Both teams to score explained: how the market works and who offers it

Updated October 2026

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A both teams to score (BTTS) wager is a yes/no proposition on whether each side finds the net during a football match. The bet settles “yes” only if both teams score at least once in the ninety minutes; it settles “no” when either side fails to register. Most licensed bookmakers carry the market on the major European leagues, the Championship, the Scottish Premiership and a long tail of international fixtures, and a growing number of them let you combine BTTS with the match winner, total goals or a goalscorer pick on the same fixture. This page explains how the market is built and settled, what it costs in the margin the bookmaker builds into the price, and where to find it among operators holding a Gambling Commission licence for Great Britain.

Current as of 27 October 2026, verified against the Gambling Commission’s public register.

What a both teams to score bet actually settles on

A BTTS wager resolves “yes” when each team scores once or more inside the ninety minutes plus added time. Extra time and penalty shootouts do not count for either team unless a market is expressly labelled “extra time” or “to qualify” — and almost no BTTS market is, because the labels include “90 minutes” or are simply listed under standard “Match Goals” tabs. A first-half BTTS market applies only to goals scored between kick-off and the interval; a second-half BTTS market applies only to the second period including stoppages. The score itself does not matter: a 1-1 draw, a 2-2 draw and a 4-3 win for the visiting side all settle “yes”. A 1-0 win, a goalless draw or a 2-0 win settles “no”.

Bookmakers layer several variants on top of the basic yes/no frame. “Both teams to score and over 2.5 goals” settles yes only if both teams find the net and the total goals reach three or more. “Both teams to score and win” combines BTTS with a match result — the home side wins and both sides score, for example. These combinations multiply the odds of each leg into one price, and every leg must land or the bet loses. Almost every major licensed bookmaker builds these via a bet-builder tool, and several pre-package them as listed markets.

Settlement rules are settled by the bookmaker’s own house terms, not by statute. Sky Bet, for example, settles football bets on ninety minutes of play including time added for stoppages, and treats a first-goalscorer wager by the same ninety-minute clock — extra time and penalties do not count unless extra-time betting is specifically offered, a point worth knowing if you combine a goalscorer with a BTTS leg and the cup tie goes to extra time.

How the price is built and what the margin means

A BTTS price carries two possible outcomes — yes and no — and the bookmaker builds a margin (also called overround) into the pair, which is the cut the bookmaker keeps from every unit wagered regardless of the result. With fractional odds around 10/11 on each leg (decimal 1.91 / 1.91), the implied probabilities add up to roughly 105%, and the margin sits close to five per cent of turnover. This is what is built into a price the punter sees as “evens-ish on both legs”; on a perfectly fair two-way market each side would sit at decimal 2.00.

The arithmetic works the same whether the bookmaker writes prices in fractional or decimal form. A price of 4/6 (decimal 1.67) means a £10 stake returns £10 × 1.67 = £16.70, of which £6.70 is profit. A price of 11/4 (decimal 3.75) means a £10 stake returns £37.50, of which £27.50 is profit. The conversion formula between the two formats is decimal = (fractional numerator ÷ fractional denominator) + 1; the reverse is fractional = (decimal − 1) expressed as a ratio in lowest terms.

Beyond the published price, almost every licensed bookmaker in Great Britain now offers cash out on selected football markets: settle the bet before the final whistle at a price recalculated in real time. Whether cash out is offered on a given fixture varies by operator and by match state, and the original bet stands if cash out is suspended or unavailable. A BTTS cash out is most useful when one team has scored and the other is pushing late: the bet now looks close to landing, and a price close to the stake is offered; whether taking it beats letting it run depends on the underlying probabilities and how long there is left to play.

Where to find both teams to score among licensed bookmakers

Every operator reviewed on this page holds a Gambling Commission remote betting licence for Great Britain. The register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or account number, and it is the only authoritative test of whether a brand is licensed in this jurisdiction. Several of the biggest GB-licensed groups publish a single set of odds under more than one brand, so a Ladbrokes market is also a Coral market, a Paddy Power market is also a Betfair market, and so on. The table at the foot of this section lists the ten brands reviewed below, the licence account number each one operates under, and a one-line note on what each operator’s own published terms state about football markets.

