Livescore Bet  Review

If you have been in the sports betting world long enough, you probably have come across the LiveScore brand. More commonly associated with the live sports update, LiveScore has gradually morphed into the sports betting niche with LiveScore Bet.

LiveScore Bet is a child of the LiveScore Group. The former was launched in 2020. LiveScore Group, a publicly traded company founded in 1998, also owns Virgin Bet and LiveScore.

Since its launch, LiveScoreBet has commendably penetrated the top of the UK betting industry, presenting a slew of betting markets and exciting offers.

In this LiveScore Bet review, we will analyze this betting site. Among other critical aspects, we will examine their reliability, banking options, welcome offer, sports market coverage, and customer support.

As we previously established, LiveScore Bet is owned by LiveScore Group. With over 20 years in operation and a sprawling customer base distributed over 200 countries, the LiveScore Group has consolidated its integrity in the sports business.

Of course, having LiveScore Group as its owners is not singularly enough to make LiveScore Bet reliable. This explains why LiveScore Bet went the length to secure regulatory licenses from the UK Gambling Commission, with license number 56859.

The UK gambling community agrees that this gambling regulator has the highest requirements for transparency and integrity.

LiveScore further cements its credibility with additional operational licenses from the Government of Gibraltar, with regulation numbers RGL No. 122 and 123.

eCOGRA is the alternate dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism for LiveScore. This means if you have disputes with LiveScore that the bookmaker doesn’t adequately handle, you can escalate your complaint to eCOGRA.

LiveScore Bet notably partners with responsible gambling organizations like GamCare and GambleAware. GambleAware is one of the leading gambling addiction resources in the United Kingdom. This organization invests a lot in educating punters to bet responsibly.

Aside from the advocacy to bet responsibly, cybersecurity has rapidly become a priority in contemporary online betting. It pleases us that LiveScore Bet leverages 128-bit encryption – further fortified with SSL certificates –to protect the integrity of any personal and financial information you share on the website.

The LiveScore Bet takes after the characteristic black and orange theme we have come to know the LiveScore brand for.

The website is built with HTML5 technology. This makes the website less selective of web browsers, neater, and more responsive.

The homepage’s top is adorned with the LiveScore Bet logo. At the right are the Login and Join buttons dressed respectively in black and orange backgrounds.

On the far left side is the range of markets on offer. At the other end is your bet slip which populates up as you place your bets.

The sections stood out clearly with the sports market illuminated in grey against the black background. We were also thrilled with the mobile version of the website.

The responsiveness and loading speed levels clearly showed that LiveScore Bet’s engineers invested quality time in getting it right.

The rich desktop experience was closely duplicated on the mobile site. The resolution spectacularly matches your phone screen, giving you sharp graphics, a distinct layout, and fast-loading icons.

Such speed was critical when placing live bets on the mobile version of the site. The markets available are carefully curated. You can readily access livescore bet promotions on offer, and stream events live.

The mobile casino experience is another aspect where LiveScore Bet scored an A. Casinos – as we have seen with many other bookmakers – given their heavy graphics and designs, struggle to load up on mobile. We didn’t experience such lags with LiveScore Bet.

We love how straightforward the LiveScore Bet registration process is. The site’s user-friendliness ensures you can readily open an account with zero IT background.

The first step is to visit the LiveScore Bet website, say from your computer. If you are more comfortable with your smart device, you can launch the LiveScore mobile betting app.

If on the desktop version of the website, the Join Now button is positioned at the homepage’s upper right side. Clicking on it leads you to the first page of the registration procedure.

This section is devoted to collecting personal details from you. You will have to provide your legal name, email address, and date of birth.

Upon completing this page, you proceed to the second, providing your contact information. The last page is where you choose your account details like username and password.

Next, click on the “Create Account’ button after checking the terms and conditions box.

Ordinarily, most bookmakers will allow you to start placing bets immediately, only waiting till you want to withdraw earnings before they request verification.

But on the LiveScore Bet, the verification exercise is as early as you open your account. Without this prerequisite fulfilled, you will be unable to load funds into your account.

Verifying your account on LiveScore Be is no big deal either. When you click on deposit funds, a tool appears on the screen via which you can upload your verification documents.

The eligible documents are your passport, bank statement (which can be deputized for by a recent utility bill), and your driving license.

Submit any two of these, and you are good to go.

After receiving these documents, LiveScore Bet will validate the originality and, if successful, open up the channel for you to fund your account.

Your Livescore Bet account is now fully fledged and functional for use. You can go on to deposit and start placing bets.

Without mincing words, we found LiveScore Bet’s welcome offer dissatisfactory. LiveScore offers new customers £20 in free bets if they make a minimum qualifying bet of £10.

This is not the most attractive welcome offer you can get in the UK sports betting market. First, the entry limit is too steep for the relatively meager free bets return.

