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Rugby league offers many exciting betting opportunities, especially to punters willing to go a bit international with their betting. This rugby league guide will introduce you to the many forms of rugby league betting and the best online bookmakers to place your rugby league bets at, as well as a brief introduction to betting on the major rugby league competitions.

Best Rugby League Betting Markets

To start off this rugby league guide, we will take a look at some of the best rugby league betting markets.

Match Coupon or Match Odds is the most common form of rugby league betting, a straight up bet on which team will win. This is usually offered as a 3-way bet with odds on each team to win and odds on a draw. This rugby league betting market is not always the most profitable, as the limited number of outcomes leads to very tight odds.

Futures rugby league betting is also popular, but is essentially just a way of giving Match Odds in the weeks or months leading up to an event. Some rugby league betting futures can also be based on more general outcomes, such as which team will win the overall season.

Rugby league prop bets are bets on things other than the outcome of games. An example is first try scorer, which is a very popular rugby league prop bet that requires you to pick the first player to score a try in a major game. Prop bets can be quite popular among players with a bit more gamble in them, as they tend to offer longer odds than the more straightforward rugby league bets.

Betting on Rugby League Competitions

For most players, the two major rugby league competitions for betting purposes are the UK Super League and Australia's National Rugby League AKA the NRL. We'll take a quick look now at the common betting strategies in these markets, but please visit our specific pages for more detail on UK Super League betting and NRL betting.

UK Super League

There are four main teams that tend to lead the Super League - Leeds Rhinos, Wigan Warriors, Bradford Bulls and St Helens. When making bets on the whole season, these four teams will usually be favourites.

In recent years, the Leeds Rhinos have been quite dominant and will have fairly short odds in season result prop bets at any bookie. However, these bets usually have fairly long odds that you may want to consider taking given the past success of Leeds.

Visit our UK Super League page for more information on rugby league betting for the Super League.

NRL

National Rugby League betting is very popular in Australia, where rugby competes with local Australian Rules football for the love of the nation. Recent years have seen some departures and controversies that have shaken up NRL betting opportunities, but this has not diminished the popularity of the game.

For instance, the Melbourne Storm had their 2007 and 2009 premierships stripped after they had been found to breach the salary cap. Also, the Brisbane Broncos have to build back up from a group of far less experienced players as many of their prior superstars have recently retired leaving them a much diminished team.

The Melbourne Storm have made for some tremendous NRL betting Odds opportunities in recent seasons, having had general success and also possessing some of the NRL's best players. Also, they are currently something of a villain in the NRL betting, which can lead to some overbalanced odds that a canny punter can take advantage of.

The NRL also has an inter state competition series where players from QLD and NSW compete over 3 games to be crowned state of origin champions. Most UK sportbooks will have latest State Of Origin Odds usually a week before each game.

Visit our NRL page for more information on NRL betting.