LiveScore Bet Review: What Its Prices Cost You Per £100 Staked

The margin is the overround: add up the implied probability of every outcome in a market and a fair book totals 100%. LiveScore Bet totalled 109.88% on average, and that surplus is the charge. Expressed against your stake rather than against the fair book it comes to £8.99 per £100 — the two figures measure the same thing from different ends, which is why both are printed rather than one.

In this window the keenest book measured £5.67 per £100 and the dearest £10.58. LiveScore Bet sat £3.32 above the keenest end and £1.59 below the dearest. Its immediate neighbours were LeoVegas just keener, and Virgin Bet, level on price.

Every figure in that table is also Virgin Bet’s, to the penny: the two published the same prices in all 58 markets, so one per-competition table serves both brands. Read across it and the span inside LiveScore Bet is 6.44 points, from 5.38% on ATP Canadian Open to 11.82% on Championship — and holding an account at both brands does nothing to narrow it.

These are arithmetic on the measured margin, not a prediction about anyone’s results. What happens to individual bets is a separate matter entirely; the margin is the part that is known in advance and charged whatever happens.

The third column is the same turnover at the keenest margin in this window, Betfred. At £5,000 staked the gap is £166 a year — worth setting against whatever the sign-up offer is worth, because one is charged every year and the other arrives once.

Across the 58 markets both brands priced in this window, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet published the same set of prices 58 times. Not a similar average — the same numbers, market after market.

That only means something next to what ordinary pairs do. Of the 153 pairs of books compared in this sample, the median pair agreed on 1.8% of the markets they both priced. The closest pair that did not match everywhere was William Hill and 888sport, at 44 of 57. Two books running separate trading desks disagree constantly, even when their averages land within a hundredth of each other.

The reading is a shared pricing platform. That is an inference drawn from the prices, not something the Gambling Commission’s register records, and it is set out here as such. The two are separate licence holders on the register, so whatever they share is not the licence.

For a bettor the practical consequence is short: holding accounts at both brands adds no choice of price in these markets. It is the same book twice.

LiveScore Bet is a brand, not a licensee. The Commission licenses LiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited under account 56859 for remote betting on real events, and every price measured on this page was published under that licence. The account has held it since June 2020.

Nothing else is registered against that account: livescorebet.com is the only active domain on the licence. In a market where one licensee often carries a dozen brands, that is worth noting rather than assuming.

The Commission’s register of regulatory actions currently lists nothing against LiveScore Betting and Gaming (Gibraltar) Limited. That is what the register shows on the date we checked it, 7 August 2026, and not a judgement about the operator: matters age off the register over time, and an absence today is not a guarantee about the past.

Where an operator in this study does carry an action, it is printed on its own page with the date and the published outcome, whether or not we earn from it.

16 of 18 puts LiveScore Bet in the dearest third of the table. That is one capture window, one market type and 5 competitions, so it is a finding about this sample rather than a verdict on the operator. A different basket would produce a different order, and saying so is not a hedge — it is what the method page commits us to.

The full table, exchanges included, is on the register; how the figure is calculated is on the method page.

There is no link to LiveScore Bet on this page. We hold no arrangement with it and it earns us nothing, which does not change how it was measured or where it appears in the ranking.