Champions League Betting

Champions League Betting – Everything You Need to Know

The Champions League is the most-prestigious club competition in European football and features some of the greatest teams from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and more. 

So whether it’s a group game, a knockout encounter or the final itself, you know for certain that you’ll always be watching the best of the best. That is what makes Champions League betting so thrilling. 

There are two types of betting for Champions League games: 

1. Match
2. Outright

Match Betting

Match betting covers everything you can bet on during a game, with bets placed either pre-match (before the game kicks off) or in-play (once the game has kicked off). 

There are literally hundreds of match betting markets for every single Champions League game, with some of the most popular ones including:

1. Win/Draw/Win
2. Both Teams To Score
3. Correct Score
4. Over/Under Total Goals
5. First Goalscorer
6. Anytime Goalscorer

Outright Betting

Outright betting covers everything that will happen over the course of the season, with some of the most popular ones including:

1. Outright Winner
2. To Reach The Final
3. To Reach The Semi-Finals
4. Group Winner
5. Group To Qualify
6. Player Top Goalscorer

Find the Best Champions League Betting Sites in UK

Champions League betting is available on all of the best Champions League betting sites in the UK, with many offering attractive welcome bonuses to encourage new customers to bet with them.

With so many betting sites to choose from, it’s worth looking around to see which ones have the best Champions League odds. Betting.com has reliable and comprehensive reviews to help locate the best Champions League betting sites in the UK.

How We Rate Betting Sites for Champions League

We only work with reputable betting sites and we pride ourselves on writing reviews that are honest, reliable and trustworthy.

We rate betting sites for the Champions League according to several different criteria, which are: 

• Bonus Offers
• Sports Offers
• Betting Markets
• Odds
• Live Betting
• Mobile App
• Design/Navigation
• Reputation/Reliability

Each betting site is rated out of 10 for each criteria, helping to explain their pros and cons.

You can read our reviews on the Champions League bookmakers here.

More About Champions League Betting

There are 125 Champions League games per season, with literally hundreds of Champions League betting markets available for each one. So whether it’s a glorious night at the Bernabeu, the San Siro or Anfield, not a single kick, header or moment is missed.

It’s always worth placing your bets pre-match, but after kick-off is when Champions League betting really gets interesting.

That’s when it’s time for in-play betting, which allows you to bet on the game as the action unfolds, with the live odds changing in real time.

Traditional match betting markets such as Win/Draw/Win are available in-play, but there are also markets that are unique to in-play betting, including popular ones such as:

1. Next Team To Score
2. Next Player To Score
3. Next Player To Be Carded
4. Next Team To Win A Corner

Champions League Tips & Predictions

‘These are the champions!’ The competition with the greatest clubs and players in sport also boasts one of its most iconic anthems. And regardless of who is playing – it could be Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Liverpool or Chelsea – when the music starts, you know you’re about to watch the most exciting football in the world.

And while you can never guarantee the outcome of a game – Champions League betting wouldn’t be much fun if you could – you can give your bets the best possible chance of success by reading our Champions League tips and predictions, with preview articles published on betting.com every single day.

Check out our Champions League tips & predictions page to learn more about this prestigious football competition.

Champions League Odds

Champions League odds are calculated on the probability of something happening.

But just because something is likely to happen doesn’t mean that it’s actually going to happen.

Who can forget Liverpool winning the trophy in 2004/05? Losing 3-0 at half time in the final, their Champions League odds to win the trophy were 188/1. That means that if you’d placed a £10 bet on them to win the Champions League at that time, you would have won £1,880.

Champions League odds for individual games, meanwhile, are often very short, especially during the group stages, so a smart way of increasing them is through accumulator betting.

More commonly known as an ‘acca’, accumulator betting is when you bet on two or more Champions League games – five games is called ‘a five-fold’ – but combine them into one bet. Head over to Betting.com’s free acca bet calculator to work out the bet fast.

Because the odds are multiplied, you’ll win an enhanced amount if all the selections in your acca are correct.

Check out our Champions League odds page to learn more about this prestigious football competition.

Champions League 2022/23 Overview

The Champions League 2022/23 will be played from Tuesday 6th September 2022 to Saturday 10th June 2023.

The competition will once again be made up of 32 teams, with each team drawn into eight groups of four and playing the other two teams in the group at home and away, with games scheduled to take place between September and November.

The eight group winners and runners-up will progress to the two-legged knockout stages, to be played in early 2023. The two teams who make it through the second round, quarter-finals and semi-finals will then meet in the Champions League final, to be played at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, in June.

• Real Madrid head into this year’s competition as the defending champions, having beaten Liverpool in the final last season. That was their fifth success in the last nine years and extended their lead at the top of the Champions League’s all-time winners’ list with 14.
• Liverpool, meanwhile, will be especially motivated to make it back to the final, which will be played at the same stadium that hosted their remarkable comeback against AC Milan in 2005, which they won on penalties having trailed 3-0 at half time.
• Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain will be hoping that this is finally the year they win the Champions League for the first time, with both mega-rich teams having been beaten finalists in previous seasons. Recent winners Bayern Munich and Chelsea are also likely to contend.

In terms of players, Champions League superstars such as Karim Benzema, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Robert Lewandowski will once again compete to be the competition’s top goalscorer. One player who definitely won’t win that individual prize, however, is Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo is the Champions League’s all-time leading scorer, but his club Manchester United failed to qualify for this year’s competition.

Champions League Winners of the Last Seasons

• 2021/22 – Real Madrid
• 2020/21 – Chelsea
• 2019/20 – Bayern Munich
• 2018/19 – Liverpool
• 2017/18 – Real Madrid
• 2016/17 – Real Madrid
• 2015/16 – Real Madrid
• 2014/15 – Barcelona

Champions League 2022/23 Competing Teams

Season start-end: 6^th September 2022 – 10^th June 2023

All teams and their home stadiums

• Chelsea, Stamford Bridge
• Liverpool, Anfield
• Manchester City, Etihad Stadium
• Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Atletico Madrid, Metropolitano Stadium
• Barcelona, Camp Nou
• Real Madrid, Bernabeu
• Sevilla, Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium
• Inter Milan, San Siro
• Juventus, Allianz Stadium
• AC Milan, San Siro
• Napoli, Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
• Bayern Munich, Allianz Arena
• Borussia Dortmund, Signal Iduna Park
• Eintracht Frankfurt, Deutsche Bank Park
• RB Leipzig, Red Bull Arena
• Bayer Leverkusen, BayArena
• Marseille, Orange Velodrome
• Paris Saint-Germain, Parc des Princes
• Porto, Estadio do Dragao
• Sporting CP, Jose Alvalade Stadium
• Ajax, Johan Cruijff ArenA
• Club Brugge, Jan Breydel Stadium
• Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Arena
• Glasgow Celtic, Celtic Park
• Shakhtar Donetsk, National Sports Complex

Reigning Champions: Real Madrid

Champions League Summary

Thirty-two teams. More than 100 games. Literally thousands of pre-game and in-play betting markets. Oh, and an incredible pre-match anthem. There is a reason the Champions League is one of the elite football competitions to bet on. And with 2022/23 shaping up to be one of the finest seasons in Champions League history, make sure to follow it every step of the way on betting.com.