UEFA Champions League Football Betting 2011

The 2010-11 edition of the UEFA Champions League will be the 56th staging of Europe’s premier football tournament, and the 19th since its restructuring into the current format of the Champions League.

Following their 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich in last season’s final Inter Milan are the defending champions. This year’s final will be played on Saturday 28 May 2011 at Wembley Stadium.

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UEFA Champions League Football Betting 2011 begins in its infancy long before the Premier League and other European domestic leagues begin. In fact the first of the qualifying stages began before the World Cup had even been completed back on June 29. Although it is unlikely that even the most ardent of football fans will have heard of any of the teams in the first qualifying round.

UEFA Champions League Group Betting

Although the qualifying rounds kick off in midsummer the UEFA Champions League football betting 2011 begins in earnest when the groups are drawn and Europe’s big guns enter the fray. The groups were drawn in Monaco on 26 August 2010 with the first round of matches getting underway on September 14.

Champions League Group A Betting
 
Inter Milan 2/5 4/6 4/6 8/13 1/2 7/17
Tottenham Hotspur 4 11/4 7/2 5/2 10/3 40/17
Werder Bremen 6 4 4 5 7/2  
FC Twente 14 16 10 20 16 18/5

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group B Betting
 
Lyon 11/8 6/4 11/8 7/4 6/5 11/10
Schalke 04 2 7/4 2 9/5 9/4 12/5
Benfica 2 11/5 9/4 2 9/4 13/8
Hapoel Tel Aviv 25 20 18 12 16 23/2

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group C Betting
 
Manchester United 1/4 3/10 1/4 1/4 3/10 2/9
Valencia 9/2 15/4 9/2 4 7/2 3
Bursaspor 12 10 12 14 11  
Glasgow Rangers 14 18 18 16 33 11

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group D Betting
 
Barcelona 1/10 1/7 1/10 1/7 1/10 1/10
Rubin Kazan 9 8 8 8 10 9
Panathinaikos 10 9 14 10 14 14
FC Copenhagen 40 28 33 25 25 33

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group E Betting
 
Bayern Munich 4/7 8/13 4/7 8/13 4/7 4/7
Roma 13/8 7/4 7/4 15/8 15/8 15/8
Basle 16 12 14 14 10 16
CFR Cluj 20 14 20 12 25 20

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group F Betting
 
Chelsea 1/4 3/10 2/7 4/11 2/9 2/7
Marseille 9/2 4 4 10/3 5 9/2
Spartak Moscow 7 7 8 10 8 7
MSK Zilina 50 33 40 16 40 40

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group G Betting
 
Real Madrid 4/9 2/5 8/15 4/7 4/7 4/9
AC Milan 5/2 16/5 11/4 5/2 5/2 11/4
Ajax 10 10 7 8 7 12
Auxerre 16 12 14 12 14 14

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Champions League Group H Betting
 
Arsenal 2/7 4/11 2/5 2/5 2/5 4/11
Shakhtar Donetsk 6 4 4 4 9/2 5
FC Braga 6 13/2 11/2 13/2 6 5
Partizan Belgrade 16 16 22 14 12 33

Odds Last Updated: 26/08/2010 (12 Days Ago)


Prior to that there were opportunities to divulge in UEFA Champions League football betting 2011 as the likes of Tottenham, Sevilla, Werder Bremen and Sampdoria entered at the play-off round stage. With the winners from two legged affairs going into the Champions League group stages and the losers going into the Europa League.

UEFA Champions League group betting is not restricted to betting on the winner of the group, you can of course bet on anything from who will qualify for the knockout stages and who will finish bottom of the group to how many goals will be scored and who will be the top scorer.

UEFA Champions League Knockout Betting

Once the hustling and bustling and toing and froing of the group stages are over the serious business of knockout Champions League gets underway. The final round of group matches will be played on December 7 and December 8, shortly followed by the draw for the round of 16 on December 17.

We then have a rather long wait before we can return to UEFA Champions League Football Betting 2011 as the round of 16 first leg games aren’t actually played until mid February. Following the conclusion of the round of 16 matches on March 16 it is then full steam ahead in regards to UEFA Champions League Football Betting 2011. The draw for both the quarter-finals and the semi-finals is made on March 17 and at that point punters can begin to forward plan their betting strategies as all remaining teams will know their route to the final.

UEFA Champions League Final Betting 2011

For the first time since 1992 the UEFA Champions league final will be held at Wembley, and for the first time since 2003 – when it was held at Old Trafford – it will be held in England. The UEFA Champions League final has now overtaken The NFL’s Super Bowl in being the most watched annual event in the world attracting more than 100 million viewers worldwide.

Those looking to bet on the Champions League final will have an array of markets to choose from. Many bookmakers will enhance their free bet offers and almost all of them will introduce new betting specials and the opportunity to bet on a range of in-play markets.

The Champions League is by far and large the biggest prize in European football and is THE biggest event in the online betting calendar.

UEFA Champions League Fixtures

All the Champions League fixtures can be found here on the oficial Champions League website.