Score Betting in New Zealand — A Complete Guide for 2026

Updated October 2026

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Score betting in New Zealand sits inside one of the tightest gambling frameworks in the world. Since 28 June 2025, TAB NZ and its online sister brand Betcha have been the only operators lawfully permitted to take online sports and racing bets from people in New Zealand, and the Department of Internal Affairs told unlicensed providers to withdraw with immediate effect. For a bettor who wants to back a correct score, a both-teams-to-score line or a same-game multi, that single fact changes the choice set, the rules of the game and the protection that sits behind a losing wager. This page works through what “score betting” actually means, where the action sits, what the margin of the market looks like in numbers and what the offshore brands most punters encounter are worth knowing about.

*Current as of 31 October 2026 · verified against TAB New Zealand’s own terms and the Racing Industry Act 2020 as amended.*

Selection and Comparison: The Top 10 Bookmakers Punters in New Zealand Will Meet

The set below mixes two categories on purpose, because the world a New Zealand bettor lives in contains both. TAB and Betcha are the only two brands that may lawfully take racing and sports bets from people in New Zealand, and they are one operator group under TAB NZ rather than rivals. The remaining brands sit on overseas licences that carry no right to serve New Zealand customers; they appear because a New Zealand punter will meet them in advertising and affiliate content, and a comparison that left them out never matches what the searcher sees. Treat the table as a landscape, not as a recommendation, and never read an offshore row as a lawful alternative.

A punt on a Both Teams to Score line or a correct-score selection with TAB or Betcha is the only wager this article is willing to call lawful. Everything else in the table is here so a reader knows what a brand is, what licence it sits on and what shape of product it offers — not so a reader has somewhere else to send their money.

Fundamentals: What Score Betting Means and Why It Matters in New Zealand

Score betting is a cluster of markets built around how many goals, points, runs or tries land in a game, and in what combination. The two families a New Zealand punter will meet most are both teams to score (a yes/no line on whether each side hits the net) and correct score (the exact final score, paid out at long odds). Around them sit score-anytime, first-half-score, total points and handicaps that effectively move the score before kick-off. They are popular because a single number can swing a multi and because the prices offered on a 1-0 or 2-1 line are large enough to make a small stake worth a mention.

The mechanism sits on top of three things the rest of this page will not let go of. First, the operator sets a price for every outcome and that price carries the bookmaker’s margin — the slice of every dollar bet that the book keeps regardless of the result. Second, the bettor pays a stake and receives a payout if the outcome lands, where the payout is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. Third, settlement runs on what actually happens on the field, the court or the track, and the operator’s own rules decide what counts as a goal, what counts as a point and what happens when a match is abandoned mid-play.

Entain runs the TAB operation under a 25-year agreement signed in 2023. The deal gives Entain a 50/50 share of gross profits and guarantees TAB NZ at least NZ$150 million a year for the first five years, with Entain pledging a one-off NZ$100 million payment to the racing sector when the partnership began. Score betting sits on a bookmaking platform built and kept current by one of the world’s largest gambling groups, and that matters for two reasons the rest of this page returns to: the depth of the markets TAB carries, and the technical sophistication of the in-play product on the app.

Jurisdiction: The Racing Industry Act 2020 and the Section 74AAA Monopoly

The Racing Industry Act 2020 establishes TAB NZ as the sole betting provider for racing and sports in New Zealand. The Racing Industry Amendment Act 2025 inserted section 74AAA, which took effect on 28 June 2025 and states that no person other than TAB NZ may offer racing betting, sports betting or other racing or sports betting to a person in New Zealand, regardless of where that person is resident or incorporated. The Department of Internal Affairs told providers serving New Zealand to withdraw with immediate effect.

There is no licensing route for another bookmaker and no licence register for betting, because there is only one lawful operator. TAB and Betcha are the two lawful online brands of TAB NZ, run under the Entain partnership, and the law treats them as one provider rather than two. The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 licenses online casino gambling only and does not extend the betting monopoly, so a TAB NZ casino licence does not change anything for sports or racing punters.

