How to play Soccer 13
13 matches. You pick one of three results in each match. Every pool pays at four levels, so your ticket does not have to be perfect to be worth something.
Every line on this page shows where it came from. Some lines are what the operator states on its own pages. Some are what this site checked against published data. Some are things nobody publishes at all. Checked Wednesday 29 July 2026.
Soccer 13 in four numbers
- Matches on the card
- 13
- Picks per match
- 3
- Payout levels published
- 4
- Settled pools on file
- 38
These four are counted from the operator's own published data. Nobody types them in, so they follow the product if it changes.
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A pool ticket and a bookmaker bet are different products. If what you want is a bet on one of these matches on its own, at a price you can see before you stake, that is a licensed South African bookmaker rather than a pool.
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The operator states
The operator says this on their own how to play page, read Wednesday 29 July 2026. This site has not checked it.
- Who actually runs the pool
- TAB runs Soccer 13 with Svenska Spel in Sweden. TAB states that Svenska Spel hosts the pool and that Svenska Spel rules apply. So this is the one product on this site whose rules are not purely South African.
- Why the South African close time is earlier
- South African pools close two hours before the official close time. TAB batches the South African bets and sends them to Svenska Spel, to be pooled with the host pool. Our fixtures page shows the South African close times, which are the ones that matter to you.
- What a ticket costs
- The betting unit is R2.00. TAB notes that this price moves with the exchange rate, because the pool is a foreign one.
- What happens to an abandoned match
- A Soccer 13 match is not voided if it kicks off before the pool closes, or if it is not completed normally. TAB states that a random computer draw decides the result instead, from 16 possibilities. 10 soccer experts each supply a result, and each of the three possible outcomes goes in twice. This is unusual, so know it before you enter.
- Small payouts
- A payout of R15 or less is not paid out. TAB states that it carries the money forward into a later pool instead.
- What the operator claims about the Saturday pool
- TAB advertises an average Saturday pool of R20 million and an average payout of R2 million. It also advertises a guaranteed R10 million where a single ticket has all 13 correct. Those are operator claims on an operator page. We have not checked them.
Checked here
This is worked out from the operator's own published data. The check is a script in this site's repository, so anyone can run it again.
- What 1, 2 and 3 mean
- 1 is a home win, 2 is a draw and 3 is an away win. We checked this against every settled pool on file.
Here is the count behind that check, for Soccer 13 alone: 38 settled pools and 493 comparisons. Each one puts a published symbol against the published score of the match in that spot. Every one agreed. Another 1 matches were published as void.
Not published anywhere
Things you would want to know that no public source states. They are written down as gaps rather than filled in with something that sounds right.
- The published split does not match the published payouts
- The TAB page on the pool split describes a 70 and 30 division between all 13 correct and any 12 correct. But the settled results we collect publish four levels, at 10, 11, 12 and 13 correct. The same page means those four when it says four chances to win. Nobody publishes the exact percentage behind each of the four levels, so we print none.
Before you enter
A pool ticket is a game of chance. Most tickets in every pool win nothing. No amount of form study changes that a pool pays out of a shared pot, not at a price you agreed. Decide what you are willing to lose before the pool closes, and stop there.
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This week's card is on Soccer 13 fixtures. What the last pools paid is on Soccer 13 results and payouts.
Questions
How does Soccer 13 actually work?
13 matches. You pick one of three results in each match. Every pool pays at four levels, so your ticket does not have to be perfect to be worth something.
What does a Soccer 13 ticket cost?
The betting unit is R2.00. TAB notes that this price moves with the exchange rate, because the pool is a foreign one.
Do you have to get every Soccer 13 result right to win?
No. Across 38 settled pools on file, Soccer 13 paid at 10/13, 11/13, 12/13 and 13/13 correct. The amount at each level changes every pool. It depends on the size of the pot and on how many tickets got to that level.
Is a pool bet the same as a bet at a bookmaker?
No, and the difference matters. In a pool bet every stake goes into one pot, and the pot is shared between the winning tickets. So nobody knows what a ticket pays until the pool closes and the matches finish. A bookmaker prices each match on its own and shows you that price before you stake. A cheap pool ticket needs a lot of results to go your way. A single match bet at a known price is a different product with a different risk.
Where can you actually enter a Soccer 13 pool?
With TAB, which runs the pool. You can enter at its outlets, on its telephone service or on its own website. SoccerBetting SA is not the pool operator, takes no bets and holds no money. This page tells you how the game works and what this week's card is. You place the entry with the operator.