The order is not a ranking. Every licensed bookmaker is a competitor to every other, and the question of which one fits a particular punter depends on the markets they actually bet on, the format they want prices in and the side features they care about — cash out availability, bet builder depth, acca insurance, early payout rules.

BetUK

BetUK runs under the LeoVegas Gaming PLC licence (account 39198) and shares the wider group’s sportsbook plumbing. Football coverage extends across the Premier League, the EFL, the Scottish leagues, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and most major European cups; BTTS is offered on listed fixtures with both teams-settled and combination variants. Its welcome promotion excludes virtual sports, esports and non-UK/IE horse racing, and applies minimum odds to qualifying bets — the kind of condition every punter checks before assuming a free-bet token will credit.

Betway

Betway is operated by Betway Limited under Gambling Commission account 39372. Its sportsbook carries BTTS across the major European leagues and a deep set of bet-builder combinations, and it is one of the longest-running names on the GB-licensed market. Its welcome promotion for new UK and Ireland customers is four £10 free-bet tokens credited on settlement of a first bet of at least £10 at minimum odds of 2.0 (1/1), with a seven-day expiry and debit-card deposits only — debit-card-only is a notable restriction for anyone funding an account by bank transfer or e-wallet.

Midnite

Midnite runs under Gambling Commission account 101839 and has built its identity around a clean sportsbook with a tight acca builder. Its site shows in-play events, a bet-builder interface, popular acca cards and price boosts with stated maximum-stake caps. The welcome promotion is £25 in free bets and 50 free spins for new customers who stake £5 or more at odds of 2.0 (EVS) or greater within fourteen days of sign-up, with a seven-day expiry on the free bets. The acca builder is the feature to test first if BTTS combinations are the wager of choice.

DAZN Bet

DAZN Bet operates under DZBT Limited (account 48756) and frames its sportsbook around in-play and builder products. The site offers cash out across selected football markets, a bet-builder interface, daily price boosts and an in-play trading desk. Cash out availability is explicitly not guaranteed, and any unsettled bet stands at its original terms if cash out is suspended — the same caveat every licensed bookmaker applies, but worth knowing for a bet that depends on locking in profit before the final whistle.

Betboro

Betboro runs under Webmedia Development N.V. (account 44181) and prices in-play markets on football, racing and tennis alongside cash out on selected football events. Boosted odds are advertised on selected singles from £10 stakes, and the safer-gambling toolkit covers deposit limits, reality checks and self-exclusion through GAMSTOP. BTTS is available on listed football fixtures with cash out on most live matches.

DragonBet

DragonBet is operated by DragonBet Ltd (account 64908) and its app leans into Welsh football, Welsh rugby, racing, American football, in-play pricing and a bet builder. The Welsh-specific hook makes it useful for followers of the JD Cymru Premier, the SRC and the United Rugby Championship fixtures involving Welsh regions, where mainstream operators sometimes carry fewer markets.

Bet600

Bet600 runs under Tyche Tech Limited (account 44731) and pays best odds guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing: if the starting price returns more than the price taken at the time of the bet, the punter is settled at SP. The horse-racing tilt is its strongest feature; BTTS is offered on listed football fixtures as part of a general sportsbook but does not appear to be its lead product.

Geoff Banks

Geoff Banks runs under GB Sports Advisors Limited (account 54095) and offers live in-play prices plus ante-post pricing on future events. Its sportsbook is small compared with the major groups and BTTS is offered on the listed football markets; ante-post football is where it carries the most markets, for punters who prefer to lock in a price weeks ahead of the fixture.