New Zealand law targets the operator. The Department of Internal Affairs warns that overseas operators may sit in jurisdictions with minimal consumer safeguards, may not return unspent credits and may not pay out large wins. New Zealand does not block bookmaker sites at the network level, but it does put the liability on the offshore operator taking the bet. Section 19(4) of the Gambling Act 2003, inserted in 2025, says an individual may not be convicted for placing a bet with an offshore betting operator in breach of section 74AAA, so no published penalty for a player was found. The honest framing is straightforward: TAB NZ and Betcha are the only lawful option, with New Zealand harm-minimisation tools, regulator oversight and a complaints framework; offshore brands are unlawful for the operator to serve New Zealand, have no New Zealand complaints route and carry the risks the Department names.

Greyhound racing in New Zealand is closing in stages from 1 August 2026. From that date, offshore operators may not take bets on greyhound races either, because the events themselves stop. Racing codes still offered through TAB NZ after that date are thoroughbred and harness racing.

Wellbeing: Deposit Limits, Self-Exclusion and the Gambling Helpline

The age for TAB NZ betting is 18, and betting under 18 is an offence under section 89 of the Racing Industry Act 2020. TAB NZ accounts require a verified New Zealand address and ID. A punter who opens a TAB or Betcha account can set a deposit limit, take a time-out or self-exclude from inside the app, and an exclusion applies across both TAB NZ brands. TAB NZ must keep the risks of problem and underage gambling minimised under its licence conditions, and pays a Problem Gambling Levy of 0.74% in force from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2028.

There is no single national online-betting exclusion register at the moment. The register the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 will require is for online casinos only and does not extend to TAB NZ’s sports and racing product. A punter who self-excludes at TAB NZ has closed themselves out of the lawful market for the period set; offshore brands are not part of the same framework and a self-exclusion at TAB NZ does not reach them.

The free New Zealand Gambling Helpline is 0800 654 655, with a text line on 8006. Safer Gambling Aotearoa runs information and support for anyone affected by gambling harm, and the Department of Internal Affairs publishes the framework and the levy on its website. A bettor who finds themselves chasing losses, betting money set aside for bills, or betting past a deposit limit they set for themselves has crossed the line that the helpline exists for, and a call before the next wager is cheaper than a call after.

The offshore brands on the landscape above are not part of this protection. None of them is reachable by the Department of Internal Affairs, none of them has to honour a New Zealand self-exclusion and none of them is answerable to the Gambling Helpline if something goes wrong with a payout. That absence is the practical cost of placing a score bet through an offshore brand from New Zealand, and it is the one piece of the picture the rest of the marketing does not tend to print.

Bonuses and Free Bets: What TAB NZ and Betcha Actually Offer

TAB NZ runs a Bonus Cash scheme for new customers. The Bonus Cash can be split across multiple bets rather than tied to a single wager, and the app lists a Mega Multi bonus of up to NZ$50 in Bonus Cash when a multi of four or more legs falls short by a set number of legs. The terms behind the headline sit in TAB NZ’s own betting rules and apply to the actual Bonus Cash paid out, the qualifying bets and the timeframe in which the bonus has to be used.

Betcha runs a daily Toolbox of odds boosts and insurance tools for bets that do not land, and a Playbook of match analysis and tips. The Toolbox mechanic is the closest the lawful market gets to a free-bet product, and the insurance-style offers refund part of a stake on a multi that loses by one leg. The Playbook is editorial; it does not promise winners and it is not a substitute for the punter’s own reading of the form.

A note on the offshore brands in the table. Most of them carry a deposit match, a free bet or a free-spin bundle of some kind. Those offers are described in each brand’s own terms and they sit on top of a product that is not lawful to use from New Zealand, which is the larger fact. A welcome bonus that pays out into an account a New Zealand punter cannot legally fund is not a deal. The same logic applies to loyalty schemes, coin shops, VIP clubs and reload bonuses that recur across this set: they exist, they have terms, and they belong to a product a New Zealand address is supposed to be kept away from.

Bonus bets on TAB NZ, in plain terms. A Bonus Cash credit is the bettor’s stake is paid back as Bonus Cash rather than real cash, and the winnings on a winning bet funded by Bonus Cash are paid back in real cash. The Mega Multi bonus pays out when a multi misses by a narrow margin, which is a softer loss than a clean miss but a real loss all the same. Read the qualifying bets, the minimum odds and the expiry on the Bonus Cash before placing the wager that triggers it.

