Last updated: 29 September 2026
BTTS is on almost every football coupon, and it’s the rare market where the scoreline, not the winner, decides the bet. That’s also why a late own goal or a goal in extra time can leave you unsure whether your slip has won.
The BTTS meaning in betting is short: it stands for “both teams to score”. The settlement rules behind it are where the arguments start, so this page covers both.
Key Takeaways
- BTTS is a yes-or-no bet on whether both teams score in the match.
- It ignores who wins, so a draw and an away win can settle exactly the same way.
- Power.Win’s sportsbook rules page shows how football markets settle, including which minutes of a match count.
- Draw no bet and double chance are its closest cousins, and each one treats the draw differently.
- One timing rule settles more BTTS disputes than any other, and the first table puts it on a real scoreline.
This table shows how a BTTS bet settles on five final scores, one of them after extra time.
| Final score | Score the bet settles on | BTTS Yes | BTTS No | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–1 | 1–1 | Wins | Loses | Both teams scored |
| 2–0 | 2–0 | Loses | Wins | The away team didn’t score |
| 0–0 | 0–0 | Loses | Wins | Neither team scored |
| 3–2 | 3–2 | Wins | Loses | Both teams scored; the winner doesn’t matter |
| 1–0 after extra time (0–0 after 90 minutes plus added time) | 0–0 | Loses | Wins | Extra time doesn’t count unless the market says so (Soccer 1.1) |
The second column is the regular-time score, added time included. That column is why the last row catches people out.
This second table sets BTTS beside the three match-result markets it’s most often confused with.
| Market | What you’re betting on | Outcomes that win | When your stake is refunded | Rulebook clause |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTTS (both teams to score) | Whether each team scores at least once | Yes: both score. No: at least one team scores zero | Not in normal settlement | Soccer 1.1 (regular time) |
| Draw no bet | One team to win | Your team wins | The match ends in a draw | General rules 4.5.8 |
| Double chance | Two of the three results at once | 1X, 12 or X2, whichever pair you pick | Not in normal settlement | General rules 4.5.11 |
| 1X2 | One of three results | 1 (home), X (draw) or 2 (away) | Not in normal settlement | General rules 4.5.1 |
What does BTTS mean in betting?
BTTS means “both teams to score”, a bet on whether each side scores at least one goal, with Yes and No as the only two outcomes. It’s one of the most common BTTS soccer markets because you never have to pick a winner.
You’re betting on a condition, not a result. Yes wins when the home team and the away team each score at least once. No wins when at least one team finishes on zero. The winner and the total goals don’t matter.
A 1–1 draw, a 2–1 home win and a 4–3 away win are three separate outcomes for a 1X2 bettor. For a BTTS bettor they’re the same Yes.
How does a BTTS bet work?
A BTTS bet works like any single bet: you pick Yes or No, the sportsbook quotes decimal odds, and a winning bet returns your stake multiplied by those odds. Nothing else in the match changes the payout.
Worked example: $20 on BTTS Yes at 1.80
- Bet: $20 on BTTS Yes
- Odds: 1.80 (decimal)
- Return if both teams score: $20 × 1.80 = $36, which is $16 profit plus the $20 you bet
- If either team doesn’t score: you lose the $20
- Implied probability: 1 ÷ 1.80 = 55.6%
Implied probability is the chance the price assumes. At 1.80, the sportsbook is pricing both teams to score at a little over 55%. That’s a reading of the price, not a forecast of the match.
Now suppose BTTS No on the same match is priced at 2.00, an implied 50.0%. Add the two sides and you get 105.6%, not 100%. Those extra 5.6 points are the overround, the bookmaker’s margin built into both prices.
If you’re used to American odds, our guide to what +200 and −300 odds pay converts between the formats.
Bet in crypto rather than dollars and the maths doesn’t change: the return is still your stake × the odds.
What are BTTS Yes, BTTS No and win and BTTS?
BTTS Yes wins if both teams score, BTTS No wins if at least one team doesn’t, and “win and BTTS” combines the two: your team has to win a match in which both sides score. Each is a separate market with its own price.
