La Liga Futures

La Liga Futures

The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera Division is the premier professional soccer league in Spain and is known as the Primera Division in Spanish and the La Liga in English-speaking nations. As one of the most popular major leagues for soccer in the world, the Spanish League naturally attracts a vibrant futures market with an abundance of futures odds and potential betting strategies for bettors to conjure up when placing their futures wagers.

Futures bets are informed sports betting wagers placed on an outcome decided in the future. Separating itself from a single-game wager paid out on the same day, future betting picks are predictions made on an event or series that will conclude and payout in the future.

The most popular futures betting markets in Spanish football involve predicting the season championship winners, top goalscorers, teams to be relegated, and those that will finish in the top four positions of the standings. Today, we’ll dive deeper into those markets and break down the intricacies of each La Liga futures market.

La Liga Title Winner Odds

The La Liga regular season is contested from August through May every year, and each championship campaign will be presented with a selection of La Liga title odds. These betting odds are usually released soon after the previous season has concluded and require bettors placing a Moneyline wager to predict which team they expect to win the upcoming season.

Most commonly, the betting favorites for La Liga title odds will be represented by the most successful teams. Real Madrid is the most successful club in La Liga history, with 35 title wins, and regularly tops this set of championship-winning odds.

While pre-season wagers usually deliver the best available La Liga title-winning odds, The title-winning odds will increase and decrease on specific teams during the campaign depending on their form, thus causing soccer betting analysts will evaluate player injuries, late injuries, and season performance to adapt their betting picks. You can place title-winning futures during any point of the season, but you won’t be paid out unless your selected team wins the La Liga title following the completion of a season.

Currently, at the top online sportsbooks (such as DraftKings Sportsbook or FanDuel Sportsbook), Barcelona is the current Spanish La Liga 2022/23 betting favorite, with the defending champions Real Madrid in a close second.

Spanish La Liga Top 5 Title Winner Betting Odds for the 2022-23 Season:

• Barcelona [-250]
• Real Madrid [+175]
• Atletico Madrid [+10000]
• Athletic Bilbao [+25000]
• Real Sociedad [+25000]

The domestic season’s future odds on the La Liga championship had Real Madrid as the favorite betting choice; however, as we’re halfway into the season and Barcelona have maintained a respectable record, the odds have been adjusted during that period of time, and they’re now the betting favorites to become the eventual champions for this season. It’s important to keep in mind that the outright winner betting odds can change for a variety of reasons.

You can also bet on a push, as there are two options for ties available to bettors. So if you think that two teams will tie, this would be the betting option for you during the 2022-23 La Liga season.

La Liga Top Goalscorer Odds

The most prolific strikers of the Spanish topflight are celebrated with the presentation of the Golden Boot award at the end of each season. This trophy is gifted to the player who scores the most goals throughout the entire season.

La Liga’s top goalscorer future odds can be found pre-season and during the season, but the premise of a future bet doesn’t alter; these wagers are awarded at the end of a season once the golden boot winner has been decided. Like outright winner prices, the odds will vary based on a player’s season performance, injuries, and speculated transfer potential.

Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski is topping the current top goalscorer charts with 13 goals, followed by Borja Iglesias of Real Betis (8), Mallorca’s Vedat Muqiri (8), Espanyol’s Joselu (7), and Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde (6).

However, you’ll notice Inaki Williams of Athletic Club in the fourteenth position with 5 goals. Still, a simple hat trick can boost him right into the third position and dramatically change the odds. The top goalscorer odds can change instantly, making them extremely valuable La Liga future wagers if you can predict a boost in form from a current striker who hasn’t yet reached his overall season potential.

La Liga Top 4 Finish Odds

While the La Liga outright winner title odds are some of the most lucrative in terms of pricing, you can widen your implied probability by betting on which team/teams you expect to finish in the top 4 positions of the La Liga standings.

Clubs of the La Liga division aren’t just fighting for first place to win the title, as a top 4 finish automatically qualifies a team into the champions league. For this reason, teams of the Spanish topflight are battling for a top-four finish, at the very least, so they can ensure a position in Europe’s most decorated domestic cup competition.

La Liga top 4 finish betting picks allow the bettor (you) to predict which team you expect to finish in the top 4, and if your betting pick is a successful team that ends their season in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, your top 4 future bet is a winning ticket.

La Liga Relegation Odds

The La Liga team that finishes the season in first place becomes the title winner. Still, there’s plenty of betting action to be found at the bottom of the standings as the three lowest-placed teams at the end of each season are relegated to the Segunda Division (Spain’s second-tier pro soccer division) and replaced by the top two teams and a play-off winner from that division.

Like La Liga title-winning odds, you can also place future wagers on which clubs you expect to be relegated to the Segunda Division. The least successful teams participating in La Liga are usually more challenging to predict, as the relegation battle can often come down to the last game day of the 38- match season.

Reading the La Liga relegation or title-winning odds is carried out with the same practice. Whether you’re betting pre-season or during a season, if Real Madrid is +300 to win the La Liga title, a $100 wager will return $300 of profit over your original wager. And if Sevilla is -120 to be relegated, a $120 stake would return $100 in profit.