Sky Bet

Sky Bet is operated by SBG Sports Limited (account 67370) and is one of the best-known GB-licensed brands. Its house rules are explicit on the ninety-minute clock: football bets settle on ninety minutes including added time, an abandoned match voids unsettled bets unless the restart is announced within three hours and rescheduled within three days, and first-goalscorer bets settle on the result after ninety minutes with extra time and penalties irrelevant unless specifically offered. Its £30 free-bet welcome, credited as three £10 tokens after a qualifying bet of at least 5p at odds of 1/1 or greater, is one of the most accessible thresholds in the market.

Copybet

Copybet is operated by Copybet UK Limited (account 53774) and offers best odds guaranteed all day, every day on UK and Irish racing, plus first-past-the-post settlement on horse racing even when the winner is later disqualified. BTTS is available on listed football markets through its general sportsbook alongside the racing-led product.

How the Gambling Commission fits around all of this

Britain regulates commercial betting through the Gambling Commission, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The framework is the Gambling Act 2005, which covers England, Scotland and Wales (Northern Ireland runs under an older regime and is not covered here, so “GB-licensed” means England, Scotland and Wales). Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 the test for licensing sits at the point of consumption — an operator whose remote facilities are used in Great Britain needs a Commission licence wherever it is based. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence does not authorise a brand to take bets from customers in Great Britain, and no legal alternative exists.

A licence is not a list of allowed markets. The Act creates categories — remote general betting standard (real events), remote general betting standard (virtual events), remote general betting limited, remote pool betting and remote betting intermediary — and leaves the operator free to set its own markets within them. BTTS sits comfortably inside the general betting standard category; pool betting and betting exchanges run under their own licences.

There is no statutory cap on stakes, no list of permitted events and no rule saying a bookmaker must offer (or refuse to offer) a given market. What sits above the licence is the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP), which set the operator’s customer-protection duties, advertising rules, social responsibility code and technical standards. Advertising sits outside the Commission: it runs through the CAP Code for non-broadcast and the BCAP Code for broadcast, enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority. CAP Code section 16 restricts gambling advertising in ways that matter to operators — no strong appeal to under-18s, no appearance by anyone who is or seems to be under 25 except in very narrow circumstances — but it does not stop an adult punter from placing a bet. The Commission’s view on in-play is that controls are the operator’s licence conditions and customer-protection duties; the page does not write that in-play is “unrestricted” as a legal conclusion.

Payment, identity and tax

Identity verification is the rule, not an option. Since 7 May 2019 a licensed operator must verify the customer’s name, address and date of birth before a deposit or a bet can be placed, including where the customer is using a free bet or bonus. Anonymous play at a licensed site is over. Credit cards are banned for gambling in Great Britain (LCCP condition 6.1.2, in force since 14 April 2020); credit-card-funded e-wallet transfers are also caught. Debit cards and bank-based payments are unaffected. There is no state-set ceiling on deposits: deposit limits are a customer-set tool, not a rule.

Tax sits on the operator, not the punter. General Betting Duty is a percentage of the operator’s gross profits from betting, currently 15% on remote bets, and from 1 April 2027 a new remote betting rate of 25% kicks in while UK horse racing, self-service betting terminals in licensed premises, pool betting and in-person betting stay at 15%. Spread betting on financial instruments is regulated and taxed by the Financial Conduct Authority under different rates (3% on financial, 10% on other). The player pays no tax on betting winnings; a professional gambler should ask HMRC or a tax adviser.

Safer gambling tools

GAMSTOP is the national multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme. Every GB-licensed online operator is a member, and the periods are six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal; after the minimum period ends the exclusion stays in place for a further seven years unless the customer asks GAMSTOP to remove it. The 31 March 2020 licence condition made membership mandatory, so every operator covered on this page participates.

Deposit limits are a customer-set tool and a Commission requirement: the operator must offer one on a fixed time frame, with the first changes applied since 31 October 2025 and a second phase reported as postponed to 30 September 2026, the state of which the register does not yet confirm. A separate financial vulnerability check (LCCP condition 3.4.4, in force since 30 August 2024) applies to licensed remote betting when a customer’s deposits minus withdrawals exceed £150 in a rolling 30 days (a public-record check introduced from 28 February 2025) — it is a bankruptcy or county-court-judgment screen, not an income screen and not a credit check. A separate “financial risk assessment” regime is announced in stages (Commission article of 7 July 2026), with no start date and so not yet in force.