Here’s the BTTS family as the markets appear on a football event, with what each one needs.
| Market (name on the event page) | What has to happen | A score that wins | A score that loses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both teams to score: Yes | Each team scores at least once | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Both teams to score: No | At least one team scores zero | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| 1st half – both teams to score | Both teams score before half-time | 1–1 at the break | 1–0 at the break, even if it ends 2–2 |
| 1×2 & both teams to score (win and BTTS) | Your pick wins, and both teams score | Home wins 2–1, you backed home | Home wins 2–0, you backed home |
| Total & both teams to score | Both the total line and BTTS land | Over 2.5 & Yes: 2–1 | Over 2.5 & Yes: 3–0 |
| Both teams to score in both halves | Both teams score in the first half, then both score again in the second | 1–1 at half-time, 2–2 at full time | 1–1 at half-time, 2–1 at full time |
Win and BTTS is usually priced longer than a plain win because it adds a condition: a 1–0 win loses it.
On the Power.Win sportsbook, a Premier League match checked on 29 September 2026 listed all six of these markets on its Main tab. The same tab carried 1×2, double chance and draw no bet. Market lists change from match to match.
Checked on Power.Win’s sportsbook on 29 September 2026.
How is BTTS different from over 2.5 goals?
BTTS asks whether both teams scored; over 2.5 goals asks whether the match produced three or more goals, whoever scored them. The two often land together, but not always.
- 3–0: over 2.5 wins, BTTS Yes loses, because one team scored all three.
- 1–1: BTTS Yes wins, over 2.5 loses, because there were only two goals.
- 2–1: both win.
Totals carry their own rule: if the count lands exactly on a whole-number line, the bet is void, per General rules 4.5.3. A half-goal line such as 2.5 can’t land exactly.
What does draw no bet mean?
Draw no bet means you back one team to win, and if the match ends level your stake comes back instead of losing. Power.Win’s General rules 4.5.8 say that when a match has no winner, “the stake will be refunded”.
You give up the draw as a winning outcome, and the price shortens to pay for that safety net. Here’s how it plays out with $20 on the home team, draw no bet, at 1.60:
- Home win: $20 × 1.60 = $32 back, $12 profit
- Draw: your $20 is refunded
- Away win: you lose the $20
Say the same team is 2.10 in the plain 1X2 market. The gap between 2.10 and 1.60 is what the refund costs you.
What is double chance in soccer betting?
Double chance lets you cover two of the three match results with one bet: 1X (home or draw), 12 (home or away) or X2 (draw or away). Power.Win’s General rules 4.5.11 list exactly those three options.
Covering two results means you win more often and get paid less when you do. Put $20 on 1X at 1.30 and you get $26 back if the home team wins or draws. You lose only if the away team wins.
On 1X or X2, a draw is a win. On draw no bet, it’s a refund. On 12, it’s the one result that loses.
What does 1X2 mean?
1X2 is the three-way match result market: 1 is the home team, X is the draw and 2 is the away team, as General rules 4.5.1 define it. Draw no bet and double chance are both built from it, and on football it settles on regular time.
Do extra time and own goals count for BTTS?
Extra time doesn’t count for BTTS unless the market says it does, but own goals do count. Soccer rule 1.1 in Power.Win’s rules settles match bets on two halves of regular time, including added time, and excludes extra time and penalty shootouts unless expressly stated.
Extra time and penalty shootouts
The soccer rules don’t give BTTS a clause of its own, so Soccer 1.1 governs it (General rules 3.10 puts sport rules ahead of general rules).
Added time is part of regular time, so a goal in the 94th minute counts. The IFAB Laws of the Game, Law 7 sets a match at two equal halves of 45 minutes, with time lost added on.
Extra time sits outside that. Law 10 allows two periods of no more than 15 minutes each when a competition needs a winner. A goal there doesn’t touch a BTTS bet settled on regular time, which is the 1–0 row in the first table. Penalty shootouts are taken after the match has ended.
A market whose name includes extra time is the exception, so read the name before you bet a knockout match.
