Welcome to our rugby betting page, where we introduce you to one of the fastest growing and truly international sports betting markets. One of the big advantages when wagering on rugby union or rugby league is that there are games on tap all year long. Rugby punters can also focus on competitive club tournaments like the Heineken Cup (Northern Hemisphere) and Super XV Rugby (Southern Hemisphere), or the atavistic thrill of international competitions like the Six Nations and the Tri Nations.
And then of course every four years we are all treated to the ultimate rugby betting event - the World Cup, immortalized in film ("Invictus") and generating a frenzy of futures action as ante-post world cup rugby markets are closely scrutinized.
The Southern Hemisphere heavyweights: Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have dominated the world cup, whether it is rugby league or rugby union, although England and France have held their own, especially in Rugby Union. The Tri-Nations, which is a round robin (home and away games) contest between the three Southern Hemisphere giants is the international event, but the Super XV is where the betting really hots up as the leading clubs from those three countries play in an epic tournament (each team plays a minimum of 14 games).
Other major club rugby tournaments are the Heineken Cup (Europe - rugby's equivalent of the UEFA Chamions League for football), the Aviva Premiership (England), the Top 14 (France), the Magners League (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Italy), and the Currie Cup (South Africa). There is certainly enough to keep rugby betting fans busy all twelve months of the year.
Rugby betting markets focus on the straight up winner (standard money line odds), the winner against the spread (standard lines where one team receives points), the total points scored in a game (Over/Under) as well as prop markets on individual achievements (try scorers, points scored, etc) within a game.
We feature the leading rugby betting odds makers as well as the latest betting for upcoming tournaments and once-off internationals.
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