Hungary priced at 250/1 to win Euro 2024

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While most of the eyes of the footballing world will be on the World Cup next month, in Hungary, the international focus is on two summer’s time.

A fourth-placed finish in the UEFA World Cup Qualifying Group I saw Hungary fail to qualify for next month’s tournament in Qatar. They missed out on a Play-Off place by just three points to Group I runners-up Poland, who went on to book their place at the World Cup Finals.

Despite the major disappointment, the nation will be buoyed by their recent performances in the UEFA Nations League. Drawn into an extremely difficult group alongside England, Italy and Germany, many anticipated Hungary being relegated to League B.

However, that fate belonged to England, who Hungary thrashed 4-0 at Molineux during the summer. Marco Rossi’s team came within a whisker of winning Group A3 and progressing to the Nations League Finals, eventually finishing second behind only Italy.

Hungary only had to avoid defeat at home to the Italians to progress to the final four in the summer of 2023, but a 2-0 defeat saw the reigning European Champions snatch their place at the death. While that result came with enormous disappointment, the Nations League campaign as a whole showed tremendous progression from a team who were beaten 4-0 at home to England less than a year earlier.

As such, the focus will now be on the qualifying campaign for the 2024 European Championships which start in March next year. Their performances in the Nations League led to them being top seeds for Euro 2024 qualifying as they were drawn alongside Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Lithuania — a group that you would expect them to qualify from.

The top two teams from each group will qualify for the European Championship after the tournament was expanded to 32 teams for the first time in 2016. They face Luxembourg and Greece in friendlies in November in their final fixtures before their European Championship Qualifying campaign begins.

Hungary performed admirably at Euro 2020 given the expectations surrounding them, having put in a group with Portugal, France and Germany. While many experts had expected them to lose all three matches, they proved to be extremely competitive in all of their matches and held France and Germany to draws.

Those interested in betting on Hungary’s fortunes at the Euros would be wise to get them in early given the current value. Nowadays, there is the option to bet on anything online when it comes to sports, from offshore NBA lines to chess tournaments.

A number of soccer betting sites have already begun offering odds on the winner of Euro 2024, despite a ball not even being kicked in qualifying as of yet. One of those is BetVictor, who have Hungary best-priced at 250/1 at the time of writing to pull off an upset and become crowned European champions.

Their showings against England and Germany in particular, as well as their performances at Euro 2020, would suggest that is a price with plenty of value. They are ranked alongside teams such as Finland and Romania at 250/1, both of whom aren’t seeded in qualifying.

Hungary’s squad boasts one of the most promising attacking midfielders in Europe in Dominik Szoboszlai, who has scored six goals in 26 caps for his country at the age of 22. He is also joined in the squad by RB Leipzig teammates Peter Gulasci and Willi Orban.

Should Hungary continue their current form and secure their place at Euro 2024 in a convincing fashion, expect this 250/1 price to crash significantly ahead of the tournament in Germany.