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ChessMatch result (1X2) odds in football: a practical guide
The match result market prices the three possible outcomes of a football match: home win, draw and away win. As of 26 September 2026, Odds.Directory tracks it on 1061 football events across 213 competitions.
What the market is
Often written as 1X2, the market offers three selections: the home team to win, the draw, and the away team to win. Exactly one of them settles as a winner in every completed match.
It is the most widely offered football market and the reference point for most others. Double chance, draw no bet and the Asian handicap are all built from the same three outcomes.
How it settles
The full-time match result covers normal time including stoppage time. Extra time and penalty shoot-outs do not count, so a cup tie decided on penalties settles as a draw in this market.
Separate half-time markets settle on the score at the break, and the half-time/full-time market combines both results.
Reading the odds
Each decimal price converts to an implied probability by dividing 100 by the odds. Adding the three implied probabilities gives a total slightly above 100%; that excess is the bookmaker's margin, and it is spread across the three outcomes.
The shortest price identifies the market favourite. On Odds.Directory the favourite at the close is shown on every finished match, together with whether it won, so the archive doubles as a record of how often favourites deliver.
Opening, closing and movement
Every match page shows, for each of the three selections, the opening price, the current or closing price, and the highest and lowest prices recorded. The change from opening is shown both in odds and in percentage points of implied probability.
Price movement in this market is often the clearest summary of how the market's view of a match changed before kick-off. Odds.Directory shows what moved and by how much; it does not attribute moves to news or team selection.
Coverage in our data
The match result market is available on 1061 of the football events we track, across 213 competitions.
Its opening and closing prices, alongside the final score, form the core of the odds history archive for every competition.
Written from Odds.Directory data on