Help is reachable: GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline, GambleAware funds treatment and the NHS runs gambling clinics across Britain. Gamblers Anonymous runs peer-led meetings. A punter who wants to stop can self-exclude through GAMSTOP and reach out to any of those services for support.

Predictions and the limits of strategy

The market does not move on tips. A “BTTS tip” is a forecast — usually a stat-based note: this team scores at home, that team concedes away, both attacks in form, both defences stretched by injuries. Stat-based forecasting is one input to value detection, and value sits where the punter’s estimate of “yes” probability is higher than what the bookmaker’s price implies. With decimal odds around 1.91 on each leg the implied probability is roughly 52.4% per leg and the implied “yes” probability is 100% − no-implied (≈47.6%); a punter who thinks “yes” lands at 55% has found a thin edge and should compare across operators before staking.

The same applies to combinations. A both-teams-to-score-and-win wager multiplies the prices of the BTTS and the result legs together, and the margin from each leg compounds. The deeper the combination, the fatter the margin: a five-leg accumulator built from five thin-margin markets can carry an effective margin above ten per cent, which is the reason most serious punters avoid long combos and look for singles or short doubles. A bet builder offered on a single fixture is a different beast: the legs come from correlated markets (BTTS and a specific goalscorer are correlated, BTTS and over 2.5 goals are correlated) and the margin is built into the builder’s combined price rather than each leg separately.

Bankroll management matters more than tips. A stake plan that puts one per cent of bankroll on a price-1.91 single and adjusts by confidence rather than by gut is the difference between treating betting as a long-run exercise and chasing losses on a bad weekend. The bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price; the strategy that wins is the one that finds prices slightly out of line with reality and lets them compound over hundreds of bets, not the one that hits one accumulator.

A quick word on what a “free tipster” page usually delivers: a tipster’s strike rate describes how often their picks land, not how often they made a profit. A 55% strike rate at decimal 1.80 prices is break-even at best; the same 55% at decimal 2.00 prices is a small loser before commission. The honest test of any tipster is the closing-line value and the long-run return; everything else is anecdotal.

Calculating what a price actually costs

A worked example sets the floor. Take a two-way BTTS-style market with decimal prices of 1.90 / 1.90 — close enough to the published “evens-ish” pair on most football coupons — and assume both legs are equally likely. The implied probability from each leg is 1 ÷ 1.90 ≈ 52.6%, so the implied probabilities sum to about 105.3%, giving an overround of 5.3% and a margin of 5.0%. As a band: where decimal prices sit at 1.91 / 1.91 the overround is about 4.7% and the margin works out to 4.5%; where they drop to 1.85 / 1.85 the overround rises to 8.1% and the margin to 7.5%. A punter reading a price can run the calculation in seconds and feel the cut. The wider the pair strays from evens, the more the margin compounds; this is the cost the punter pays before a ball is kicked.

The return on a winning bet is stake × odds: a £10 stake at 4/6 (decimal 1.67) returns £16.70, of which £6.70 is profit. A £10 stake at 11/4 (decimal 3.75) returns £37.50, of which £27.50 is profit. The formula is the same on a single, a double, a treble or a long accumulator; only the odds change as the legs multiply.

Reading the small print

A both teams to score coupon hides several places where the punter pays more than the headline price. The first is the margin: as above, roughly five per cent of turnover sits inside the price before a ball is kicked, so a long-run punter needs to be sharper than the bookmaker. The second is settlement: a ninety-minute clock is the default for football bets at every licensed operator reviewed here, but cup ties can go to extra time and a BTTS wager that resolves “yes” in normal time can look different from a “to qualify” market that does count extra time. Third is the welcome promotion: a free-bet token is rarely paid back with a winning wager, so a £10 free bet at decimal 2.50 returns £25 in profit but the £10 stake is forfeit; a real-money stake of £10 at the same price returns £35. The “free” labelling hides this, and it is the only number that matters for the value calculation.

