Bet on Rugby League at BetUK

Looking to score points with Rugby League betting, this popular game has brought some of the best moments from the world of sport in recent years including an epic Super League campaign. Rugby League is a high-tempo sport with a lot of action across the two halves. There are dozens of opportunities to place bets across many different betting markets.

Rugby League follows it's own unique format of Rugby, there are fewer players, more substitutions, a smaller pitch and perhaps more significantly, a different scoring system. However, the most important point is that Rugby League offers fewer points for teams during a game.

Rugby League offers four points for a try, two points for conversions and penalties and just one point for a drop goal.

Betting on Rugby League Games

When looking to bet on Rugby League, there are a number of betting markets that can be used for every single game. The most popular market is the winner market, where bettors bet on the winner of the game. That is the standard betting market but it can be modified with the asian handicap where bettors can choose to bet on a team to win the game with an advantage or a disadvantage. Let's say you’re looking at a game like St Helens against Leigh Centurions, there is obviously little value in predicting the winner but picking St Helens to win by a considerable margin provides significantly better odds. Handicap bets are good when betting on teams such as the Wigan Warriors who have a good win percentage of 60% but tend to win by small margins.

Betting on Rugby League Competitions

Rugby League competitions can typically be split into two different formats, domestic and international. International tournaments are typically the most viewed Rugby League matches as they typically are followed by fans across the county while domestic games feature individual teams followed by smaller groups.

With that in mind, betting on these competitions is fairly similar. International games tend to have higher scoring games due to the highest quality of player being on show. You may also see teams such as England come up against smaller nations where they could win by a margin of 60 plus points.

The World Cup tends to be where you'll see these scores more often than not. For example, during the 2021 World Cup, 12/31 games had a winning margin of 40+ points, so Asian Handicap betting works a lot better for these types of competitions. Meanwhile, in the 2023 Super League, only 14 games had a winning margin of 40+ points but the number of games played was 162! Meaning only 1/11 games had this scoreline in the Super League but it happened in every 2.5 games in the Rugby League World Cup.

Bet on Rugby League's Super League

One of the biggest competitions in Rugby League is the Super League and here at BetUK, we have some of the largest Super League betting markets in the world. The Super League is the primary league for Rugby League in the United Kingdom and hosts some of the biggest teams in the world such as Leeds Rhinos, Wigan Warriors and St Helens.

In 2023, Wigan Warriors ended a 4-year run of dominance by St Helens, who narrowly missed out on a top two position on points difference. However, as the games got tougher the total points in games got lower, which is something to be considered when placing bets on Super League.

Bet on Rugby League's Challenge Cup

The Challenge Cup presents a number of opportunities for viewers to bet on teams that they otherwise wouldn't be too familiar with. Championship teams such as the Sheffield Eagles and the Batley Bulldogs go on to play top Super League opposition but you'll also find 20 UK based community, and armed forces league teams in the very first round.

These teams aren't going to win the competition and it's unlikely they make it beyond the second round but when looking to place bets on the competition.

Rugby League Betting Odds & Markets

Outright Betting

Due to the number of competitions in Rugby League, outright betting markets are popular amongst Rugby bettors. Outright bets are where bettors predict the winner of a tournament or league alongside individual accolades available at the start of the season.

Pre-Match & In-Play

Here at Bet UK, we have a wide range of betting markets available for players to utilise for individual games. You can place a bet during a match by clicking on the live betting section of your Bet UK page. You can bet live on any match that had pre-match markets which means all Super League and international matches. Some of the markets that we offer are stated below:

Match Winner - Bet on the winner of an individual match.

Handicap Betting - If a team looks set to win convincingly, increase the odds by adding a handicap to their score.

3-Way - Bet on the number of tries scored, which team scores more etc.

Player Prop Bets - With these types of bets you can bet on which players will score tries, who will score the most points and more!

Looking for more Rugby betting? Check out our Rugby Union markets.