BoyleSports Review

It's not even the most famous Irish online bookmaker available to UK punters, but BoyleSports gives Paddy Power a serious run for its money on many key metrics, and outperforms it on several.

Choose BoyleSports for:

📺 Horse racing and football live streaming

🤝 Fantastic range of payment options

🛠 Bet builders with exclusive special offers

📱 Super clean design and high quality mobile apps

It’s not the most exhilarating branding we’ve ever seen, but BoyleSports’ online sportsbook has a clean look to it. It’s the sort of design that screams:

‘Screw the fancy stuff, we get the basics absolutely spot on’. 

BoyleSports certainly does get the basics right, but it offers a lot more on top.

Horse racing and football betting - the most important for UK punters - are fantastic at BoyleSports, with interesting markets, well thought out market presentation, and numerous special offers available.

Decent odds relative to the other big names on the UK market are a plus point, as are the availability of ‘combine your odds’ options on outright markets and special offers integrated into Bet Builders.

Speaking of offers, BoyleSports boasts one of the most useful Best Odds Guaranteed deals around: Punters can lock in best odds the day before the race.

It also wouldn’t be the worst idea to delete TikTok to make space for the BoyleSports app on your mobile devices of choice - it’s a good effort on both iOS and Android.

Finally, BoyleSports scores highly on the ‘admin’ side of sports betting, namely customer support and banking options.

Find another bookie if you don’t like

• No Asian Handicap markets
• Some shop-only promotions

We’re pretty greedy here at Bookies Bonuses. We want our online bookies to have absolutely everything. That means we can be pretty picky when highlighting drawbacks, and these two certainly are picky drawbacks to highlight at what is otherwise a very good online bookmaker.

Firstly, the lack of asian handicaps is a mark against BoyleSports. These markets are so useful both pre-match and in-play and it's always a shame not to see them available.

BoyleSports has a long bricks-and-mortar history, with about a billion (well, roughly 300) shops across Ireland and several dozen high-street locations in the UK. With that in mind, we do get why some of its offers and promotions are exclusively for shop punters, but it’s still a bit of a shame to be excluded from some deals as an online user.

If you’re looking for a new sports betting account and you haven’t already signed up with BoyleSports, we reckon it should be pretty high up your list (and not just because of the generous welcome offer).

Read on for the low-down on this bookie and find out exactly why the staff at Bookies Bonuses love using it. 

BoyleSports has been around long enough to know that you need more than just good odds and a great selection of markets to keep those bets flowing.

Offers are a key part of any online bookmakers’ armory and there are plenty to take advantage of at BoyleSports.

Free bet offers are bread and butter for most UK bookies, so it's no surprise to see BoyleSports offering them to new and existing customers alike.

Footy punters are especially well catered for with the BoyleSports acca loyalty offer (£5 free acca for every five accas placed), acca insurance (free bet if your 5+ leg acca loses by one leg), and a Bet Builder with built-in special offers that can be activated.

Fans of racing can also utilise one of the better best odds guaranteed offers in the UK market as well as other fairly typical offers like free bet if 2nd to the SP favourite.

The main criticism that we would have of BoyleSports’ offers is that some of them are only available offline (i.e., if you walk into a BoyleSports shop on the high street). Not something that would stop us using this bookie, but something worth remembering nonetheless.

BoyleSports is a big name in UK and Irish racing. The branding is a common sight at racecourses across these isles, and it’s been a main sponsor of the Punchestown Festival for more than a dozen years now.

The BoyleSports big bosses clearly spend big bucks on racing marketing, but they also clearly spend plenty on developing the actual racing sportsbook product itself, ‘cos it’s a good’un.

A standout feature is the live streaming available on selected races.

Just stick at least a quid on any market in a race marked with the little video icon and you can watch the live pictures from the comfort of your own home (or the bus seat, lunch canteen, or wherever else you place your bets from).

It would be nice to have a bit more preview information on the racecard view (like you can get on other bookies that integrate Spotlight data), but we’re splitting hairs a bit there. The racecard view overall is perfectly fine and it does show recent price history for each horse which, to be honest, is more useful than preview blurb.

We love the different options available at BoyleSports for racing punters. In addition to the standard or typical bets, for some of the bigger races BoyleSports takes bets on markets like:

• Betting W/O Fav
• I-Bet 4 Places (see description in the image above)
• Jollies V Rags (will the winner come from the runners selected by BoyleSports in the Jollies group or the Rags group?)

BoyleSports Best Odds Guaranteed

Did you really think we were going to chat about BoyleSports’ UK online horse racing offering without mentioning the best odds guaranteed offer? Come on…

You can secure BOG at BoyleSports as early as the day before the race.

BoyleSports allows punters to lock in the best price on their selection as early as the day before the race. We think this a fantastic deal as pretty much all other BOG offers on the market at the moment only offer BOG from the morning of the race (Bet365 is the only big-name bookie that, like BoyleSports, offers BOG from the day before).

Although not at the same levels of the UK mega brands like Bet365, Ladbrokes, Betfair, and Paddy Power, BoyleSports has been a recognisable name in British football betting for a long time now.

