Champions League Betting Tips

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.

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.

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.

To help with your Champions League tips and bets the following 5-year Champions League statistics may come in handy.

Correct Scores

The top 5 most occurring Correct Scores over the past five seasons:

• 2-0 = 45 (9% or 10/1)
• 1-1 = 44 (9% or 10/1)
• 2-1 = 37 (8% or 11/1)
• 1-2 = 34 (7% or 13/1)
• 1-0 = 31 (6% or 15/1)

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 45 successful bets from a total of 480 group stages over the past five seasons which may not prove profitable.

You do, of course, have the option of dutching correct score, what this means is 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 four 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.

Siding With The Underdog

If you are someone who likes to find an underdog to bet on in the UCL then the statistics would say if backing in the group stages, get on early, a lot of our Champions League tips will also portray this!

For the first round of group matches, only 51% of favourites in the past five seasons won their games which for the quality of the tournament you would expect higher.

It does rise as the rounds go, the bookies getting wise as to which teams are serious that season in this competition, it jumps to 60% for the second round of matches and then 79% for the third round of matches.

It does dip for the final three games, you could expect that later on with teams who had already qualified for the knockout stages, it goes 68% for the fourth round of games, 63% for the fifth and then 63% for the final group matches.

In the knockout stages, it does vary, however, the second legs of the quarter-finals are not great for favourites with just 31% winning.

This will be similar to the latter group matches where if teams hold a decent advantage from the first leg then you can expect the other team to push hard.

This is the sort of information that our tipsters look at when deciding on their Champions League bet predictions to give them the edge over the bookies.

Over the years The Champions League has been rejigged by UEFA to make the competition a true test of football quality.

UEFA has confirmed that 26 teams will now gain direct entry into the Champions League groups stage ahead of the competition.

The six remaining places will go to teams from the Champions League qualification rounds, making a total of 32 teams spread over 8 groups of 4 (A-H).

Each group will see 6 games played home and away. The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Here are the last ten Champions League winners and runners-up:

For more information on the latest news and fixtures, to help you to choose the best Champions League bets, consult the official uefa.com website.

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

Through the creating and maintaining of the UEFA football content, James has developed an in-depth understanding of the UEFA competitions, including the Champions League and Europa League.

Andy Powell

Content editor

During the process of both creating and maintaining the content of the UEFA football competitions, Andy has gained a profound insight into the UEFA competitions. He has a keen eye for detail and a knack for analyzing the intricacies of the game.