A Look at the Biggest Sports Events for Sports Betting Fans

The Super Bowl is the final play-off match of the National Football League (NFL), which happens to be the most popular sports league in the US. For those who don’t know, the format of the NFL consists comprises two seasons – a three-week preseason that takes place in August and an 18-week regular season that runs from September to January.

After the completion of the regular season, the final game – the Super Bowl – takes place in February. Here, the top two sides, one from each NFL conference, compete against each other to get crowned as the NFL champion for that season.

With online betting platforms offering some of the best odds on parlay bets and other Super Bowl markets, the sporting event is popular among sports bettors. To give you an idea of how big the Super Bowl betting market is, over 23 million U.S. residents wagered more than $4 billion in the competition in 2021. And many experts expect it to rise exponentially as more and more countries legalize sports betting.

March Madness is an American annual Basketball tournament that starts in March and culminates in the first week of April. Owing to its unpredictable nature, the competition is popular among basketball fans in the U.S. and around the world.

March Madness sees 68 college basketball teams playing against each other to confirm their position in the National Championship. The tournament uses all the standard rules applicable in a college basketball game. This means it has two 20-minutes halves and an overtime period of five minutes. As you’d guess, the overtime period here is repeated until the tournament gets its final winner.

Along with basketball fans, March Madness enjoys immense popularity in the cash betting world. Last year, over 47 million people from the U.S. alone wagered on March Madness. And that number is expected to be much higher worldwide.

While horse racing isn’t as mainstream as other sports like football and rugby, it doesn’t stop bettors from wagering on the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby, featured in several sports betting documentaries, is the event of choice for many sports bettors out there.

Held in Louisville, Kentucky in May, the Kentucky Derby is a horse racing competition that takes place at the end of the Kentucky Derby Festival. Here, the top 20 horses from the Road to the Kentucky Derby series compete against each other on a 2 kilometres long track.

With the final run only lasting for around two minutes, the Kentucky Derby is often referred to as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”. What makes this sporting event so attractive to horse race bettors is the sheer number of betting options to choose from. While the maximum number of horses in most horse racing competitions is capped at seven or eight, 20 different horses are running in the Kentucky Derby.

With over 400 million fans worldwide, it’s no surprise that football is a popular sport on the planet. A major reason football enjoys such immense popularity is that it’s a global sport with several countries having their football teams. And this isn’t the case with any other sport out there.

When it comes to football, the FIFA World Cup is the biggest competition for the sport. Taking place every four years, the FIFA World Cup sees a total of 32 teams playing against each other to claim the coveted FIFA trophy. Interestingly, these final 32 teams are selected from several a set of qualifying rounds that go on for three years.

As with many other online betting games, the FIFA World Cup has hundreds of betting options. These include correct score, first goal scorer, last goal scorer, total goals, full-time result, and draw no bet, amongst others. Also, all the top online betting platforms offer some of the most competitive odds on the FIFA World Cup. So, betting on this sporting event can be quite profitable, if you get lucky. Just make sure to make use of sport betting tips and have a proper bankroll management strategy in place to improve your overall winning chances.

Grand National is a big horse racing event in Liverpool, though many sports fans may not know much about it. Held annually since 1839, the Grand National is a handicap steeplechase, meaning the horses need to jump over several fences while running on the racecourse.

 Unlike the Kentucky Derby takes place over a shorter distance, the track in the Grand National is around 4 miles long and features 30 fences in total. Nonetheless, the sporting event has all the horse racing bet types available, including the likes of single-race exotics, multi-race exotics, super high 5, exacta bets and superfecta bets.