League One Betting

With 24 teams competing in League One, the English third division soccer league is betting on 424 games between August and May. The schedule is hectic and overlaps due to the FA Cup and the EFL Cup, and the teams are challenged physically.

With an average attendance of over 9,000 spectators per game, League One is very popular, and the atmosphere in English football stadiums makes online sports betting exciting.

Whether watching in the stands or online, this is the most followed third division football league in the world. Fans of English clubs will always claim that League One is the toughest in Europe, and it's a label in which they take pride. At the end of each season, the top two clubs and the winner of the play-offs (between clubs that finished third and sixth) are promoted to the EFL Championship.

Betting on League One 2021/22

As we reach the halfway point in the league, the battle is raging as the top five teams are all within two points of each other.

Savvy League One bettors know that points will be dropped all over the place. We will all have games with the leaders missing chances while others will have the odds in their favour.

At the bottom of the table, the bottom four are automatically relegated to League Two.

Recommended League One bets

With an average of 2.58 goals per game and with 58% of the games ending with both teams scoring, it is no wonder that the most common final result is a 2-1 home win, followed by a one-all draw. A recommended first bet is to bet on both teams scoring.

Since the beginning of the 2021/22 season, it is the second halves that are most lively. Fifty-five per cent of the goals are scored after the break with a peak in the last quarter of an hour where 22% of the goals are scored between the minute 75:00 and the end of the regular time. Another recommended bet is to bet on more goals being scored in the second half.

Betting on the winner of League One

It's an exceptionally tight league this season in League One, and that's because several teams are closely grouped at the top of the table. Over the next few months, clubs will be full of hope and expectation about the challenge that awaits them up to the end of the season.