A package like £5 (as a qualifying bet) to get £20 or £30 free bets would have been more befitting as a LiveScore Bet welcome offer. Investing £10 to redeem just double that in free bets (£20 as LiveScore Bet offers) is not the juiciest offer to pull customers in.

Let us also add here that if you registered your LiveScore Bet account between 8th April 2022 (18.00) and Saturday 9th April 2022 (18:00), you are disqualified from this free bets welcome offer irrespective of satisfying the qualifying bet and the other conditions.

But on a more positive side, this offer has a more extended expiry date than market standards when it comes to free bets. On a significant fraction of betting sites in the UK, their free bets expire seven days after issuing them (if you are yet to use the free bets).

For LiveScore Bet, the free bets stay as long as 14 days in your account. The minimum odds of the event you can bet on is 1.5 (the fractional equivalent of 1/2).

How does LiveScore Bet compensate for this?

LiveScore richly rewards loyalty. There is a bevy of mouthwatering promotions across the sports betting and casino categories.

Notably, LiveScoreBet offers a unique SQUADS game to customers. Here, your team comprises at most five players.

Now, any time these designated players score a goal in listed matches, LiveScore credits you with cash.

A prize wheel determines the amount you earn for each goal scored. This wheel is unveiled after your final player is identified.

We can’t say LiveScore Bet has an outlandish array of sports markets. We are at least confident that their collection of markets will assuage the basic English punter.

From our investigation, we found that this bookmaker offers a little over 30 sports markets. Favorites among UK punters like football, horse racing markets, basketball, greyhounds, and tennis are generously covered.

We loved how LiveScore Bet UK also catered to the “minorities” in the betting communities. Yes, LiveScore provides sumptuous betting markets for less popular sports like futsal, darts, and speedway.

Inevitably, football betting is the market where LiveScore UK offers the largest markets. This is not out of place, given that football is the most prominent sporting staple in the UK.

A Premier League football match on LiveScore Bet can come with hundreds of football betting markets, from multi-match specials (garnished with mouthwatering price boosts) to handicaps and ACCAs.

Of course, this bookmaker’s football offerings are not only limited to the UK market. Livescore Bet judiciously covers matches as far as Asia and the Middle East.

But there is even more than football on the catalog on LiveBet Score.

If you are among the swelling bandwagon of esports enthusiasts, LiveScore Bet has got attractive sports betting possibilities for you.

Famous titles like Dota 2, League of Legends, Kings of Glory, Starcraft, and CounterStrike are extensively covered.

Lastly, we loved how LiveScore Bet sportsbook dived out of the sporting circles to cover unconventional markets like politics and entertainment. This bookmaker presents exciting betting markets on some of the major political happenings across the globe.

Events as supposedly remote (for a UK punter) as who emerges as the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party in far-away Sweden are covered on LiveScore Bet.

We will score Livescore Bet average here. Compared to bookmakers like Betfair, 888Sports, and William Hill, LiveScore’s Bet left a lot to be wanted.

That doesn’t mean they fell flat – just fair and not spectacular. But then, when you sprinkle in LiveScore’s price boosts, the dish becomes more delicious.

LiveScore has some of the most enticing enhanced odds we have seen. This was especially in the Premier League and major horse racing tournaments like Royal Ascot and Cheltenham Festival.

For the betting limits, the least you can stake on an event on LiveScore Bet is 5 pence. This applies to just any sports market on this betting site.

Yes, we agree that you can get sites that allow you to bet as low as 1p. But from our experience, the majority of bookmakers in the UK have 10 pence as their minimum stake, with some as high as 50 pence.

This positions LiveScore Bet among the top bookmakers when graded with the lowest minimum stake threshold.

On the other end, there is no definitive maximum stake on LiveScore Bet. We saw the upper cap varied with the event.

Typically, your bet slip notifies you if your stake is higher than the designated upper limit for that event.

This is pretty much the tradition with most bookmakers in the UK.

Livescore Bet has a rich array of in-play betting markets. These markets stretch from football to basketball, horse racing, cricket, tennis, and hockey.

As of the time of writing, LiveScore Bet UK amazed us by providing in-play betting markets in relatively unpopular markets (for UK punters) like the Finland Kansallinen Liiga Women tournament and Lithuania’s A Lyga soccer league.

We were also appreciative that every live bet on LiveScore Bet is provided with cashout options. This provided a crucial way to bail out of an event that is not going to plan.

If you are deep into horse racing, you would be massively entertained with the live streaming options on LiveScore Bet.

This bookmaker goes the distance, offering live streaming service on just any horse racing event happening in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Ireland, and even South Africa.

But is this free, you may ask?

No. As typical of UK bookmakers, you need to stake to enjoy a live stream. In the case of LiveScore Bet, the entry is quite low.

