Bet on the FA Cup with totesport
The world’s premier and oldest domestic football competition, The FA Cup, generates unrivalled excitement around the globe and we at totesport offer punters a wide range of betting opportunities to make the tournament even more special.
As the competition involves teams of varying size and standard, minnows are often presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be “giant-killers” when punters can take advantage of some big prices with totesport.
There are many famous giant-killing acts from when the ‘big-guns’ enter the competition in the third round and are invariably drawn against lower-league opposition.
Arguably best known from more recent times is Wrexham’s defeat of the League champions Arsenal in 1992 – a victory made even more impressive by the fact Wrexham had finished bottom of The Football League the previous season but had not been relegated.
Just as unforgettable, was non-league Kidderminster Harries progression to the fifth round in 1994 and Wycombe’s quarter-final defeat of then-Premiership-outfit Leicester in 2001 when Roy Essandoh, who had supposedly answered a club advert for a striker, came off the bench to score a 92nd-minute winner.
Punters betting on the outright winner are all too aware that while clubs from the lower divisions enjoy the odd shock result at lucrative odds, mainly when handed a home tie, in general they rarely reach the final even though some of the bigger clubs field under-strength sides in the earlier rounds.
You have to go back to 1991 for the last final which did not feature one of the ‘big four’ and only Everton have managed to break their collective recent stranglehold on the coveted trophy, when they beat Manchester United 1-0 in the 1995 final.
Chelsea are the current holders, after their 1-0 extra-time defeat of Manchester United last May, although their overall success in the competition, with just four wins, is poor compared to their main rivals of Manchester United (11 wins), Arsenal (10), and Liverpool (7).
From the first round proper to the final itself, the FA Cup never fails to generate spine-tingling entertainment and totesport provides a multitude of exciting betting opportunities in FA to go hand-in-hand with the big games. Among our most popular markets are correct-score betting, first and last goalscorer and half-time/full-time double result bets.
Check out our ante-post FA Cup markets and follow the action round-by-round at totesport.com.