Own goals
An own goal counts toward BTTS, because it’s a goal on the scoreboard for the other team. The IFAB Laws of the Game, Law 10 defines a goal by where the ball goes, not by who touched it last.
Soccer 1.3 ignores own goals only for player goalscorer markets, such as anytime goalscorer, and for markets that number goals in sequence. It doesn’t take them off a team’s score.
Say a home defender turns the ball into his own net at 1–0. It’s 1–1, and if that’s the final score, BTTS Yes wins. An anytime goalscorer bet on an away striker gets nothing from that goal.
What licence should a crypto sportsbook for football show?
A crypto sportsbook for football should show its licensing authority, its licence number and the company that operates it, usually in the site footer. Licensing bodies differ from one site to the next, so the useful check is whether those details are there, specific and consistent.
What to look for before you bet on football:
- Licensing authority and licence number, written out in full
- Operating company, with the country it’s incorporated in
- A published rulebook with numbered clauses, so you can check how BTTS, draw no bet and double chance settle
- Responsible gambling tools you can set yourself
Power.Win is the worked instance: it’s licensed by the Tobique Gaming Commission, licence 0000209, operated by 3-102-968317 SRL (Costa Rica).
Its football settlement rules sit on the Power.Win sportsbook rules page, with numbered clauses such as Soccer 1.1 and General rules 4.5.8. The background to that licence is in our explainer on who licenses Power.Win.
A licence number doesn’t settle whether you can bet from your location. Rules on online sports betting vary by country and state, and section 5 (“Who Can Play”) of Power.Win’s terms names the countries it doesn’t accept real-money players from. Check your local law and that section before you place a bet.
Checked on Power.Win’s footer and rules page on 29 September 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GG/NG the same as BTTS?
Yes. GG (“goal goal”) is another label for BTTS Yes, and NG (“no goal”) is BTTS No. They settle the same way, on the regular-time score under Soccer 1.1. Power.Win’s sportsbook lists the market as “Both teams to score”.
Is BTTS a good bet?
That depends on the price, not the market. At odds of 1.80, both teams have to score more than 55.6% of the time just to break even, and the bookmaker’s margin sits inside that price. No staking pattern removes that margin.
Can I put BTTS in a parlay?
Yes. BTTS can go in a combo with selections from other matches, and every selection must win (General rules 4.4.2). Related outcomes can be voided in a combo (General rules 6.11), and same-match picks go through Bet Builder instead (4.4.13). More in our guide to parlays and combo bets with crypto.
What happens to BTTS if the match is abandoned?
Under General rules 5.5.5.5, a match not completed within 48 hours of its official start voids its bets, except outcomes the score has already decided. Applying the rule’s own example, BTTS is decided once both teams have scored: Yes wins and No loses. If one team hadn’t scored when play stopped, neither side is decided, so both are void.
Sources
- Power.Win, Sportsbook rules. General rules 3.10, 4.4.2, 4.4.13, 4.5.1, 4.5.3, 4.5.8, 4.5.11, 5.5.5.5 and 6.11; Soccer 1.1 and 1.3. Read 29 September 2026.
- Power.Win, Sportsbook. Premier League event, Main tab: the six BTTS markets, 1×2, double chance and draw no bet. Checked 29 September 2026.
- The IFAB, Laws of the Game, Law 10: Determining the Outcome of a Match. 10.1 goal scored, 10.2 extra time, 10.3 penalties.
- The IFAB, Laws of the Game, Law 7: The Duration of the Match. Periods of play and time lost.
- Power.Win Blog, What +200 and −300 odds pay.
Take the Lead, Gamble Responsibly
Knowing how BTTS settles tells you what you’re betting on. It doesn’t turn football betting into income, and the bookmaker’s margin sits inside every price you take. Decide what a matchday is worth to you before it starts, and stop when you reach it.
Power.Win’s responsible gambling tools let you set daily, weekly or monthly deposit limits, put wagering limits on your account and take a self-exclusion break from three months to five years, or indefinitely. The same page points you to independent support.
By the Power.Win Editorial Team.