EFL Trophy Winner Betting Lines

The history of the EFL Trophy stretches back to the start of the 1983/84 season, as the FA and the soccer League aimed to create a competition for smaller sides to win an EFL recognised trophy.

It was initially formatted as the soccer League Group Cup, before becoming the soccer League Trophy in 1992 and laterally the EFL Trophy in 2016.

The EFL Trophy has received huge attention for its wide range of sponsorship deals over the years across industries as diverse as paints and pizza.

Whilst the competition attracts some level of novelty, soccer League Trophy outright betting does represent an exciting market. Here at BetVictor, we have all the odds you'll need when it comes to an EFL Trophy outright bet, with prices on every team competing.

As the EFL Trophy offers the chance for lower league clubs to taste the glory of a Wembley final, the betting is always worth keeping an eye on. Battling through the rounds, alongside the balancing act of a demanding league season, can be difficult, but the rewards can be massive if you go all the way to the final.

As with any cup competition, the most popular EFL Trophy betting market is predicting who will be crowned as outright winners at the end of the campaign. At BetVictor, we've got EFL Trophy outright odds on every single team from League One and League Two that is competing. Things tend to heat up as the final stages roll around in the second half of the season and calling a winner can often be a lottery.

Harry Redknapp famously won the first ever title with his Bournemouth side in 1984 at Boothferry Park in Hull. Following its permanent move to Wembley since then, either side of a seven-season hiatus at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, we've seen numerous different champions.

Bristol City have established themselves as the EFL Trophy's most successful side with three title wins in 1986, 2003 and 2015. They also endured final losses in 1987 and 2000, to Mansfield Town and Stoke City respectively.

When betting on the EFL Trophy outright winner, looking for a pattern of success may not be the best option, as no team has ever defended their title. Instead, we tend to see a different winner every year. And with the drama of 2020's final taking place just 24 hours before 2021's, who said this wasn't a competition packed with drama and intrigue?

Changes in format in recent years have seen bigger teams, with a longer history in the soccer League come to the fore as the competition's more likely winners, although 2020 winners Salford City certainly have something to say about that.

Since 1999 onwards, the EFL Trophy has proven to be a springboard for league success and promotion up the soccer League ladder into the Championship and on to the promised land of the Premier League. Can Salford emulate the success of the likes of Wigan Athletic, Stoke City and Swansea City, who all won the tournament in the 20th century before going on to bigger and better things?

Wigan won a fairy tale FA Cup final against Manchester City in 2013, alongside a runner's up spot in the 2006 League Cup. Stoke City reached the 2011 FA Cup final and Swansea City won the 2013 League Cup.

Whilst Bristol City's famous red and white are the trophy's most worn colours, there have been other flickers of domination over the years, with Blackpool, Carlisle United, Birmingham City, Port Vale, Wigan Athletic, Stoke City and Swansea City all winning it twice.

So, when it comes to the EFL Trophy outright Soccer Betting markets, it's all to play for.