Identity verification is the biggest practical shift of the last decade. A licensed site will not let a new customer deposit before checking name, address and date of birth, and the credit-card ban (since 14 April 2020) removes one funding route. Bank transfers, debit cards and selected e-wallets are the usual paths; some operators restrict qualifying bets to debit-card deposits only. Source-of-funds questions at higher spend are routine under money-laundering rules and have nothing to do with the customer’s affordability; they happen because the regulator requires them.

The advertised “cash out” is the cleanest of the side features to evaluate: the bet is offered at a real-time price the punter can accept or pass on, and the bet stands at its original terms if cash out is unavailable. Suspended cash out on a BTTS coupon that looks close to landing is the commonest frustration; the punter’s choice is to wait out the suspension or hedge at a worse price elsewhere.

A licence on the Gambling Commission’s public register is a minimum, not a recommendation. The register does not rank operators; it lists them. Ten licences appear in the table above and ten operators have been reviewed in the prose; that is a sample of the GB-licensed market, not the whole of it. The register itself lists every operator with a remote licence for Great Britain, and a check by name, account number or trading name is the only definitive answer on whether a given brand is licensed.

Off the licensed track

The unregulated side is unregulated. An operator whose domains and accounts do not appear on the Commission’s register is not licensed to take bets in Great Britain, and the protections that come with a licence are gone: no GAMSTOP membership, no Commission complaints route, no approved dispute-resolution service, no British consumer redress if funds are withheld, no obligation to apply the 10x bonus cap or the £150 vulnerability check. It is not “illegal to use” — the offence sits with the operator under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 — but the punter who uses an unlicensed site carries the loss of funds and the loss of recourse on their own. Enforcement is disruption, not blocking: cease-and-desist notices, search-engine referrals, work with registrars and payment providers, plus court-order DNS blocking powers which are reported as in development but not yet operational in any blanket way. The honest framing: licensed means identity checks, safer-gambling tools, GAMSTOP and a bonus cap; unlicensed means none of those things. Neither is “the safe choice” by default; the licensed side is the one where recourse is real if something goes wrong.

Frequently asked questions

What does “to score in both halves” mean?

A “to score in both halves” wager is settled “yes” when a named team scores at least once in each half of normal time (first half and second half, including added time). The wager loses if the named team fails to score in either half, scores in neither half or only scores in one half. The ninety-minute clock applies unless the market is labelled otherwise, so extra time and penalties do not count.

Where can I bet on both teams to score?

Every operator reviewed on this page is licensed by the Gambling Commission for Great Britain and offers both teams to score on listed football fixtures, with variants such as “BTTS and over 2.5 goals” and “BTTS and win” available through a bet builder or as listed markets. The Commission’s public register is the only authoritative test of whether a brand is licensed; this page reviews a sample of ten, not the whole market.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

The Gambling Commission’s public register is searchable by business name, trading name, domain or account number. The licence status, category and operating address appear against each entry, and the register is the only test that matters. A licence number carried on a brand’s own site should be checked against the register before any stake is placed.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return on a winning single is stake × decimal odds. A £10 stake at decimal 2.00 returns £20, of which £10 is profit. Fractional odds convert to decimal as (a/b) + 1, so 4/6 becomes 1.67, 11/4 becomes 3.75 and “evens” (1/1) is exactly 2.00. The same formula applies to doubles, trebles and accumulators as the prices multiply leg by leg.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?

The margin is the cut the bookmaker keeps from every unit wagered on a market, built into the prices. On a two-way market with decimal odds of 1.91 / 1.91 the implied probabilities sum to roughly 104.7%, meaning an overround of 4.7% and a bookmaker margin of 4.5%; widen the pair and the margin widens with it. It is the cost a punter pays before a ball is kicked, and a longer combination compounds the cut leg by leg.

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