Mobile and App: TAB NZ’s Two Front Doors

TAB NZ publishes its betting app “TAB – Racing & Sports Betting” on the New Zealand App Store under the seller name New Zealand Racing Board, with the app first released on 8 September 2014. The app carries a 17+ App Store age rating and the listing states that customers must be 18 or over to bet, which is the Racing Industry Act’s line.

The TAB NZ app covers horse and harness racing, rugby union and rugby league and other sports, pre-match and live. It carries Same Race Multis, Same Game Multis, one-tap Popular Multis and a Place Extra option that lets punters back runners to finish up to 10th in selected races. The app includes Trackside live race streaming with in-app betting, racing form, Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tools, and a simplified wallet for deposits and withdrawals.

Betcha runs as a separate app and a separate brand, but it sits on the same TAB NZ wallet and the same TAB NZ account framework, so a punter does not need two balances. The Betcha app carries the daily Toolbox of odds boosts and insurance tools, the Playbook of match analysis and the Bet Social section where punters chat, follow tipsters and share bets. The greyhound product on both apps narrows from 1 August 2026 as that racing code closes in stages.

The offshore brands in the table also publish mobile apps, and some of them are slick. That is the honest comparison and it is worth naming: a TAB NZ app is not the slickest piece of betting software a New Zealand punter can download, but it is the only piece of betting software a New Zealand punter can lawfully fund. The Betcha app is the lighter of the two on racing and the heavier of the two on social features, which is a sensible split for two brands running off the same account system.

Live Betting and Cash Out

Live betting on TAB NZ is built around the in-play product in the app: real-time odds updates, score-by-score pricing on selected events and Same Game Multis priced throughout the match. The Bookmaker has not published a general minimum price for live bets, and live prices shift with the state of play. The TAB NZ app publishes live odds for the sports it covers, and the betting rules set out what happens if a live market is suspended mid-event, which is the most common reason a live bet fails to be accepted at the price on screen.

Cash out is a feature a New Zealand punter will see on offshore brands but not on TAB NZ. The closest TAB NZ offers is the ability to lay a counter-bet in a multi, which is a different mechanism: a lay bet creates a new position rather than closing the old one, and the result is two bets open on the same event rather than a single bet settled early. The TAB NZ betting rules describe this in the live-betting section.

The offshore brands in the table carry cash out across most of them. Sportaza offers cash out before an event or market is finalised, Bet Builder with the all-singles-voided-on-one-void rule and interval markets in 1, 5, 10 or 15 minute slices. RTBet offers cash out before settlement, fixes the cash-out amount at the moment it is accepted and does not guarantee that the feature is always available. Alawin’s cash out supports partial cash out, is not guaranteed and is not available on free bets or risk-free bets. These features work, they are widely used, and they are attached to products a New Zealand punter cannot lawfully fund.

Predictions and Strategy

A prediction on a Both Teams to Score line or a correct score is a forecast of a future event. The forecast can be made with form, head-to-head records, expected line-ups, the venue, the weather and the bookmaker’s own prices. None of those inputs make a forecast correct, and no published system beats a bookmaker’s margin over a season of bets. That is the first thing any strategy section has to print, because every other line in this section is qualified by it.

The fantasy of a “correct score system” usually comes down to price. A correct score of 1-0 in a Premier League match will price around 7.00 at a sharp bookmaker, which is a 14% implied chance of landing and an 86% implied chance of missing. Over a season of single correct-score bets, the punter pays the margin on every stake and loses that margin as a slow drain on the bank. The strategies that work in the long run are the boring ones: bet on what you watched, decline markets you cannot price, set a stake size that does not change after a loss.

Both Teams to Score is the friendlier family of the two because the prices are closer to evens and the outcomes land closer to 50/50 in most top-flight football. Even there, the bookmaker’s margin runs at around 5% to 8% across the major leagues, and the punter pays it on every stake. The practical move is the same: pick the matches you have a view on, decline the rest and resist the multi-builder’s urge to add a leg for the sake of a bigger price. A four-leg multi at 2.00 each carries an 11% chance of landing before the bookmaker’s margin, and a six-leg multi drops below 2% before the margin. The Mega Multi bonus on TAB NZ refunds some of that loss when a multi misses by a set number of legs, which softens the hit but does not turn the maths around.

