A World at Play: Betting Beyond English Soccer Markets

English football is a fan favourite amongst punters and is one of the most popular betting markets in the world — but there’s so much more out there worth betting on. When you expand your interest to less popular leagues you open up opportunities to find value bets that the Premier League and the like simply don’t offer. It’s all about increasing your options whilst enjoying the process of learning new leagues, with new players, and new markets you never could have dreamed of.

There’s quite literally a world of leagues out there for you to explore and the good news is, Sportingbet has markets for all of them. Let’s take a closer look at the wide world of international soccer leagues and see which ones are worth betting on.

Far from obscure, LaLiga is one of the most popular leagues outside of the UK. It’s a great place to use your existing European soccer knowledge and apply it to a purely Spanish playing field. LaLiga sees games from European favourites like Real Madrid and Barcelona, but offers the opportunity to get to know other Spanish teams that don’t often feature in broader European leagues. 

LaLiga is a great place to start for your first excursion outside of English soccer and offers a great opportunity to broaden your betting markets. Matches are highly competitive and the fanbase is welcoming with plenty of odds, stats, and media available online to help you smoothly transition into a new arena.

Far from obscure, LaLiga is one of the most popular leagues outside of the UK. It’s a great place to use your existing European soccer knowledge and apply it to a purely Spanish playing field. LaLiga sees games from European favourites like Real Madrid and Barcelona, but offers the opportunity to get to know other Spanish teams that don’t often feature in broader European leagues. 

LaLiga is a great place to start for your first excursion outside of English soccer and offers a great opportunity to broaden your betting markets. Matches are highly competitive and the fanbase is welcoming with plenty of odds, stats, and media available online to help you smoothly transition into a new arena.

The world of soccer expands so much further than the European continent and US Major League Soccer is a great example of international soccer worth watching. Don’t let yourself think that just because the United States isn’t known for soccer that their league is any less entertaining — the league has developed over recent years, recruiting players from across the world, with names like Lionel Messi, Thiago Almada, and Facundo Torres in their domestic clubs. 

With the amount of European players featured in MLS, it has all the familiarity of leagues like UEFA with the opportunity to learn a whole new landscape with its own unique odds. It’s a great way to transition out of Europe without a complete culture shock. 

Now let’s get into something slightly more obscure. Some people might not even realise that Ethiopia hosts a highly competitive soccer league, but there are some truly incredible games being played in the country. What’s great about extending your soccer tastes beyond leagues in Europe is that you’ll often find that slow or stagnant days in the European world still offer some awesome matches in African soccer. Never mind that you probably haven’t heard of any of the teams which offers an exciting opportunity to get to know a new league from the ground up.

With African leagues like Ethiopian Premier League in your greater soccer knowledge, you’ll not only never go a day without a great game to watch, and you’ll find that there’s always the opportunity to hunt down a value bet that stands to make you a tidy profit.

There are more soccer leagues out there than we could ever hope to cover in one blog, but hopefully we’ve opened your mind to the broader world of international soccer. Sportingbet offers betting markets for leagues from across the world, just check out our soccer betting page to find soccer odds on just about all of them. Getting to know new teams in new leagues can be incredibly rewarding and you’ll find there’s no such thing as a slow day in the world of soccer once you’ve become a master of soccer betting, so get out there and experience what the soccer world truly has to offer.