Rich English Football: Perfect Betting Opportunities outside the English Premier League

It is not a secret that the most bettors deal with the upper football divisions only. As a rule, it is explained by the fact that they do not want to spend their time and efforts conducting necessary research in order to have the perfect knowledge of a new betting market. This attitude, however, can deprive them of excellent opportunities to benefit from some niche markets. So, the given article is going to describe the English Football Championship from a betting point of view.

Introducing the Championship

As we know, the Championship is the second league in the system of the English football. In comparison with other non-top leagues in Europe, the Championship is considered to be the richest one that witnesses the highest attendance volumes. Even this statistical information solely can make numerous gamblers pay their attention to the given competition.

As distinguished from the English Premier League, the Championship comprises 24 teams that are to play against one another twice over a single season. As a result, each team has to play 46 games – 23 at home and 23 away.

Each Championship season is followed by such phenomena:

1. Promotion;
2. Relegation;
3. European Qualification.

As we know, three clubs from the Championship are promoted to the English Premier League after the end of the seasons. If everything is clear with two places that are occupied by teams that finish the season first and second (winner and runner-up, correspondingly), the third promotional place is decided via play-offs.

The play-off is played among the teams that occupy the places from the third to the sixth. The teams then form two Semi-Final matches. After them, the winners decide the faith of the EPL permit in the Play-Off Final.

A similar state of affairs is with the relegation. This time, it refers to the worst teams of the league. Thus, the teams from 22nd, 23rd, and 24th places move to League One, while their places in the Championship are occupied by the corresponding teams from League One.

As for the European Qualification, there are extremely small chances for Championship teams to qualify. According to the rules of the competition, no Championship position can provide teams with the opportunities to participate in a European football tournament. However, such chances appear if a team playing in the Championship manages to win the Football League Cup or the FA Cup. Here, we should understand that it is extremely difficult for a Championship club to win these trophies.

Championship Betting

According to everything mentioned above, it is not a surprise that more and more gamblers start dealing with Championship every year. That is why there are some wagers that can happen to be rather beneficial when it comes to betting on this market. Thus, they are:

• Championship winner betting;
• Championship promotion betting;
• Both teams to score;
• Various kinds of Over/Under betting;
• 1X2 betting.