The Playbook on Betcha and the racing form on the TAB NZ app are the closest thing the lawful market has to a tips service. Treat them as one input among several and never as the basis for a bet. A tipster whose followers beat a closing line over a long enough sample is doing something real; a tipster whose followers do not is paying for confidence. The ask is the same as the rest of this section: read the form, watch the game, decline the bet you cannot price.

Bet Types and Odds

The bet types a New Zealand punter meets on TAB NZ sit in two clusters: racing bet types and sports bet types. The racing bet types are Win, Place, Each Way, Quinella, Exacta, Trifecta, First Four, Double, Treble, Daily Double, Running Double, Quaddie and Big6, all settled on the tote or fixed-odds pool as the bet type specifies. The Place Extra option extends Place betting to finishers up to 10th in selected races, which is a TAB-specific extension rather than a standard racing market.

The sports bet types are Win (head-to-head), Line (handicap), Total (over/under), Both Teams to Score, Correct Score, Score Anytime, First Half Score and the multi-bet families. A single bet is one selection at one price. An accumulator is several selections whose odds multiply into one price, paid out only if every leg lands. A Same Game Multi (SGM) is a multi whose legs come from one event, settled together. TAB NZ’s Same Race Multi is the racing version of the same idea.

Decimal odds are the standard format on TAB NZ and across the offshore brands on the table. The decimal odds say what a winning NZ$10 stake pays back: at 2.10, a winning NZ$10 stake returns NZ$21, of which NZ$11 is profit and NZ$10 is the stake returned. The offshore brands on the table also offer American, fractional, Hong Kong, Indonesian and Malaysian formats, with the conversion done at the point of display. A punter who bets in one format is advised to stick to it; switching formats mid-season is a recipe for mis-pricing a stake.

The payout of a winning bet, written in one line. A winning NZ$10 stake at decimal odds of 2.10 returns NZ$21 to the bettor: NZ$10 of stake returned and NZ$11 of profit. The same stake at 7.00 returns NZ$70. The same stake at 1.50 returns NZ$15. The maths is the same across every market, every sport and every brand on the table.

The bookmaker’s margin is what the book keeps of every dollar bet on the market. On a two-way market priced 1.90 / 1.90, the implied chances sum to 105.3% rather than 100%, and the extra 5.3% is the margin: roughly 5% on a sharp two-way line, higher on a less-followed event and lower on a liquid headline market. A worked example using a 1.90 / 1.90 two-way market illustrates the point. The payout share at those prices is 1 ÷ (1/1.90 + 1/1.90) = 0.949, or about 95%; the margin is 1 minus that, or about 5%. On a less competitive line priced 1.80 / 1.95, the payout share is 1 ÷ (1/1.80 + 1/1.95) = 0.934 and the margin is about 6.6%. The band 5% to 7% is where most Both Teams to Score and head-to-head markets land, with correct-score and exotic markets higher because the book has more uncertainty to price in.

Sports and Tournaments

The sports TAB NZ takes bets on are horse and harness racing, rugby union, rugby league, football, cricket, basketball, tennis and a long tail of other codes published in the app. Rugby codes sit highest in the New Zealand market, with Super Rugby Pacific, the All Blacks test calendar and NRL carrying the most volume. Football carries both codes punters will know from the Premier League, Champions League and A-League and codes punters will meet as a Same Game Multi on a quieter fixture list. Cricket sits behind the Black Caps’ international calendar and the major franchise leagues.

Both Teams to Score and Correct Score are predominantly football markets. They are settled on the regular-time score (90 minutes plus stoppage time, extra time excluded unless the bet type says so). Score Anytime is the player-market version, settled on whether a named player scores at any point in the match. First Half Score is settled on the half-time score, not the full-time score. Total goals markets sit alongside the score markets and settle on the total goals scored in the match, with lines typically set at 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5.

The tournament calendars that drive most of the volume on TAB NZ are the Premier League, the Champions League, the NRL and Super Rugby Pacific, with the Melbourne Cup and Cup Day carrying a single-day volume spike that no other racing event on the calendar matches. A New Zealand punter planning a Same Game Multi for the week will most often start with a Premier League head-to-head and build the multi around Both Teams to Score, Total Goals Over 2.5 and a player to score or be carded. The TAB NZ Same Game Multi product supports that shape, and the Betcha Playbook publishes a daily set of selections along the same lines.

