As with any major football tournament, selecting the outright winner is a popular approach for bettors to take. Even before the qualification process was finalised, the Euro 2024 winner odds market was open and active at 888sport allowing punters to size up their options.
For the big summer festival of football betting in Germany, a large part of Euro 2024 betting will focus on which team will be crowned the champion on July 14th in Berlin. Twenty-four nations take part in the tournament, but only one of them can win the famous trophy.
While the Outright Winner market is popular, there are plenty of other Euro 2024 outright markets to explore, covering everything from group outcomes to the leading goalscorer. Here is a look at some of the leading outright markets for Euro 2024.
Not all 24 teams have an equal chance of winning. While Greece’s surprise success at Euro 2004 remains one of the greatest football underdog stories of all time, such triumphs are a rarity.
Between them, Germany, Spain, Italy and France have won 10 of the previous 16 editions of the European Championship. With other major nations like Portugal and the Netherlands chipping in with a title, history shows that one of the elite teams are likely going to rise to the occasion.
Gareth Southgate’s England have remained steady as one of the main favourites in Euro 2024 winner odds. With a fantastic crop of young attacking talent like Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka, Jack Grealish and Jude Bellingham supporting proven goalscorer Harry Kane, the Three Lions are expected to go well.
The actual odds for England to win the Euro 2024 title have hovered around the 3/1 mark for most of the year during the build-up to the summer. At Euro 2020 England were denied in a home final against Italy via a penalty shoot-out, so remain in search of their first European Championship title.
Two-time winners France have been right on the heels of the odds for England to win the Euro 2024 crown, at a 10/3 quote. France have star power in the likes of Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Griezmann, Kingsley Coman and Ousmane Dembélé and will be keen to make up for their Round of 16 exit at the last edition.
Germany will pose a threat on home soil this summer as well, despite some poor results in 2023 and failures at recent major international tournaments. But they looked more like their old selves in the March international break, during which they defeated both France and the Netherlands.
Three-time winners Spain and 2016 Champions Portugal are the only two other sides trading in single figures for the title in Euro 2024 winner odds. Portugal were the only side to reach Euro 2024 with a perfect qualification record, while Spain topped their group after a surprise setback against Scotland.
Reigning champions Italy, who sprung a huge surprise at Euro 2020 by winning the title, along with the Netherlands and Belgium are a trio of main outsider options in Euro 2024 odds around a 16/1 quote.
Besides the overall long-term forecast picture of selecting the outright winner, the first stage of the competition has many different angles for a Euro 2024 betting approach. The setup of the group stage is that the top two in each of the six sections automatically go through to the next round.
The four best third-placed runners-up also join the Round of 16 action, which means that only eight of the starting twenty-four teams drop out of action. One of the most common approaches for outright betting on Euro 2024 is selecting group winners.
There is an advantage for teams winning their group, as they won’t play another group winner in the Round of 16. So if you are looking at the outright odds for England to win the Euro championships, then you would perhaps be hoping that the Three Lions top their group for a potentially easier draw in the first knockout stage.
Euro 2024 odds can also be explored in the To Qualify market for each of the six groups. This is where a team can be backed just to qualify for the next round, regardless of whether that’s as a group winner, runner-up or a third-place finisher.
Planning out the teams that are likely to win their groups, can help with planning for the latter stages of the draw. Projecting forward who may meet who and at what stage, can help with making selections in the tournament outright market.
The main contenders all have their eyes on the big prize, which is winning the silverware - there’s no prize for finishing as runners-up. However, from a Euro 2024 betting perspective, an alternative long forecast selection can be made on a team to just reach the final.
With a wager from this market, it doesn't matter whether that team wins or loses the Euro 2024 final, just that they get there. What this Euro 2024 betting option does, is eliminate the need for the backed team to win an extra match, compared to selecting them in the Outright Winner market.
While many punters jumped on the odds for England to win the Euro 2020 title at Wembley against Italy, as England fell short, so did the outright winner bets on them. But those who took the Three Lions in the To Reach The Final market would have been telling a different tale.
Similar to the Reach Final Euro 2024 odds, the Name The Finalists market is an option that is a little more testing. This is because it is a call on which two teams will reach the showcase match on July 14th in Berlin. Both teams in the Name The Finalists market have to reach the Final have to get there to support the bet.
Among the leading options are England/France, England/Germany, France/Germany, England/Portugal and England/Spain. Those are different combinations of the leading contenders from the main Euro 2024 Outright Winner market, of course.
Everyone is looking forward to some spectacular goals being scored at Euro 2024. Some of the leading strikers in the world will be pulling on their boots and striving not only to help their team to glory but for a taste of personal success in the race for the Golden Boot.
Predicting the Top Goalscorer can be done in Euro 2024 odds. The main players in this market are naturally superstars who play for leading teams. If the world’s best striker was lining up for a nation that’s an outsider in the Euro 2024 outright winner market like Hungary, Austria or Turkey, then they may not get enough games to rack up the Golden Boot goals.
So key players like France’s Kylian Mbappé and England’s Harry Kane are at the head of the Top Goalscorer market. Kane was the World Cup 2018 Golden Boot winner and scored four times at Euro 2020.
Kylian Mbappé is still looking for his first European Championship goal after failing to hit the mark at Euro 2020 despite being a leading Top Goal Scorer selection then. Will Portugal’s legend Cristiano Ronaldo be back among the goals?
Ronaldo was the top scorer at Euro 2020 with five goals, the same tally as the Czech Republic’s Patrik Schick. CR7 is the all-time leading goalscorer in the history of the European Championship, and is the third favourite at 12/1 to walk away with the Golden Boot in Euro 2024 odds.
Other names on the list include Spain’s Álvaro Morata, France’s Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griemzan, and Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku.
So there are plenty of outright markets to explore at 888sport for Euro 2024. They are all active right now, along with the latest Euro 2024 odds match betting options for the summer’s tournament.
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