Soccer Betting Strategies for Major Tournaments

Building soccer betting strategies for major tournaments is a great way to back your team and your favourite player in the most popular football competitions worldwide. If a decade ago you were limited in options to place wagers on major soccer tournaments, today the bookies offer a wide range of selections.

Soccer major tournaments are the biggest sports competitions worldwide. Despite other sports and competitions increasing in popularity like the NFL or NBA, the Champions League final and the latest World Cup played in Qatar, when Messi settled the GOAT debate once and for all, smashing all the attendance and audience records.

Euro 2024 soccer betting strategies

With the Euro 2024 approaching fast, I decided to give you a few soccer betting strategies for the major tournament held in Germany this summer. However, before going into further details, I will show three different strategies you can use to place bets on the most popular betting markets, such as:

• to win outright
• to win the group
• top goalscorer

Although there are many other options available to back your favourite team and player, the type of selections I mentioned above have the best potential to return a profit.

Soccer betting strategy for outright bets

To win outright is anticipated to be one of the most popular bets used by punters for the EURO 2024. While some gamblers like to back their national team despite their low chances of success, others are more realistic and back the tournament’s favourites.

Because the competition is very high with at least a couple of national teams being seen as favourites to lift the trophy, wagering all your money on a team to win has a low chance of success. However, placing multiple outright bets gives you more chances to succeed.

According to bookies, England, France and Germany, in this order, are the teams with the highest chances of becoming the Euro 2024 winners. By examining the offer from the above screenshot, I suggest you divide your budget for this pick and place three single bets with the same stake.

For example: if you have 300 units, wagering 100 units on each team will return a profit, regardless of who will win the trophy. Of course, if any team outside the three is crowned Euro 2024 winner, you lose your bet, as you would have if you placed all the money on any of the teams mentioned above.

Back top teams to win the group

Top teams are well known to dominate their group and qualify in the knockout phase. Germany, England, France, Belgium and Portugal are all expected to dominate and qualify in the next phase as group winners. Although a single bet is not of much value in this case, placing an Accumulator is the way to go.

Building a 5-fold ACCA by backing the tournament’s best teams to win their group will greatly enhance total odds to 6.04. However, I don’t recommend wagering too much money since you have five selections in a single bet. There have been instances when top teams failed to progress in the knockout phase by finishing 3rd in their group.

Furthermore, if you decide to place a larger portion of your bankroll, I advise you to take out one or two teams and stick to a 3-fold or 4-fold ACCA.

Predict the tournament’s top goalscorer

French superstar Kylian Mbappe and English ace Harry Kane are expected to battle for Euro’s 2024 Golden Boot. Furthermore, Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo is credited with the 3rd chance to edge Kane and Mbappe, following his impressive season at Al Nassr when he smashed all records.

Still, keep in mind  the following important factors that may influence the outcome of the top goalscorer:

• the player might get injured and end his playing time or miss a few matches in the tournament
• when a team is already qualified from the group stage, the manager tends to rest his best players
• make sure the top goalscorer you back is also the main penalty taker in the squad

Likewise, I recommend you keep the Win Outright strategy by spreading your bets. Place higher stake bets on Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane and lower stake wagers on Cristiano Ronaldo and Jude Bellingham. However, be precise in calculating the stakes so that any outcome returns a profit.

Use special betting markets for higher odds

If you like placing high-risk bets you can try other types of bets. However, since some of these outcomes are difficult to predict, I recommend using just a fraction of your bankroll. Some of these bet types are:

• winner and top goalscorer: in this bet, you predict the winner of the tournament and the top goalscorer (England & Harry Kane with a 15x return is the most probable outcome according to bookies)
• most assists: players like Bruno Fernandes, and Kevin de Bruyne are favourites
• stage of elimination: you have to predict in which stage (group phase, semifinal etc) the team leaves the competition
• finish bottom of the group: select here weaker teams that were placed in a tough group against top opponents
• highest scoring group: Group A and Group D could be good options here
• team exact group points: choose groups of top teams like France, England, Portugal, and Germany to reign supreme with 4 wins

You can apply the same tips from this tutorial to place different bets at the Euro 2024 like bookings, corners, HT-FT, over/under, Asian Handicaps and many more. Also, use a betting strategy like Paroli to protect your bankroll and enhance potential winnings. Also, use the same pattern for other major tournaments like the Copa America or Copa Libertadores.

Furthermore, using in-play betting will give you a higher value to explore. For example, placing a wager on Harry Kane to score 25 minutes before the final whistle compared to a pre-match bet will have a significantly higher return. Remember to gamble responsibly by using all soccer betting strategies for major tournaments presented here.