Company overview and background history
SportyBet is an up-and-going ambitious young bookie that entered the Nigerian betting market back in 2018 year and currently has more than 480 000 active playing customers. This gambling operator’s services are fully related to sport and include sport, jackpot game, live bets and virtual sport bets.
It’s a curious fact that the bookie’s official ambassador is Nwankwo Kanu, himself. The world champion among youths and the golden medalist from the Olympic Games, as well as the trophy winner in the Championship League and a champion for Nigeria, Holland and England is probably one of the most reputable names in the world history. And guess what – he’s an official representative of SportyBet bookie.
The betting company operates in other African markets, too, and some of their websites even precedes the one made for Nigeria. SportyBet’s team shares that they always make in-deep studies regarding customer needs in any country they want to work aiming to satisfy the local audience. The company’s representatives also share that Nigerian punters, for instance, mostly insist on high odds, which, according to us, is true, no doubts, but it’s also true that this bookie has succeeded in offering some of the best odds in our country, so we can be confident when telling that it has made its promise to provide a product that corresponds to the local audience’s needs.
What type of bets does SportyBet accept?
SportyBet accepts only sport bets, but the platform actually has numerous types of different bets.
The main form of a bet here is fixed with an exact odd. You will find matches bets more than 150 different bet types, including a live bet, pre-match bet and etc. However, the better odds are for the matches that are listed in the pre-match section.
Especially for the top interesting football matches – those from the Championship League and the Premium League – the betting operator promises to always offer the best odds on the market.
On the other side, though, we find a very small number of sport types. SportyBet provides only 10 different disciplines to place bets on. If you have read the rest reviews in our website related to other betting houses you might have already noted that most of these bookies usually have at least 20 different sport types. Hence, 10 is not such a small number and the lack of sport disciplines like beach football or pesapallo is not such a big deal.
More and more punters have become spoilt by the bookies that offer them the chance for gambling diversification with bets on casino, lottery games and poker. So the lack of such services in SportyBet might be a bit criticized.
The betting company, though, brings some diversification with its fixed odds on a jackpot game where the final prize amount is minimum 10 million of NGN. This tempting prize might be won if you succeed in predicting correctly the final outcome in 12 football matches, but please, bear in mind that this game has sessions on a rare basis.
The virtual sports section is another thing to make your activity on the website more exciting. As a matter of fact, this bookie’s section for virtual bets has positively surprised us especially by the fact that there’s a whole virtual Norway football, which is a total proof for the extra ordinary individual approach this company has towards any customer.
Functions and extras in SportyBet
Among SportyBet’s functions and extras we would like to present you the company’s strongest point before everything else – this is the amazing cash out service that’s provided not only in its traditional full amount, where you can either close your entire bet, or do nothing, but also in a form of a partial cash back thanks to which you get the right to split the pending bet – one part to close at a particular moment and the other to use to wait for the end of the match or to close later.
Moreover, in this bookie’s website you will find a specially tailored page with the results of the games and even live scores. The extras, though, are even more as SportyBet has also live stats. You receive them in forms of analysis and comparisons with the last team performances, but they are not so sweet, though. What is more impressive is the part with the live stats in the live betting section as here the betting company literally should follow in real time what’s happening on the field and then to provide them to the customer as a comparison or analysis.
What is SportyBet welcome bonus?
SportyBet has a special new customer program which is a bit more extra ordinary in comparison to any other bookie’s welcome bonus.
According to your first deposit amount you will be signed for one of the six bonus reward plans that are marked with the letters from A to F. Each of these plans has an exact program for deposit bonus usage and calculation.
Of course, right now we don’t expect you to understand this weird welcome bonus strategy, which is why we will give you one simple example. Let’s imagine you fund your account with the most often first deposit amount across Nigerian punters – nearly 500 NGN.
You are signed for the C plan with such a deposit amount. This means that you receive 6 free bets at an amount of 50 NGN each, 2 bets at an amount of 100 NGN each and the requirement to use the bonuses within the next 7 days the following way:
- During the first day after the deposit – 2 bets x 50 NGN
- During the second day after the deposit – 2 bets x 50 NGN
- During the third day after the deposit – 2 bets x 50 NGN
- During the fourth day after the deposit – 1 bet x 100 NGN
- During the sixth day after the deposit – 1 bet x 50 NGN
If you want to make a deposit at a different amount – between 10 and 10 000 NGN – enter the specially tailored page called Promotions and you will see which plan SportyBet will sign you for.
This bonus, though, is just the beginning of the company’s bonus system. Most of the rest special offers are, though, temporary, and you will see them modified or replaced with new promotions. However, we should get to know you with other 2 permanent bonuses:
- 50 NGN bonus if you refer a friend
- 135% Multiple bonus
How to play in SportyBet?
First step – registration
The registration in SportyBet is available for every sport lover who is at least 18 years old and accessible via the button called Register / Log In in the mobile version or via Register button only if you use the desktop website version.
You will literally pass this step for a couple of seconds, because the betting operator wants from you only two things – provide your mobile phone number and select a password (it shouldn’t be very easy, but, still easy enough to remember)
Then, hold your mobile phone till you receive SMS code. Enter this code in the special field you will see. This code is a guarantee for the bookie you don’t use a fake mobile phone number.
Besides the code field you will see a button to press in case you want a new code (it’s useful to know you have it if you don’t receive the first code within a minute or two).
With these two little details you enter during the registration process you will later login your account. Meanwhile, you can also use the function to connect with the bookie via your Facebook profile. In this case you will not have to enter anything.
Second step – deposit
SportyBet is proud to offer some of the fastest financial transactions across Africa and what is even more impressive that withdrawals here also take not more than 5 seconds.
You can make a deposit for at least 100 NGN through any of the big banks in Nigeria, or via Visa, Verve and Mastercard.
Third step – placing a bet
To turn your predictions into official bets with a potential chance to make profits, you should go to the menu Sport or Live Betting where you can use the filters for sport, league or time of the bet. If you don’t know what exactly you want to place a bet on, we strongly recommend you to start your trial with the offers listed in Highlights.
Let’s accept you have chosen the event you want to place and eventually you find it among the big list of available markets in this bookie. Then, you have to mark the event, select a bet amount between 100 and 2 million of NGN and last, but not least, to press Place Bet at first and then, Confirm.
Right after these simple steps you will receive a message where you will be told that your bet is accepted. One bet can be declined in case right at this same moment the odd was changes or the market was blocked. It happens more often in the live betting section.
Downloading SportyBet mobile app
SportyBet mobile app is one of this company’s big thing to be totally proud about. The betting house, as a matter of fact, has disclosed that more than 100 software specialists have been working on the software aiming to design something really fast that brings smooth customer experience. The app is equipped with special functions like save data option and if you want to, you can receive notifications every time you win a bet.
You can download this betting house’s app through SportyBet official website and to be more specific from the top right corner where you will see a button that speaks of an app.
What do customers think about SportyBet?
It took only a couple of months for the betting house to double the number of its official customers and this is something that clearly shows the Nigerian audience’s opinion about SportyBet. We do love placing bets with high odds and this is something the bookie provides us, no doubts. The high entrepreneurship level and the technology advance this company focuses on are also pros that have brought it success, but still, the punters hope to see an expansion of the service portfolio soon.