Pepe Reina probably won’t be signing up for a BoyleSports account any time soon.

Remember that Darren Bent goal for Sunderland against Liverpool in 2009 that deflected off an inflatable beach ball on its way past Reina? Yep, Darren had a big BoyleSports logo on his shirt.

BoyleSports probably could have made a quick buck selling branded beach balls outside the Stadium of Light on match day for the next few weeks but, instead, it (sensibly) pursued the more sustainable long-term strategy of building a smashing online football betting product.

Match selection is excellent - it would be fairly tough to find a game worth betting on that isn’t available at BoyleSports. You’re pretty much covered unless you want to back your local Sunday league team or take unders in the Maltese third tier, or something.

The are, of course, the usual markets like match odds, over/under lines, and lots more. There are unfortunately no asian handicap lines, but the availability of ‘combine your odds’ options on first goalscorer markets which allows you to back up to three players at the same time is pretty sweet.

There’s a decent chunk of footy that you can stream live on BoyleSports.

The availability of live football streaming is often something that can help you tell the serious bookies apart from the pretenders. BoyleSports is a serious bookie. Streaming looks great on both desktop and mobile at BoyleSports.

If you’re not streaming, other data are available to help shape your betting angle. For example, we like the ‘verdict’ view which shows you where ‘weight of money’ is (in other words, what the distribution of bets on each outcome is in a particular market).

That sort of insight can help you find value in an under-backed team, or perhaps help you identify a heavily backed team (that you don’t know much about) to add to an acca.

The Bet Builder is one of the best bits of BoyleSports’ online football betting offering. Not only can you create your perfect bet from scratch, you can also pick from a stack full of pre-built same-game multis.

Integrated special offers take the BoyleSports football Bet Builder to the next level.

Most online bookies offer some variation of a Bet Builder these days, allowing punters to combine several markets in the same match to create a bespoke bet. BoyleSports’ addition of special offers to their Bet Builders is really neat - you can double your winnings or get money back after a near miss if you choose to take advantage of these offers.

I’m awful at golf but I'm a pretty sharp golf punter and BoyleSports is definitely one of my preferred destinations for wagering on the big tournaments (and the little ones, too).

Like on selected footy betting markets, the ‘combine your odds’ option on golf futures bets really allows you to change your approach to these bets.

You can cover not just 1, but 3 of the favourites and still get offered a price worth taking.

The range of markets is once again very extensive, with basic tournament outrights supported by more interesting markets like ‘top 4 finish in all 4 majors’.

To most Brits, GAA sports look absolutely crazy.

If you crossed Aussie rules with field hockey and rugby you might get something close to hurling, and if you swap the hurley for a football, you’re not far off Gaelic football (the two games are played on same pitch dimensions and with the same goals).

It’s certainly not the most popular sport to bet on in the UK (we’d be surprised if it was in the top 15), but BoyleSports has a proud Irish history and is therefore unsurprisingly one of the best places to wager on your favourite GAA sport while on British soil.

UK punters signing up for a new account at BoyleSports can get £20 in free bets and 10 casino bonus, with this nice sign up offer:

BoyleSports Welcome Offer - How to Claim:

1. Click the 'Claim' button above and set up a new BoyleSports account.
2. Deposit and place a qualifying bet of at least £10 at odds of 2.0 (1/1) or greater.
3. Receive 1 x £20 free bet token and £10 casino bonus funds

BoyleSports looks just as clean, if not cleaner, on mobile as it does on the good old fashioned desktop monitor.

Dedicated mobile apps for both Android and iOS mean British punters can get a more immersive experience on mobile than is offered by the humble mobile web browser.

BoyleSports App

As we’ve mentioned before on our reviews, we reckon a shoddy betting app is worse than no app at all. That means big brands like BoyleSports have to be careful not to half-bake their dedicated Android and iOS efforts.

Thankfully, the tech nerds at BoyleSports have put so much pash’un and desire into developing these apps that they’ll be in a Neil Warnock starting XI before they know it.

Jokes aside, the apps are decent - they run smoothly, key functionality works well and all the same bits and bobs you can access on the desktop are there in the app, too.

Customer service at BoyleSports is clearly more than a simple regulatory afterthought.

There are plenty of different ways to get in touch - email, telephone, live chat, social media and, of course, you could always walk into a high street shop if there’s one close.

BoyleSports Live Chat

Having 24/7 live chat support is a flex in the UK online betting scene. But it also has to actually be useful and the agents well trained and knowledgeable.

That is the case with BoyleSports - in our experience the customer support agents were quick to respond to our live chat queries with helpful answers and useful links.

You have to hand it to BoyleSports. Not only have they put together a genuinely top quality online sports betting site, but they’ve also got a whole load of casino games under the same roof for you to check out after the final whistle.

If you’ve got an account at BoyleSports, you’ve got access to a Casino, Live Casino, Games, Vegas, Bingo Poker, and Lotto online products.

The games on offer are much the same as you can find at many of the other casinos operated by leading sportsbooks. You certainly won’t be left wanting more options - there’s absolutely tons here to keep even the most Vegas-obsessed Brits occupied.