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Brazilian Serie A Betting Guide
The Brazilian Serie A is Brazil’s highest level professional football league. The league attracts audiences throughout Latin America due to the flamboyant style of football favoured by many Brazilian clubs, and nurtures an endless supply of talent that all too often move on to Europe’s top football leagues.
The Serie A has undergone a number of format changes during the past decade, and recently adopted the European League model. This entails 20 Brazilian clubs contesting two rounds of home-and-away matches against each of the other clubs in the league.
The top four clubs in the league qualify for the Copa Libertadores, whilst another eight clubs qualify for the Copa Sudamericana. At the conclusion of the league season the four clubs at the bottom of the Brazilian Serie A table are relegated to Serie B.
Brazilian Serie A Betting
The Brazilian Serie A season takes place during the Northern hemisphere’s off season, which means that it enjoys a relatively high profile in the football betting markets operated by UK bookmakers during this period.
Top bookmakers like Bet365 and Sportingbet open live Brazilian Serie A betting markets for each match, ensuring access to a variety of high-value markets. The majority of bookmakers also offer antepost outright winner betting markets during the Brazilian Serie A off-season.
Because the Brazilian Serie A is one of the most competitive and open top-flight leagues in world football, it is recognised as providing great value in antepost betting markets, with at least seven clubs in contention for the title each season.
Brazilian Serie A History
Brazil adopted a nation-wide league structure at a relatively late stage, considering that it is such a football-mad nation. For decades Brazilian club football was dominated by regional championships centred in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.
This was mainly due to the logistical problems presented by having to move clubs around in a large country which lacked adequate transport infrastructure.
The Brazilian Serie A was first contested in 1971 when improvements in transport, as well as the intervention of Brazil’s military dictatorship, made such a tournament feasible for the first time.
In subsequent decades the tournament format was somewhat haphazard and subjected to spontaneous revisions and rule changes. The current, European-style format was introduced in 2003, and has added considerable stability to Brazilian domestic football.
The Brazilian Serie A recently introduced limits on foreign player recruitment to advance the development of local talent.
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