Betting Profits in Lower League Football

Let’s face it, most people follow the big Premier League clubs when it comes to watching football. Programs like BBC’s “Match of the Day” only ever show Premier League games and the only times that lower league clubs get a look in is when the FA Cup is with us.

The BBC are all too aware though where people’s interests lay. They know that the public want to see the best players playing for the best clubs in one of toughest leagues on the world. This follows on to football betting as well with the vast amount of liquidity focusing on the Premier League, the major European league games, Internationals and Champions League.

One of the biggest reasons behind this is that many of these games are televised and millions of people like to have a punt on sporting events that they happen to be watching or are able to watch. It is only natural of course that the biggest interest lay with the biggest leagues. But yet I feel that there are potential profits concentrating on the lower leagues and even the non-league matches.

Premier League football is akin to group races in the sport of horse racing in so much as both are highly analysed meaning that almost everything is known about the competitors. But switch this to the non-league football arena and suddenly we have a totally different picture.

Events that would have almost no impact on the result of a match in the Premier League may have a massive impact if that game were to be played say in the Blue Square Premier league. If Arsenal were playing Blackburn Rovers at the Emirates and on the morning of the game, the latest team news revealed that Arsenal’s first choice keeper, Miguel Almunia was unfit and couldn’t play….this would have almost no impact on the price.

Arsenal’s home advantage coupled with the fact that they keep hold of the ball for long periods due to the strength of their passing game and the fact that they have other capable keepers to come in would have next to no impact at all on the match prices. But change this situation to a non-league game between Oxford United and Histon and the loss of a first choice keeper could have a far greater effect.

These tiny clubs do not have the strength in depth of big squads and the reserve keeper may just end up being some 17 year old youth team player who is about to make his debut. It can pay big dividends to really keep your finger on the pulse with non-league football.

Most of these clubs have websites and news desks so you can keep up to date with all of the latest team news. Plus, getting to know the ins and outs of twenty odd clubs will be a damn site easier than trying to learn something about every club in the entire football league.

If you want to make money in any form of gambling then the best way to do it is to both specialise and to concentrate on areas where the bookies may not know as much as what you do. That isn’t an easy proposition these days but yet there are so many markets available now that if you can show enough discipline to restrict yourself to just one of them then your potential for making money will take a massive quantum leap forward.

There are a whole host of other football websites that focus primarily on non-league football so you have plenty of information outlets to work on in your quest to make money betting on lower league football.

/ Carl “The Dean” Sampson