Greyhound racing sits on the app today, with the racing code closing in stages from 1 August 2026. After that date, the greyhound product narrows and then disappears from the TAB NZ schedule. A punter with greyhound bets running into the closure window is advised to check the racing schedule rather than assume the bets will run; the racing codes that continue are thoroughbred and harness only.

TAB: The Lawful Monopoly Bookmaker

TAB is the older of the two TAB NZ brands and the one a New Zealand punter meets first. The app covers racing and sports, pre-match and live, and carries the full list of racing bet types and the sports bet types described above. The TAB app’s Trackside streaming is a meaningful product on its own: live race vision with in-app betting and form access sits behind the same login as the sportsbook, which is unusual in the global market and useful for the punter who wants to bet and watch the same event at the same time.

The Bonus Cash scheme and the Mega Multi bonus are the headline promotions on the TAB side. The Place Extra option, which lets a punter back a runner to finish up to 10th in selected races, is a TAB-specific extension and is the closest the racing product gets to a long-tail exotic. The Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tools are punter-ladies’ tools in the strict sense: a Blackbook is the punter’s own shortlist of horses to follow, and a Jockey Challenge is a points-based market on a named jockey’s rides at a meeting.

The TAB app’s weakness, in plain terms, is the depth of the sports menu compared to the offshore brands on the table. TAB NZ carries the sports New Zealand punter actually bets on at a competitive depth, and it does not carry the long tail of smaller leagues and esports that the offshore brands use to fill out the menu. A punter who wants the long tail of international football or the esports calendar will not find it on TAB NZ; the trade-off is the lawfulness of the wager and the New Zealand consumer protection that sits behind it.

Betcha: The Younger TAB NZ Brand

Betcha is the online sister brand of TAB, run on the same TAB NZ account and the same TAB NZ wallet, with the same racing and sports product underneath. The brand difference is the editorial and social layer on top. The Betcha app carries the daily Toolbox of odds boosts and insurance tools, the Playbook of match analysis and tips, and the Bet Social section where punters chat, follow tipsters and share bets or pools.

Betcha is the closer fit for a New Zealand punter who wants the social layer other apps have built. The Toolbox mechanic is a daily set of boosted prices and insurance-style refunds on selected markets, and it is the closest the lawful market gets to the daily-promo rhythm the offshore brands run. The Playbook is a tips section, not a prediction engine, and the value of it sits in the selection of matches the Playbook chooses to write up rather than in any one call inside it.

Betcha’s weakness, named honestly, is the racing product. The TAB app carries the deeper racing menu, the Trackside streaming and the racing-specific tools (Blackbook, Jockey Challenge, Place Extra). A punter whose interest is racing-first is advised to sit on the TAB app for racing and the Betcha app for the daily sports promo and the social features; the wallet is shared, so there is no second balance to manage.

Roobet: A Curaçao-Licensed Crypto Casino and Sportsbook

Roobet is a brand name of Raw Entertainment B.V., a Curaçao-registered company holding Curaçao licence OGL/2024/687/0427. The brand describes itself as a crypto casino and sportsbook, and the licence gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. There is no New Zealand complaints route and no New Zealand harm-minimisation framework that reaches a Curaçao-licensed operator, and the Department of Internal Affairs has named the kind of risk an offshore operator carries: minimal consumer safeguards, no return of unspent credits and no obligation to pay out large wins.

The product Roobet offers, on the offshore side of the world, is a casino-first platform with a sportsbook attached. A New Zealand punter who meets Roobet in advertising will see a casino product and a sports product running on the same account, with crypto funding and crypto withdrawals. The crypto funding is the part the marketing tends to print and the part the Department of Internal Affairs’ warnings sit behind: a withdrawal that goes through a third-party crypto exchange sits outside New Zealand consumer law entirely.

Roobet is not a fit for a New Zealand punter. The licence does not authorise the brand to take bets from people in New Zealand, the harm-minimisation tools are not the New Zealand ones and the complaints route is not the New Zealand one. The brand is named here so a New Zealand punter who meets it knows what it is.

Glorion: An Unlicensed Brand With No New Zealand Footing

Glorion is an offshore brand that offers live chat and email support and accepts customers aged 18 and over. The brand names no licence that applies in New Zealand, and the section 74AAA prohibition sits on top of the brand regardless of where it is incorporated. The Department of Internal Affairs’ warnings about minimal consumer safeguards, no return of unspent credits and no obligation to pay out large wins apply in full.

