SportPesa Review

SportPesa was founded in 2014 and has its headquarters based in Nairobi in Kenya. They are owned and operated by Pevans East Africa, a company with shareholders from Bulgaria, Kenya and the United States. SportPesa is very much a football/soccer biased betting site. They invest heavily in sponsorship into African football and currently have partnerships with four English football clubs including Hull City, Arsenal, Southampton and Everton where they are a major sponsor. They have a very simple bonus that you can take advantage of with a “Bet 10 Get 10” promotional offer. As well as the standard sports and casino offerings, they have a very strong live betting offer, this covers all the major European football leagues as well as a wide range of 30+ other sports that can be bet on.

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Deposit & Withdrawals

SportPesa have four main deposit options available to customers, these are Visa, MasterCard, Neteller and Skrill. Deposits are immediate for both card transactions and e wallets while wWithdrawals take 2-3 days. Currencies accepted include: GBP, EURO

Customer Service

Live Chat: Available Email Customer Service enquiries: [email protected] Send your documents to: [email protected] Post SportPesa 2nd Floor Athol House, 21a – 23 Athol Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 1LB If you have any customer support queries please use the form on their site or email them at [email protected]

License Information

For customers in the UK, Bet365 licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission

Difference between decimal and fractional odds. Decimal odds are quite straightforward to understand, all you need to do is take the decimal number, lets say 4.0, and deduct 1 which would give you odds of 3/1 or if the odds were 2.75 this would equate to 7/4 in fractional terms. Fractional odds are the more common odds format used in the UK. So lets take the price above of 7/4 as an example, which is seven fourths, so four fourths (quarters) would be one of course, and this leaves you with three fourths (quarters) giving you 7/4.

Betting limits

At SportPesa there are certain betting limits in place. The minimum deposit amount is £5 if using a debit or credit card and £20 if you are using an e wallet like Neteller or Skrill. The maximum deposit is £5000. The minimum withdrawal is £5 The maximum withdrawal is £5000 per day. The maximum you can win in any one day is £50,000.

What are the minimum and maximum stakes I can make?

The minimum bet accepted is 0.10p or currency equivalent. The maximum differs between sports, markets and bets. You will see the exact value specified in the field where you enter the stake amount, when placing a bet.

Types of bets

SportPesa offer a whole range of bets to cater for all types of punter including: Singles, Combos and Accas and Live In Play. SportPesa offer “Live” betting on a wide range of events, with football being predominate in their offering. They focus on the major European football leagues and a key factor in their “Live” offer is something called “Last minute bets”

Many bookmakers will only show upcoming live events taking place that day but with “Last minute bets” you can see events that are just about to finish. This means you are in a position to take either very short odds as a low risk bet or very high odds as a higher risk play.

Sport coverage

A wide range of betting opportunities with 33 sports offered. SportPesa have a big focus on football betting due to their sponsorship involvement in the sport.

In-play experience

When you go to the main sports section of the site, all current football matches are available and this is good start but ifv you click a match and then decide to go back, it does not take you to the list on in play events but to the home page. In play experience needs some work.

Live streaming

SportPesa do not currently offer live streaming on their site.

The SportPesa website has only recently been changed. It was very old and not attractive at all. They have now integrated a much simpler design which has given the site a very fresh look.

When you reach the site now, you are met with a simple landing page with the main menu at the top and below that you have just two options and these are Sportsbook and Casino. It means your choice is made very simple and of course in this review we are looking at the sportsbook.

The interface itself is nice and clear with a lot of white space used in the main market section and on the left you have the menus using a blue and white colour scheme.

Their is an issue with the left hand menu as it does not show all sports at the top and these are actually below the fold which is not user friendly at all.

First you have “quick picks” then “live betting” and then “todays events” which means you cannot get to a sport quickly. You need to scroll down to find the list of sports. The other thing which is a negative is that the scroll bar on the left side of your screen is a light grey on a plain white background, this makes it very difficult to find the scroll bar with your mouse.

In terms of site speed we would say it is average, it certainly seemed to take a couple of seconds to load up the main sports betting page.

Outside of the main betting content they also run a blog but when we checked this only had posts about Football which of course will not appeal to everybody.

The odds offer at SportPesa is reasonably competitive on football. SportPesa are involved in the sponsorship of a number of teams and this is where their core strength lies with a margin which tends to be in the range of 4.3 – 4.5%

Betting on other sports is not as good with horse racing being a weak sport for them. The other sports where they focus a lot of their in play sports betting is on various tennis markets and again they work to a margin here which is normally under 5%.

As we said, the main sport for SportPesa is very much football, They have sponsorship ties with some very big clubs including: Everton F.C. in the premier league and Torino F.C. in the Italian leage.

Looking at the amount of markets. It is usual to find 100 plus different markets on the larger leagues and games, but there is also a good coverage on a lot of minor leagues. You can bet on 122 different leagues across the world.

One thing that is really good with SportPesa is that they have games and markets priced up with odds two weeks in advance, so it gives you a chance to place accumulator or combo bets over two different weeks of football. This gives football punters a great way of placing multi selection bets and combo bets as well.

The In-play and Live interface is probably one of the best parts of the site. The layout contains “Big” and “Bold” text so you can easily find your favoured event and prices and odds are clear as well as current scores.

It is also easy with just a single click to reach all markets for a game or event. Once you click for all markets then the page changes layout and has your list of live events in the left hand column with all the markets from your selected event now clearly laid out in the middle column.

A really good live interface and their fast markets are very good with lots of “next minute” action.

Bonuses and promotions are weak on SportPesa with only the basic sign up offer which is Bet £10 Get £10 and they also provide “Best Odds Guaranteed” on the UK and Irish horse racing markets.

The good thing about the welcome bonus is that it does not have such stringent wagering requirements like some other bookmakers bonus offers.

There are no play through requirements. You can only use the bonus on a single or single line combo bet. Odds must be 1.8 or higher and your initial qualifying bet and use of the £10 bet token must be within 5 days.

It is very easy to deposit and withdraw with SportPesa although their are limited payment options. You can use VISA, Mastercard, Neteller or Skrill.

Reasonably OK response times which were less than a minute and the operator was both knowledgeable and courteous and seemed very knowledgeable. We made the point about the left menu and the response was that it would be passed to their development team. It was nice to see a technical questionbeing dealt with in the correct way.

If you have any technical queries then it is good to post them in chat and see if your feature requests will go through to a tech or development team for further analysis.

SportPesa were founded in Kenya

Our UK website is operated in partnership with TGP Europe Limited. TGP is a company with long history and extensive experience providing technical and operational support under a license issued by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission (under the Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001) and by The Gambling Commission of Great Britain (under the Gambling Act 2005).

They provide a responsible gaming platform and personally tailored support for vulnerable individuals. In order to protect their customers they are in full compliance of the Governing Laws and Regulations, including player registration procedures and the gathering of required Know Your Customer (KYC) information. They also adhere to strict Combating Financial Crime (CFL) and and Anti Money Laundering (AML) policies to ensure the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ultimately the safety of their clients.