Markets guide

Football prediction markets, explained

A market is simply a question a match can answer: who wins, how many goals, do both teams score? This guide explains every major market in plain words. FP Football Predictions publishes daily tips on the score-based markets — the ones an honest record can settle automatically from the final score — and marks them below.

Match result markets

The oldest question in football: who wins? These markets settle on the final result.

In our daily tips: home win, draw, away win, double chance.

Match result: home win, draw or away win at full time.
Double chance: two outcomes in one pick: home or draw, draw or away, or either team to win.
Win (draw void): a win pick where a draw cancels the prediction instead of losing it.
To qualify: which team goes through to the next round, however the tie is decided.
Half-time result: the leader at the break.
Half-time / full-time: the leader at the break and the winner at the end, as one pick.
Winning margin: by how many goals the winner wins.
Result after extra time: the outcome once the extra 30 minutes are played.
Penalty shootout winner: who holds their nerve from the spot.

Goals markets

Predictions about how many goals a match produces, regardless of who scores them.

In our daily tips: over/under from 0.5 to 4.5 goals, goal bands, team to score.

Over/under 0.5–4.5: whether the total goal count clears a line such as 1.5 or 2.5.
Asian goal totals: quarter-goal lines (over 2.25) that split a prediction across two lines.
Team total goals: an over/under line for one team only.
First-half goals: the goal count before the break.
Second-half goals: the goal count after it.
Goal bands: the total lands inside a range, such as 2–3 goals.
Exact total goals: the precise number of goals in the match.
Correct score: the exact final scoreline.
Team to score in both halves: one team finds the net before and after the break.
Highest-scoring half: which 45 minutes produce more goals.

Both teams to score

The “GG” family: do both sides find the net?

In our daily tips: GG, NG, and GG combined with over 2.5 goals or a winner.

Both teams to score (GG): both sides score at least once.
Not both to score (NG): at least one side keeps a clean sheet.
GG and match result: both score and your pick wins.
GG and over/under: both score and the total clears (or stays under) a goals line.
Both score in both halves: both sides score in each half — rare and spectacular.

Handicap markets

A virtual head start evens up a mismatch: the favourite must overcome it, the underdog defends it.

European handicap: whole-goal head start; a draw on the adjusted score is its own outcome.
Asian handicap: half- and quarter-goal lines with no draw outcome.
Three-way handicap: home, draw or away on the adjusted score.
Half handicaps: the same idea applied to one half only.
Corner or card handicap: head starts counted in corners or cards instead of goals.

Goal timing markets

Not just how many goals — when they arrive and who delivers them.

First / last / anytime scorer: which player opens, closes or simply gets on the scoresheet.
Next scorer: who scores the next goal, picked while the match runs.
Team to score first or last: which side opens or closes the scoring.
First goal time: the window in which the opener lands.
Goal in each half: at least one goal both before and after the break.
Goal in a time interval: a goal inside a set window, such as the first 10 minutes.
No goal: the brave call: 0-0.

Corners markets

Pressure measured in flags: teams that attack down the wings pile up corners.

Total corners over/under: the combined corner count against a line.
Team corners: one side’s corner count.
Half corners: corners before or after the break.
Race to 3, 5, 7 or 10: which team reaches a corner count first.
First or last corner: who earns the opening or closing flag.
Exact corners / most corners: the precise count, or simply which side earns more.

Cards and discipline

For the matches where the story is tackles, tempers and the referee’s pocket.

Total cards over/under: the combined booking count against a line.
Red card shown: yes or no: does anyone walk?
Player carded / sent off: a named player goes in the book, or worse.
First player booked: who the referee cautions first.
Team cards / most cards: one side’s count, or which side collects more.
Penalty awarded: yes or no: a spot kick in the match.

Player performance markets

Predictions about a single player’s afternoon, from goals to tackles.

Player to score or assist: a goal contribution of either kind.
Player shots / shots on target: how often a player lets fly, and how accurately.
Player passes, tackles, fouls: volume stats for midfield engines and enforcers.
Player to be booked: a named player sees yellow.
Goalkeeper saves: how busy the keeper will be.
Scorer plus correct score: a named scorer and the exact final score, in one pick.

Team performance markets

Which side dominates the stat sheet, beyond the scoreline.

In our daily tips: win to nil.

Clean sheet: a team concedes nothing.
Win to nil: win the match and concede nothing.
Most possession / shots / shots on target: who controls the ball and creates more.
Most fouls, offsides, throw-ins, free kicks: the grittier side of domination.
To hit the woodwork: post or bar rattled.
To miss a penalty: a spot kick goes begging.

Half and period markets

Whole-match markets, shrunk to 45 minutes.

Half-time result / double chance: the leader at the break, or two outcomes covered.
Half over/under and GG: goals lines and both-to-score inside one half.
Second-half result: who wins the half after the break, ignoring the first.
Half-time correct score: the exact score at the break.
Team to win either half: a team takes at least one of the two halves.
Most goals in a half: which half out-scores the other.

Combination markets

Two or three calls on the same match rolled into one prediction — bolder, and harder to land.

In our daily tips: winner + GG, winner + goals line, GG + over 2.5.

Result and over/under: the winner plus a total-goals line.
Result and GG: the winner plus both teams scoring.
Double chance and goals: two results covered plus a goals line.
Correct score and GG: the exact score with both sides on the scoresheet.
Same-match combinations: custom multi-part predictions built from one fixture.

Tournament and long-term markets

Season-long calls that settle in May, not at full time.

League or tournament winner: who lifts the trophy.
Top goalscorer / top assists: the season’s sharpest finisher or creator.
Top-four finish: a place among the elite — and the football that comes with it.
Promotion and relegation: who climbs a division, who drops.
To reach the final / qualify from a group: how deep a run goes.

Statistics, not gambling

FP Football Predictions is a football statistics app. You can’t place wagers in it and we don’t take or broker them — our tips are predictions, every one settled against the real final score and shown in an honest record, won or lost. Read the full disclaimer.

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