Glorion is named here so a New Zealand punter who meets the brand in an advert knows what it is and what it is not. It is an offshore sportsbook-and-casino without a New Zealand-facing licence. It is not a fit for a New Zealand punter for the same reason Roobet is not, and the rest of the brand’s product does not change that fact.

Golden Panda: An Offshore Brand With Dedicated Sports Terms

Golden Panda publishes a dedicated Sports Terms and Conditions page that covers fixed-odds betting, Combo Bets, the Bet Builder feature, live scoreboards and broadcasts, and stake and odds limits. The presence of a sports-terms page is a sign of a brand that takes the sports side of the product seriously on its own platform, and it is the kind of detail a punter might look for before signing up to any sportsbook.

The brand holds no licence recognised in New Zealand. A New Zealand punter who reads the Golden Panda sports terms might see the brand’s full product and the rules it operates under on its own platform, and that product is not lawful from a New Zealand address. The fact that the sports terms are well written does not move the lawful-status question: section 74AAA applies to the operator, not to the quality of the operator’s terms page.

Sportaza: Cash Out, Bet Builder and Asian Lines

Sportaza offers cash out before an event or market is finalised, Bet Builder with the rule that if one selection is void the whole betslip is void, multiples, Asian lines and interval markets in 1, 5, 10 or 15 minute slices. The Bet Builder and Asian lines are the parts of the product that distinguish Sportaza from a generic offshore bookmaker, and the interval markets are the part that distinguishes it from a mainstream one.

The brand names an Anjouan licence (ALSI-202606064-FI2), which gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. There is no New Zealand complaints route and no New Zealand harm-minimisation framework that reaches the brand. The Department of Internal Affairs’ warnings apply in full.

Sportaza is a more sophisticated product than the smaller offshore brands on the table, and the product is still not lawful from a New Zealand address. A New Zealand punter who values Bet Builder and Asian lines has a closer lawful fit on TAB NZ’s Same Game Multi product, which carries a narrower Asian line menu than Sportaza but sits on a lawful platform.

RoyalistPlay: A Tobique-Licensed Brand With an English-NZ Site Version

RoyalistPlay is owned and operated by Novatrix SRL, a Costa Rica company with registration number 3-102-893958, and states that it holds e-gaming licence No. 0000002 from the Tobique Gaming Commission. The brand shows odds in European, British, Hong Kong, American, Indonesian and Malaysian formats and has an English-NZ version of the site. The English-NZ site is a translation, not a licence: a brand can publish a New Zealand-English version of its marketing without holding a New Zealand licence, and the section 74AAA prohibition sits on the operator regardless.

The brand is named here because the English-NZ site version is the kind of detail that can read like a signal of legitimacy in a New Zealand punter’s search results. It is not. The signal of legitimacy is the Racing Industry Act 2020, section 74AAA, and the only brands that satisfy that test are TAB and Betcha.

Telbet: A Crypto-First Brand With a Russian-Language Welcome Offer

Telbet describes itself as a crypto casino and sportsbook, with a welcome offer of 200% up to 1 BTC plus 50 free spins and a 5 USDT free bet on its Russian-language site. The crypto-first funding is the headline, the welcome offer is the marketing and the section 74AAA prohibition is the law that sits on top of both. The brand names no licence that applies in New Zealand.

The Russian-language welcome offer is the kind of detail that signals the brand is not built for a New Zealand punter in the first place. A New Zealand punter who lands on the site through an affiliate link is advised to treat the licence question as the first gate and not move past it.

Rabona: A Curaçao-Licensed Soft2Bet Sportsbook

Rabona launched on 23 December 2019 as the sixth online sportsbook of the Soft2Bet group. The Soft2Bet group is a multi-brand operator with several sportsbooks on overlapping licences, and Rabona sits on a Curaçao licence. The brand is a mainstream-shape offshore sportsbook: a long menu of sports, a casino attached, regular promotions and a recognisable sportsbook layout.

The Curaçao licence does not authorise the brand to take bets from people in New Zealand, and the section 74AAA prohibition applies in full. A New Zealand punter who meets Rabona in an affiliate link or a comparison site is advised to treat it the same way as the other offshore brands on this table.