A minimum stake of £1 (on the match you want to live stream) is required on LiveScore Bet. This is the equivalent of betting 50pence each way.

LiveScore Bet UK doesn’t completely throw you out if you don’t meet this financial threshold. You can yet enjoy computerized visualization of the horse racing event at zero cost.

If at the end of a horse race you wish to watch the event again, you can use the Meetings tab on the website. Via this feature, you would simply select the event you want to watch, and there you go enjoying the replay!

There are other sports you can live stream for free. The list includes soccer, hockey, basketball, tennis, and more. At any given time, you can check the sidebar menu on the homepage.

Note that the live streaming feature is accessible even on the mobile version of the site.

Mobile apps are the in-thing among bettors globally. The flexibility of jumping on enticing betting markets on your smart device via the app is one big attraction LivesScore offers.

The LiveScore Bet app works on iOS and Android.

Compared to the desktop experience, there is not much to miss on the livescore app. The bulk of the markets is accessible on the LiveScore Bet app, from football to horse racing and tennis.

Livescore app users can also tap into the promotions on offer and even play the LiveScore Bet SQUAD game at no cost.

The live streaming facility on the mobile app is one place where LiveScore bet UK stands tall above its rivals. There are many horse racing events for you to stream on the app.

We also recognize the length this bookmaker went to make the app secure. You can restrict access to the LiveScore Bet app by setting your fingerprint or face only to log in.

Overall, the livescore app was excellent, with an intuitive design, a neat layout, and fast load times.

LiveScore Bet needs to do more to improve its banking options. This is particularly given the shortage (compared to other bookmakers) of electronic payment channels available

With the profusion of digital banking, fintech platforms like Neteller, Skrill, and Paysafecard are commonly patronized by bettors because of the speed and seamlessness at which transactions are executed.

Therefore, it is unfortunate and impeding that banking options on LiveScore Bet are currently limited to bank transfers, debit cards (Visa and Mastercard), PayPal, and Trustly.

Note that it was only recently this bookmaker started accepting Paypal.

When we were putting this review together, this bookmaker didn’t accept deposits (or withdrawals) via cryptocurrency.

The minimum and maximum deposits are the same across the board. Regardless of the channel you go with (debit card deposits or not), the least you can deposit on LiveScore Bet is £10.

At the start, Livescore Bet operated with a maximum deposit of £10,000. It has upgraded this upper limit to £20,000.

The same £10 and £20,000 apply respectively to the minimum and maximum allowable withdrawal. This works well for high-stake punters.

Deposits on Livescore Bet are instantaneously executed regardless of the channel you go with. Withdrawal, on the other hand, takes some time – depending on the payment gateway you use.

Withdrawals on Paypal take far less; in most cases processed instantly. Withdrawals via Visa take about two to three hours.

Mastercard withdrawals are executed within 1-3 business days. Bank withdrawals can go longer. Averagely, they take 2-3 business days. But in exceptional cases, it can stretch to five working days.

Yes, LiveScore Bet has broad casino offerings. While we have focused more on the sportsbook, LiveScore Bet’s casino games are no less exciting.

There is enough to party in for casino enthusiasts, from slots, roulettes, and jackpots, to BlackJacks. The RTP is generally fair.

Aside from the games, the LiveScore Bet’s casino promotions are worth drooling about. There is the five free spins daily offer.

Here, LiveScore Bet offers you five free spins every day that you can maximize on Frog of Riches. You need to wager £10 every day from Monday to Thursday on either Frog of Riches, Mammoth Mayhem, or Elephant King.

There is also the epic Massive £250K Jackpot Party II. Here, you are free to select any Mega Moolah Slot game.

Next, for every £5 you bet on this slot, LiveScore Bet UK will reward you with an entry into the £250K Jackpot Party prize draw.

LiveScore Bet’s customer support is a soup of positives and negatives. Starting with the positives, this bookmaker has a comprehensive collection of resources to help with your queries.

There are sections like My Account, Technical, Promotions, Responsible Gambling, etc. Each of these sections curates relevant articles to guide you.

For example, in the Banking section, you can find further 21 articles (as of the time of writing). These were split into 10 resource articles for deposit and 11 for withdrawal.

If your query is more specific and needs a more personalized resolution, you can reach out to the customer support team via email or the live chat functionality.

The live chat comes at the lower left region of the screen on the page listing the various resource categories.

We admit it would be a bit problematic for new users to find the live chat.

As we see with many other bookmakers, an easier approach is to position the live chat widget (preferably as a speech bubble) at the top right of the homepage.

We tested the customer support team via live chat. While they were courteous and enlightened, we wished they could be faster in their responses.

If you prefer email correspondence, you can email LiveScore Bet’s customer reps via support@livescorebet.com. There is also the option of over-the-phone support.

You can call the customer support reps via 0808 164 3700.