Football half-time / full-time odds

What the market is

Each selection names a half-time result and a full-time result, such as home/home, draw/away or away/draw. With three possible results at each point, the market has nine selections.

Only one of the nine can win in a completed match, so prices are considerably longer than in the single match result market.

How it settles

The first half settles on the score at the half-time whistle, including first-half stoppage time. The full-time part settles on the result after normal time including stoppage time; extra time and penalties are excluded.

A selection wins only if both parts are correct. A team leading at the break and drawing at full time settles the home/draw or away/draw selection, not the side that led.

Reading the odds

Divide 100 by each decimal price to get its implied probability. The nine probabilities add up to slightly more than 100%, and the excess is the bookmaker's margin, spread across all nine outcomes.

Selections where the half-time and full-time results agree are usually the shortest. Reversals, where one side leads at the break and the other wins, are priced longest.

Movement

Odds.Directory records opening, closing, high and low prices for each of the nine selections. Because the market depends on both halves, its prices move with the match result market and with the goals markets.

Pages show the size and direction of each move without attributing a cause.

Reading it with the match page

The half-time/full-time market is best read next to the match result and first-half markets. The match result market shows how the market sees the final outcome, while the first-half result shows how it sees the opening 45 minutes; the nine combined selections are priced from both views at once.

On a finished match page the period scores in the header show the half-time result, and the final score shows the full-time result, so the winning selection can be read off directly. The closing prices in the market list then show how likely the market considered that combination before kick-off.

Because only one of nine selections wins, small changes in price translate into small changes in implied probability. Movements in this market are therefore easier to interpret in percentage points than in odds.

Coverage in our data

Half-time/full-time is available on 191 of the football events we track, across 16 competitions. Finished match pages show the closing prices alongside the half-time and full-time scores, so each settlement can be checked against the result.