Half Time/Full Time Betting
Premier League Half-Time / Full-Time results shows that matches often follow the early trend, with Home/Home (1/1) being the most common outcome at 66 games. This highlights the strength of home favourites who take control early and maintain it after the break.
However, draws at half-time are extremely common, with over a third of matches level at the interval. Outcomes such as Draw/Home (X/1) and Draw/Draw (X/X) together account for a significant portion of results, suggesting value can often be found in teams that improve in the second half.
Away-led matches at half-time are comparatively rare, particularly Away/Home (2/1) and Away/Draw (2/X), reinforcing how difficult it is for away sides to dominate early and then lose control. Overall, the data supports a cautious approach to HT/FT betting, with the strongest value typically appearing in Home/Home and Draw-based combinations rather than high-risk turnaround outcomes.
Half-time/Full-time Betting Guide
Instead of betting on who you think will win the match, you place a bet on who will be winning at half-time and who will be winning at full-time. Half Time/Full-Time betting is a super way to boost your odds and is ultimately a match result bet split into two.
Therefore, you have to predict two things in order to win the bet.
- The winner at half-time (or a draw)
- The winner at full time (or draw)
Should you not predict one of these aspects of the bet, your wager fails.
As an example, here’s one of the craziest results in the Premier League – Arsenal 4-0 at half time, 4-4 draw at full time.
There are nine different outcomes to this, so it naturally has much better odds than a match result bet, where there can be only three possible outcomes. These are:
- Home/Home
- Home/Draw
- Home/Away
- Draw/Home
- Draw/Draw
- Draw/Away
- Away/Home
- Away/Draw
- Away/Away
For Example:
Let’s say you were betting on Chelsea v Manchester United
The match result odds might look a little like this…
- Chelsea – 7/10
- Draw – 29/10
- Manchester United – 19/5
If you fancied backing Chelsea, the odds wouldn’t be particularly great for this, so you may wish to look at the Half Time/Full Time market. This would look a little like this…
- Chelsea/Chelsea – 4/1
- Chelsea/Draw – 5/1
- Chelsea/Manchester United – 11/1
- Draw/Chelsea – 10/3
- Draw/Draw – 4/1
- Draw/Manchester United – 9/1
- Manchester United/Chelsea – 17/1
- Manchester United/Draw – 10/1
- Manchester United/Chelsea – 18/1
You’ll find much better odds with this market on Chelsea winning the match, but you must delve a little deeper in how the game will play out.
So if you think the Blues will get an early goal, it may be worth the 4/1 on them to win both halves. If you think it’ll be a slow burner with Chelsea grabbing a late winner, you may wish to back the Draw/Chelsea.
Either way, you’ll get better odds on a winner than you would simply backing a match result.
Where Can I Play Half-Time/Full-Time Betting?
Most online and mobile bookmakers will offer the Half Time/Full Time market nowadays, with almost every major app having a section within the fixture’s markets.
Sports You Can Play Half Time/Full Time Bets
It isn’t just football in which Half-Time/Full-Time betting is popular, no it’s enjoyed across a range of sports in order to boost odds.
Basically, any sport which is split into halves, or even quarters, can be bet on in this way. The NFL is a prime example of the latter, but that increases the odds further, as well as the risk, too.
Below you’ll find a full list of sports in which you can play Half Time/Full-Time betting…
- Football
- Rugby League
- Rugby Union
- Hockey
- Hurling
- NFL
- NBA
- Ice Hockey
- Gaelic Football
- Lacrosse
- Australian Rules