Football Tips and Predictions: League of Ireland to Premier League

Our football tips are in the daily feed below, each with the market and the price at the time of writing. This page explains how we read the leagues Irish punters bet on most, starting with the League of Ireland and moving on to the Premier League and the Champions League.

Tips wireThursday, 29 October 2026

Event	Start	Market	Selection	Price	Result
Everton v Newcastle United	19:45	Match result	Everton	11/10
Fiorentina v Atalanta	19:45	Match result	Fiorentina	13/10

• Everton v Newcastle United: Newcastle have conceded 14 in eight league games, and Everton are at home, though they have scored just eight league goals this season.
• Fiorentina v Atalanta: Fiorentina are unbeaten in their last six home meetings with Atalanta, who have won only one of their last six league games.

Opinions, not certainties. Prices move; 18+, bet only what you can afford to lose.

Football tips and predictions are not the same thing

A prediction says what is most likely to happen. A tip says the price on offer is better than the chance. The two part company all the time: a side can be the likeliest winner and still be a poor bet at 1/3, while a draw nobody expects can be worth backing at 3/1. Our football predictions, where we give them, come with that distinction attached.

Each line in the feed shows the selection, the market and the price we saw. To check a return before you stake, use the bet calculator.

League of Ireland betting

The League of Ireland Premier Division runs inside the calendar year, roughly mid-February to late October or early November, a summer season since 2003. Ten clubs play each other four times for 36 games. The bottom club is relegated and the ninth-placed club plays off against the First Division play-off winner. The champions go into Champions League qualifying; second and third, and the FAI Cup winners, go into the other European qualifiers.

That structure shapes the betting. Four meetings a season between the same ten clubs mean familiar opponents and tight prices, and the draw is rarely a price to dismiss out of hand. Late-season matches carry European places and the play-off spot, so motivation counts. The league table is easy to find on the FAI's own pages; we do not reprint it, and the feed only carries the matches we have a view on.

Premier League odds: title, top four and relegation

Premier League betting odds come in two kinds. Match markets (result, both teams to score, goals totals, handicaps) price a single game. Outright markets price a season: the winner, a top-four finish, the bottom three.

Premier League winner odds are usually short at the head of the market and long everywhere else. A worked example: a club at 5/2 to win the title returns EUR 35 from a EUR 10 stake, EUR 25 profit and the stake back. That money is tied up from August to May, which is the hidden cost of any outright.

Relegation betting from the Premier League runs the other way. Twenty clubs play 38 games and the bottom three go down. A club at 6/4 to be relegated returns EUR 25 from a tenner if it goes. Relegation prices react sharply to managerial changes and January signings, so early-season prices and March prices can describe quite different clubs.

Market	Example price	EUR 10 returns
Title winner	5/2	EUR 35.00
To be relegated	6/4	EUR 25.00
Match result, odds-on favourite	4/6	EUR 16.67
Draw	9/4	EUR 32.50

The prices in the table are worked examples for the arithmetic only, not quotes for any club or match.

Champions League odds

Champions League betting odds cover the outright winner and each tie along the way. Outright prices drift and shorten through the league phase as clubs qualify or fall away, and Irish champions enter at the qualifying rounds, so a League of Ireland club in Europe is usually a qualifying-round question rather than an outright one. In two-legged knockout ties, check whether a market is on the 90 minutes of one leg or on which club goes through; those are different bets with different prices.

Accumulators and the cost of each leg

The weekend accumulator is a fixture of the football coupon and one of its most expensive bets. Every leg carries the bookmaker's margin, and the margins multiply. Four selections that each look fair can make a fourfold that is anything but. If you enjoy them, keep the stakes small and know that a single missed leg ends the bet. Our accumulator guide covers doubles, trebles and the full-cover bets.

World Cup football predictions and other international tournaments are mostly ante-post: you stake long before a ball is kicked, and a side that goes out early loses the bet. The same caution applies.

Fixed matches and other things for sale

Search for free football tips and the results soon include pages selling "fixed matches" and guaranteed winners. Match-fixing is a crime, and anyone who truly had a fixed result would not sell it to strangers for a subscription; the subscription is the product. If a tipster's football selections cost money, ask why he is selling them rather than backing them himself.

Where to bet on football from Ireland

The bookmakers below hold a GRAI remote betting licence, which online bookmakers have needed to serve Irish customers since 1 July 2026. It covers betting, not casino products. How we order them is set out on our rating page.

No.	Runner	Form	Licence	Verdict	Links
1	bet365Hillside (Europe) ENC	1-1-2-2-3	GRAI licence (betting)	NAP	Visit
2	Paddy PowerPPB Counterparty Services Limited	1-1-2-2-3	GRAI licence (betting)	NAP	Visit
3	BetfairPPB Counterparty Services Limited	1-1-4-4-4	GRAI licence (betting)	NAP	Visit
4	BoyleSportsBoylesports (Gibraltar) Limited	1-2-1-2-3	GRAI licence (betting)	Each-way	Visit
5	LivescorebetLiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited	1-2-3-4-4	GRAI licence (betting)	Each-way	Visit

Form reads licence, markets, payments, safer-play tools, terms; 1 is best. How we rate. 18+ only.

18+ only. Football runs nearly every day of the year, which is a reason to set a weekly limit rather than a match-by-match one; the tools are explained on our safer gambling page.