Winz: An Anjouan and Tobique Brand

Winz states in its footer that it holds a licence delivered by Anjouan and Tobique. The footer licence is the standard offshore disclaimer and it does not move the New Zealand status. The brand names no licence that applies in New Zealand and the section 74AAA prohibition sits on top of the operator regardless.

A New Zealand punter who lands on Winz through an advert or an affiliate link is advised to treat the brand as one of the offshore brands on this table and not as a New Zealand-facing option. The footer licence is information about where the brand is incorporated; it is not a New Zealand licence.

How a Payout Works on a Correct-Score Bet

The payout on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A NZ$10 stake on a Both Teams to Score selection at 1.80 returns NZ$18 if the bet lands: NZ$10 of stake returned and NZ$8 of profit. The same stake on a Correct Score selection of 1-0 at 7.50 returns NZ$75 if the bet lands: NZ$10 of stake returned and NZ$65 of profit. The maths is the same on every market and every brand.

The mistake worth naming is the one where a punter reads the profit rather than the return. At 7.50, the profit on a NZ$10 stake is NZ$65, not NZ$75. The bookmaker pays the stake back on top of the profit, and the punter’s bank is the difference. A multi-bet works the same way: four legs at 2.00 each price to 16.00, and a NZ$10 stake returns NZ$160 if all four legs land.

The bookmaker’s margin, written in plain terms. On a two-way market priced 1.90 / 1.90, the implied chances sum to about 105%, and the extra 5% is the slice the book keeps of every dollar bet on the market regardless of the result. On a less competitive two-way line priced 1.80 / 1.95, the implied chances sum to about 107% and the slice is closer to 7%. The same math applies to Both Teams to Score, head-to-head and most markets priced across two outcomes; correct-score and exotic markets carry a higher margin because the book has more uncertainty to price in.

A worked two-way example using 1.90 / 1.90, as the prescribed calculation asks. The payout share at those prices is 1 ÷ (1/1.90 + 1/1.90) = about 95%, which leaves a margin of about 5%. On a more typical competitive line priced 1.95 / 1.95, the payout share is about 97% and the margin is about 3%. The 3% to 5% band is where a sharp two-way line sits on a mainstream event; 5% to 7% is where a less-followed event sits; correct-score and exotics run higher still. The band is the headline of the calculation: expect 3% to 5% on the events punters bet on most.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does a bet on both teams to score work?

A Both Teams to Score bet is a yes/no line on whether each side scores at least once in regular time, settled after the final whistle on the 90 minutes plus stoppage time only. A yes wins if both teams score at least once; a no wins if either side fails to score. The bet pays out at the decimal odds shown when the bet was placed, and extra time does not count unless the market specifies.

How do you place a score bet with a New Zealand bookmaker?

A score bet is placed through TAB or Betcha, the only two brands lawfully able to take the bet from a person in New Zealand. Open an account on either app, verify a New Zealand address and ID, deposit with one of the listed payment methods and add a Both Teams to Score, Correct Score or Score Anytime selection to the bet slip. The slip prices the bet at the decimal odds shown at the moment of placement.

What does correct score mean in betting?

Correct score is a market on the exact final score of a match, paid out at long prices because the number of possible outcomes is large. A 1-0 line in a Premier League match will price around 7.00, a 2-1 line a little shorter, and a 0-0 line shorter still. The bet is settled on the regular-time score only; extra time does not count unless the market says so.

Which bookmaker may lawfully take sports and racing bets in New Zealand?

TAB and Betcha, both operated by TAB NZ under section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020 in force since 28 June 2025, are the only brands lawfully able to take online sports and racing bets from people in New Zealand. Any other bookmaker taking such bets is breaking New Zealand law on the operator side and offers no New Zealand consumer protection on the player side.

How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?

The return on a winning bet is the stake multiplied by the decimal odds. A NZ$10 stake at 2.10 returns NZ$21, of which NZ$10 is the stake returned and NZ$11 is the profit. A multi-bet’s price is the multiplication of its legs, and the same return formula applies to the combined price.

What is the bookmaker’s margin and how does it show in the odds?

The margin is the slice of every dollar bet that the book keeps regardless of the result. On a two-way market priced 1.90 / 1.90, the implied chances sum to about 105% and the extra 5% is the margin. The sharper the prices (closer to 1.91 / 1.91), the smaller the margin; the wider the prices (1.80 / 1.95), the larger the margin.

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