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Sports & competitions on BetFinder
From football and tennis to darts and esports: how the sports sidebar works, league drill-downs, live counters, and the rugby Union/League toggle.
Updated 2026-06-07 · BetFinder team
BetFinder’s coverage follows the Betfair exchange: wherever the exchange runs an active marketon a sport we carry, it can appear on the board. That takes you a long way past football — tennis, horse racing, cricket, basketball, boxing, baseball, golf, MMA, esports, rugby, darts, motorsport and American football all share the same board, the same probabilities and the same honesty rules.
This guide covers what that means in practice: how the sidebar organises every sport, how you drill from a whole sport down to one competition, how the two rugby codes are handled, what changes on a phone, and how races and golf tournaments — events with a field of contenders rather than two teams — fit on a board built around fixtures.
The sports on the board
The board mirrors the exchange’s live catalogue for the sports BetFinder carries, so the honest answer to “how many games?” changes through the week rather than being a fixed number. Today the sidebar runs from Football, Tennis and Horse Racing through Cricket, Basketball, Boxing, Baseball, Golf, Mixed Martial Arts, Esports, Rugby and Darts to Motor Sport and American Football. A handful of niche exchange categories are deliberately left off so the board stays focused on markets worth modelling. Because the catalogue is live, coverage breathes with the calendar — counts swell at weekends and during big tournaments, and a sport in its off-season simply shows a dash until it returns.
Whatever the sport, every game gets the same row: one most-likely pick, a colour-graded confidence chip, an odds chip, and Awaiting price instead of a guessed number when the market has not formed. The betting board guide walks through every element; the demo below shows the row all sports share.
The sidebar: one row per sport
On desktop the left sidebar is your map of the day. Under the Sports heading sits All sportswith the total game count, then one row per sport with its own icon and a count of how many games it has on the board right now — a dash when there are none today. Clicking a sport scopes the whole board to it; clicking All sports widens back out to everything. A sport with markets in-play at this moment shows a Live now note when you hover its row, and the live games themselves carry a green LIVE pill on the board — the live odds guide covers what updates once play starts.
Drilling into one competition
Any sport with two or more competitions on the board gets a small chevron on its row. Click it to expand an inline sub-list of that sport’s competitions, each with its own game count, and pick one to scope the board to just that league or meeting. Clicking the sport row itself clears the league scoping again. Above the sports sits £ Path, the bankroll planner, and below them a Tables & models section links to Football tables — covered in the football tables guide — and Tennis ratings, covered in the tennis guide. The sidebar also collapses to an icons-only strip via its toggle when you want the board full-width.
One Rugby row, two codes
Rugby Union and Rugby League are deliberately merged into a single Rugby row in the sidebar and sport rail, with their game counts combined. When you scope the board to Rugby, the board toolbar grows a Code toggle — Both / Union / League— so you can narrow to one code without hunting for a second sport entry. The toggle only appears in the Rugby scope; the rest of the toolbar (Min prob presets and Sort) works the same for every sport.
On your phone
On phones and tablets the sidebar becomes a drawer: the Open menu button in the top bar slides the full menu in from the left over a dimmed backdrop, and the X or a tap on the backdrop closes it. The contents are identical to the desktop sidebar, never collapsed.
For quicker switching there is also a horizontal sport rail above the board — icon-above-label buttons starting with a starred All, one button per sport, with paging arrows when more are hidden off-screen. Once you scope to a single sport, a second strip appears underneath: an All eventschip plus one chip per competition with its game count, so you can drill from Football to one league — or from Horse Racing to one meeting — with a thumb.
Outrights, races and field events
Not everything on the exchange is two teams and a kick-off. Golf tournaments, horse races and motorsport events are field events: a single titled event with a list of contenders rather than a home and away side. These appear on the board as single-title rows under the Win market, with the favouriteas the headline pick. Expanding the row lists the whole field — each runner shown as Runner (Jockey)for races — with a win chance per contender. Longer-dated outright markets work the same way: one title, one field.
Field events are searchable like everything else: the top-bar search box (Search teams, leagues, races…, focused with Ctrl+K) matches event titles as well as team and league names, so typing a course or tournament name jumps straight to it — see search and filters. Racing has its own deeper treatment in the horse racing guide. To see what the catalogue holds today, open the board and scan the sidebar counts.
Quick answers
How many sports does BetFinder cover?
Around fourteen sport rows today — from football, tennis and horse racing through cricket, golf and esports to darts, motorsport and American football — with game counts that grow and shrink with the sporting calendar. Coverage follows the Betfair Exchange’s live catalogue for the sports BetFinder carries.
Why does a sport show a dash instead of a count?
A dash means that sport has nothing on the board right now — usually an off-season or simply a quiet day. The row stays in the sidebar so you can check back, and All sports always reflects everything that does have games today.
Where are Rugby Union and Rugby League?
Merged under one Rugby row with a combined count. Scope the board to Rugby and use the Code toggle on the toolbar to switch between Both, Union and League.
Can I place bets on these sports through BetFinder?
No. BetFinder never takes, places or holds bets on any sport — it is a research tool. It shows you probabilities, prices and one honest recommendation per game; any bet you choose to place happens with a bookmaker or exchange, on your own account and at your own risk.