EFL Trophy Outright Odds

The EFL Trophy goes back to 1983 and was originally exclusively open to teams in the third and fourth levels of the English football pyramid. It was conceived to give lower-ranked clubs a realistic chance of playing at Wembley Stadium and is popular among fans of lower-league teams.

It has undergone several structural changes over the years, but the premise remains the same. The most significant recent change came in 2016, when category one under-21 teams were introduced to the tournament for the first time.

Learn more about the EFL trophy and its recent winners and discover your outright betting options at Parimatch Sportsbook.

The EFL Trophy is a knockout competition contested by all EFL League One and League Two clubs, alongside under-21 teams from the English Premier League and EFL Championship.

Sixty-four teams enter the tournament at the start of the English football season. Forty-eight of these are the teams in League One and League Two, and they’re joined by 16 category one Premier League or Championship under-21 sides.

The tournament begins with 16 groups of four, organised regionally and split into eight northern and eight southern groups. There’s one academy team in each of the 16 groups.

The tournament is unique as there are no draws in the group stages. If a game ends in a tie, penalties are awarded, and the winning team receives two points, while the losing team receives one.

The top two teams advance to the knockout round, which consists of straight knockout matches all the way to the final. Again, if the scores are tied, no extra time is played, and penalties decide each match.

The only exception is the final at Wembley, where 30 minutes of extra time will be played before penalties if the scores are level after 90 minutes.

The EFL Trophy final is usually held at Wembley Stadium on the second weekend of April.

Peterborough United and Bristol City are the most successful teams in EFL Trophy history, having won it on three occasions each.

The Posh are the only team to have won the EFL Trophy consecutively, a feat they achieved by winning it in 2024 and 2025.

Here’s a list of the previous ten winners of the EFL Trophy:

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When your account is up and running, check the odds and decide which team you think will win the EFL Trophy this season. You should then decide how much to wager and place your bets.

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You can bet on the team you think will win the EFL Trophy at any time of the season. Check the latest odds at the top of this page before making your selections.

The easiest way to bet on the winner is to place an outright wager, and if your team wins the trophy at Wembley later in the season, you’ll win a payout.

Alternatively, if you can’t quite decide who will win but you fancy a team to go the distance, place an each-way bet on the EFL Trophy winner at Parimatch.

If your team makes it to the final, you’ll receive a payout of 1/2 odds, even if they don’t lift the trophy at the end of the game.

Parimatch is the home of football betting in the United Kingdom, offering extensive markets and competitive odds for all major British football leagues.

However, if you favour the excitement of knockout cup competitions, we also offer odds and betting options for all domestic cup competitions in the English football pyramid.

Alongside EFL Trophy odds, we offer odds for the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Trophy, and FA Vase. These cup competitions often pit the biggest teams in England against minnows of the game, offering exciting betting opportunities.

You may even bring the outright winners of these tournaments into an accumulator bet to increase your potential returns and to add excitement to your betting slip.