing spot of the team you fancy.
• Match Betting Markets: In South Africa, the markets for each individual match are the most widely used. Punters put their money on the Win/Lose/Draw market for every one of the over 50 games played during the tournament.
• Over/Under: Over/Under markets rank among the favourites for single matches as well as for the Outright markets. They let you bet on whether the number of cards, goals or corners will be higher or lower than the handicap.

Want something a little different from Euro 2021 betting markets? Try a few of these.

• Most Cards: Which side will be the least disciplined and pick up the most cards during the tournament? It is a tough one to call, as you are stuck between backing the big nations who go deep and play more matches and the teams who might go out early but tend to collect more cards per match.
• Most Goals: Much like the “Most Cards” bet, this market lets you back the team that will net the most goals in the group stage, the knockout stage or across the entire tournament. It pays to study not only a team’s players but also who they play and the defences they are likely to face.
• Over/Under Penalties: Will this tournament be packed with penalties or not? Euro 2021 happens to be the first European Championships to use VAR. That should make a big difference, but whether it cuts the number of penalties or pushes it up is your call.
• New Winner: Many top nations have lifted the Euros over the years, along with a handful of surprise champions. This Euro soccer betting market asks you to bet on whether a first time champion will emerge or a previous winner will take the trophy back.

Bafana Bafana won’t be there, but there are still loads of quality teams to back. Soccer fans all over South Africa will be choosing their favourites, picking sides and then getting their bets on. Outright Euro 2021 betting markets let you bet on a range of outcomes, such as:

• Winner: Back the side you expect to lift the trophy, whether that is one of the favourites, a co-host or an outsider hunting its first taste of glory on the grandest stage.
• Top Goalscorer: Over the years this prize has been claimed by some of Europe’s finest players. Platini owns the record for the most goals scored in one tournament, while the honour has also gone to stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Alan Shearer, Gerd Muller and David Villa.
• Best Player: The leading scorer isn’t always the best player, and this prize has been handed to plenty of the game’s legends. It usually goes to someone who reaches the final, though, so bear that in mind as you browse the Euro 2021 betting markets.
• Best Goalkeeper: The Golden Glove goes to the keeper who performs best over the whole tournament. With so many gifted shot-stoppers on display (Neuer, Lloris, de Gea, ter Stegen), this market is far from easy to call.

The best betting strategy for making money on Euro 2021 betting markets in ZA is to focus on accumulators. They let you stake small amounts while chasing big odds. You place fewer bets at lower stakes, cutting your exposure while boosting what you could win.

The typical soccer fan in ZA can call the results of a few matches at once, and the great thing about accumulators is that getting those calls right pays out far more than backing each match separately.

That said, don’t throw extra legs onto your accumulator purely to bump up the payout. Only include selections you genuinely believe in rather than adding them for the sake of it. Betting sites are full of busted accumulators and hard luck stories from punters who tacked on a “dead-cert” to boost the odds, only for that one leg to let them down.

Euro 2021 gets underway on Friday, June 11th. Turkey take on Italy in the opening match in Rome, and there will be several fixtures every day after that until the group stage wraps up on June 23th.

These are the key dates to remember:

• June 11: First Game
• June 26: Round of 16
• July 2 and July 3: Quarter-Finals
• July 6 and July 7: Semi-Finals
• July 11 = Final