Champions League Betting Tips at OLBG Explained
In the first column, you can see the overall confidence rating for each Champions League tip. This looks at the total win tips on each Champions League match spread across home, away and draw selections.
A higher confidence rating than the odds of that team indicates a possible value bet.
Our Champions League tipsters cover predictions on a wide selection of markets, including 1X2, over-under goals, both teams to score, first goalscorer and correct score.
Some tipsters are experts in finding great bets from certain markets. They have studied all the stats and trends, so you don't have to research.
Click on a Champions League match above to dig deeper into the tips available, check out the profitability of the tipsters, their consistency for regularly tipping winners and read why they are making their forecasts.
Head to the Best Football Tipsters for today's free football tips from OLBG's football experts. These are today's football selections from OLBG's best profit-performing tipsters for football tips over the last 12 months.
Best Champions League Betting Odds - Which Bookies to Use for Champions League Betting
If you pick your bets on our Champions League bet predictions page, you can add them to a betslip, then if you are backing your bets in an accumulator, you can see which bookie has the best odds for your Champions League bet.
In our article covering the Best Football Bookmakers, we look at the betting odds provided by all the top UK bookmakers to see if any bookie regularly offers the best odds.
There is research to suggest that BetVictor regularly provide good odds on the Premier League matches, check to see if they follow suit on the Champions League. You can also view their price promise for football accumulators.
Champions League Betting Advice - How to win from Betting on the Champions League
As well as providing tips for Champions League matches, OLBG offers lots of in-depth analysis to help you improve your Champions League Betting.
Our Football Betting Forum has football discussion threads on some in-depth, expert topics such as Your Premier League Betting Approach, how to build tissues (the odds for each match), how Poisson Distribution can help with your betting and much more!
As well as the more in-depth statistical discussion, our Champions League betting experts also discuss the latest transfers, injuries, team tactics and their assessments on how this affects their Champions League predictions.
Our football betting blogs area is full of articles looking at betting angles for the Champions League. There are also some very in-depth statistical articles to help you spot the best trends and angles to look out for with your Champions League betting.
Champions League Statistics
To help with your Champions League tips and bets, the following 5-year Champions League statistics may come in handy, only group matches are included where a result is settled after 90 minutes.
| 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Wins | 40 (42%) | 47 (49%) | 46 (48%) | 45 (47%) | 77 (53%) |
| Draws | 20 (21%) | 18 (19%) | 19 (20%) | 20 (21%) | 18 (13%) |
| Away Wins | 36 (38%) | 31 (32%) | 31 (32%) | 31 (32%) | 49 (34%) |
| BTTS (Yes) | 47 (49%) | 50 (52%) | 48 (50%) | 59 (61%) | 73 (51%) |
| Over 2.5 Goals | 58 (60%) | 58 (60%) | 57 (59%) | 57 (59%) | 90 (63%) |
| Goals Per Game | 3.01 | 3.09 | 3.17 | 3.08 | 3.26 |
Correct Scores
The top 5 most occurring Correct Scores over the past five seasons:
- 2-0 = 47 (9% or 10/1)
- 1-0 = 45 (9% or 10/1)
- 1-1 = 43 (8% or 11/1)
- 2-1 = 40 (8% or 11/1)
- 1-2 = 32 (6% or 15/1)
Betting Strategies for Champions League Betting
When looking for betting strategies to use for your Champions League betting then you already have the figures above. You can see that a 2-0 outcome during the group stages is the most popular outcome of matches.
However, you are still talking about only 47 successful bets from the past five seasons, which may not prove profitable.
You do, of course, have the option of dutching correct score, which means splitting your stake between outcomes, so if any of them win, then you receive around the same amount of a return.
Dutching Correct Scores
An example of that would be, say Manchester City is hosting Bayern Munich and you want to back the correct score and you have three different scores in mind, 1-1, 2-1 & 1-2, which are three of the top five correct scores in the UCL.
The prices of the outcomes are 13/2 for 1-1, 15/2 for 2-1 and 12/1, and you set yourself a total stake of £20 to spread over the three correct scores.
Your bets would work out as:
- £8.13 on 1-1
- £7.18 on 2-1
- £4.69 on 1-2
If the match finishes with any of those correct scores, then it's a winner and the return would be £60.99, meaning a profit of £40.99.
Those three correct scores (1-1, 2-1 & 1-2) have been the result in 122 of the 480 group matches, which are just over 25% of the games.
You could also use the Champions League betting tips above, see what our football experts' betting predictions for the Champions League are and use those to Dutch.
Dutching Correct Scores
Champions League Format & Finalists
Over the years, the Champions League has been rejigged by UEFA to make the competition a true test of football quality.
From the 2024-25 season, it took a new league format where 36 clubs competed in one league, playing eight matches each.
The top eight teams advanced to the round of 16 as seeded teams, whilst those in 9th to 16th advanced as seeded teams to the knockout phase.
They played the teams from the 17th to the 24th places, who advanced as unseeded teams to the knockout phase.
For more information on the latest news and fixtures, to help you choose the best Champions League bets, consult the official UEFA.com website.
Last Ten Champions League Winners
| Season | Winners | Score | Runners Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Paris Saint-Germain | 5-0 | Inter Milan |
| 2023-24 | Real Madrid | 2-0 | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2022-23 | Manchester City | 1-0 | Inter Milan |
| 2021-22 | Real Madrid | 1-0 | Liverpool |
| 2020-21 | Chelsea | 1-0 | Man City |
| 2019-20 | Bayern Munich | 1-0 | PSG |
| 2018-19 | Liverpool | 2-0 | Tottenham |
| 2017-18 | Real Madrid | 3-1 | Liverpool |
| 2016-17 | Real Madrid | 4-1 | Juventus |
| 2015-16 | Real Madrid | 1-1 (Pens) | Atletico Madrid |
James Banting and Andy Powell created and maintain OLBG's comprehensive UEFA Football coverage of the Champions League, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to their work.
James Banting
Tipster Competition Assistant
Andy Powell
Content Editor
FAQ
Champions League FAQ
What are the best UEFA Champions League Betting Tips for This Week?
For each round of the UCL, you will find the best Champions League betting for this week right above, each game will have the best bet for that game highlighted based on expert football tipsters predictions.
Who is the favourite to win the Champions League?
When looking at the beginning of the season to see are favourites to win the Champions League, you will see the usual names mentioned, the likes of fourteen-time winners Real Madrid, six-time winners Liverpool and Bayern Munich and five-time winners Barcelona will all be high up on the odds list.
How do you make the best Champions League bet predictions?
Our expert football tipsters will study the UCL matches before making their bet predictions for the champions league, they will look at things like current form, past head-to-head matches, also things like team news which can play a big role in the result if big-name players are going to miss the game for example and then using all of this information they will make their champions league betting tips.
Do you provide champions league over under 2.5 predictions?
Yes! Not only do we provide under 2.5 predictions for the champions league, we also cover numerous markets which include BTTS, Full-Time Result, Goalscorering markets, Booking markets and many more so if you are an under 2.5 predictions fan then we have you covered but also other so much more.
When are the Champions League betting tips available for the Tuesday and Wednesday games?
You will start seeing tips for the Tuesday and Wednesday champions league matches on Monday, you may notice them even earlier but most tips will go up a day or two prior to the game because the tipsters will be keeping an eye on information that may affect their predictions like weather conditions and team news.