Volleyball Betting Sites & Expert Guide 2024

Match Betting

Also known as a straight up bet, it’s a simple bet that predicts who will win the match. Depending on your bookmaker, prices may be displayed either in a decimal odds format or fractional odds format.

Payouts can be huge on the underdog – if you fancy an upset. Bettors should look at the odds that your bookie offers to see if there is a chance to win some big cash. See our example below for how it works:

• Team A – 1.50
• Team B – 11.00

In the example above the favorite to win is team A. For every 2 units placed you will win 1 unit in return. If you bet 1 unit on Team B to win, and they do, you will receive a payout of 10 to 1 which means 10 units profit. It’s always risky to back the underdog but as you can see, it can pay off in a big way.

Point Spread

With this type of wager, the winning volleyball team must beat the spread in order for the bet to pay out. The spread could be set at 45 and the favorite would have to win by 45 points or more to land the bet.

Some bettors like this type of ‘handicap bet’, because even if their team loses the bet wins – as long as the winning team failed to win by 45 points or more. This is how the bookmaker encourages an even betting event when one side is far superior to the other.

Point Totals

This is a bet on how many points, total, will be scored between the two volleyball teams. Bettors aren’t betting on the outcome of the match but instead on how many points will be scored overall.

This is also known as an over/under bet where you look at what the bookie offers and try to predict if the score will be over or under that total.

Set Betting

This wager is placed on the outcome of a particular set.

FIVB World Championships

One of the oldest and most prestigious volleyball tournaments. This is an indoor tournament that started in 1949. Traditionally, both the Russian men and women have dominated this event.

Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympics occur every four years, marking one of the biggest sporting events on earth, where the national volleyball teams of each country compete for world dominance.

The Olympics are watched around the world and draw many people into betting on volleyball as they watch the action unfold. The next Olympic Games are set to be held in Tokyo, Japan in 2020.

World League

Since 1990 this tournament is one of volleyball’s most prestigious events next to the FIVB. The men’s tournament is called the FIVB World League and the women’s, the FIVB World Grand Prix. Italy and Brazil have won this tournament 8 times each.

One big disadvantage of the sport is that like other lesser-played games, such as water polo or lacrosse, it is not considered a major sport and bookmakers don’t offer many bets on matches.

Most of the time bettors will have to wait for the major events like the ones mentioned above before they are able to place a bet. For the diehard fans out there, this can be very frustrating.