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Bookies favourites to win the 2024-25 UEFA Conference League

Published: Updated: 09:52, 29 Jan 2025
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The third-tier European competition has a clear outlier with a 100% record at the end of the initial league phase

As we enter the business end of the season, attention turns to silverware and who will be lifting it. One trophy attracting many fans to use top betting sign up offers is the UEFA Conference League.

As the pack has already been whittled down by 12, and another 8 are soon to drop out with them following the upcoming knockout playoff phase, the chasing pack is becoming clearer and clearer to see.

Among plenty of smaller clubs from across Europe, many of whom are enjoying their first taste of continental action, is a small selection of elite powerhouses who will surely be making up the quarter and semi-finals in a few months.

Here are the favourites to lift the UEFA Conference League according to the bookies.

Chelsea (4/6 favourites)

Far and away the biggest club in the competition are Chelsea. Enzo Maresca's side boasts an embarrassment of riches in every area of the pitch and has the squad depth to comfortably compete on multiple fronts. The likes of Joao Felix and Jadon Sancho are often part of the "B team" and feature in this competition.

It's difficult to see how any other club in the running can compete with them. The financial gulf is so vast that the gap in quality is impossible to ignore. Chelsea have won two Champions League trophies in recent memory, and now they are in the third-tier competition. Many will see them not winning this as a drastic failure. Perhaps that undue pressure could be their undoing but it's unlikely.

Fiorentina (5/1)

Beaten finalists for the last two editions, Fiorentina, are the best bet if any team is going to usurp Chelsea. Having lost to West Ham United and Olympiakos in the last two years, the Serie A giants will hope they can make it third time lucky if they reach the final this time around.

They do have plenty of quality in their squad and if it weren't for Chelsea they would rightly feel very confident they could get the job done.

Real Betis (8/1)

Such is the difference in club size and quality in this competition that a team which hasn't even made the top 8 and still has to navigate a playoff round is still the third favourite to win the whole thing.

Real Betis face a two-legged playoff against Gent if they want to make the last 16, which is by no means an easy task. However, given the quality in their team, they are expected to do so and join the rest of the clubs on this list. Once through to the knockout phase, they have as good a chance as any of going to the final and maybe even winning the whole thing.

Vitória de Guimarães (14/1)

Guimarães finished second in the league phase behind Chelsea. Despite this strong run of form, they are not favoured to keep it up across the knockout phase in the same way that bigger clubs like Fiorentina and Real Betis are.

Nonetheless, they are considered an outside shot, a flyer. Portugal has produced some of the finest young players and coaches in the world of late, and Vitória de Guimarães will hope to take that reputation to a new level by winning European silverware. They will have to defy all the odds if they want to do so.

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