Sportingbet is one of South Africa’s premier betting sites, offering everything from an amazing betting experience to a generous sign up offer.

How to use Sportingbet may be a tricky endeavour if you have never done so before. But don’t fret, that’s why we’re here.

With us, you’ll learn everything involving how to use Sportingbet, so that you’ll be well prepared for everything from signing up to withdrawing your winnings, and everything in between.

Below is a guide of the topics we will cover in this article:

Why you should use Sportingbet

✅ Generous welcome offer

✅ Great odds

✅ Fantastic User Experience

✅ Massive Sportsbook

✅ Great Live Betting Feature

The first, and possibly most important step in the how to use Sportingbet process is learning how to sign up with them.

Without a Sportingbet account, you won’t be able to make any deposits, receive a welcome bonus or do any betting.

Luckily for you however, signing up is probably the easiest step to complete in your Sportingbet betting journey.

In order to complete this hassle free process, you will need some personal information at the ready, as Sportingbet requires a few details to ensure that they are receiving a real person as a new customer.

These details include

1. Your name and surname
2. Your address
3. Your Phone number
4. Your email address
5. Your source of income

As a well as a few other details.

Once you’ve filled in all of the required information, Click on “Create my Account”, which will confirm your decision to create an account with Sportingbet.

Below is a screenshot series to help you see what the steps look like

The next step in learning how to use Sportingbet, is coming to terms with how to deposit money with them.

Whether you’re new to betting and thus new to Sportingbet, or a seasoned punter with a long history of making betting deposits, Sportingbet make depositing with them an absolute walk in the park.

While it could be argued that they could provide a few more deposit methods, they do actually cover some of South Africa’s most popular and convenient deposit methods, ensuring that you will most likely have your payment preference catered to.

If you’re new to Sportingbet, depositing is part of the signing up process. Once you have signed up, you are required to complete the step of making a deposit.

Once you’ve signed up:

1. Click on the deposit method of your choice
2. Enter the amount you would like to deposit
3. Follow the instructions relevant to the deposit method you have chosen
4. Confirm your payment

Below you will find a list of deposit methods that you can credit your Sportingbet account with.

One of the reasons Sportingbet is such a joy to use is the fact that signing up, depositing and getting your welcome bonus are processes that are really simple to complete, and follow on from each other in a really simple, easy to follow manner.

Sportingbet offer all new users a 100% matched first deposit up to R2000.

This means that if you were to deposit R2000, Sportingbet would provide you with another R2000 to bet with, meaning that you would have R4000 in your betting account.

In order to access your welcome bonus, all you need to do is make your initial deposit. Here is how you do it:

1. Click on the green claim button found just above
2. Sign up with Sportingbet
3. Once signed up, choose your deposit method
4. Enter the amount you would like to deposit
5. Follow the instructions relevant to the given deposit method
6. Confirm your payment.

Your welcome bonus will reflect immediately after you make your first deposit.

You will see double the amount you deposited if your initial payment is anywhere up to R2000, anything deposit more than R2000 will be matched with R2000.

How to Play Sportingbet

The next important step in the how to use Sportingbet process is knowing how to play Sportingbet. How to play sportingbet is another term that can be used for how to bet with Sportingbet, and the process will be outlined below.

How to play Sportingbet can be outlined by 5 steps:

1. Find your sport
2. Find your league
3. Find your event
4. Make your selection/s
5. Enter your stake and confirm your bet

Completing the FICA process is the last step in unlocking full account access.

FICA is South African betting sites’ answer to account verification

It involves providing proof of identity as well as proof address to bookmakers so that they can be assured that they are conducting business with a real person.

Sportingbet requires you to upload copies of both sides of your ID card, as well as a proof of residence document.

To FICA with Sporting bet the following steps need to be followed:

1. Log into your Sportingbet account
2. Click on the account icon (where your betting balance is located)
3. Click on Cashier
4. Click on Withdraw
5. Sportingbet will require you to verify your account
6. Click on the document you would like to upload
7. Upload the relevant document
8. Repeat the process for the second document

And that's it. Sportingbet should get back to you about your account being verified after 24 hours.

It wouldn’t be worth learning about how to use Sportingbet if you don’t know how to withdraw money from them. Betting without the possibility of withdrawing your winnings feels a bit pointless.

Lucky for you however we’ll go through the process of withdrawing right here.

To withdraw money on Sportingbet, you need to be logged into your account. You also need to have money available in your Sportingbet account balance.

Lastly and possibly most importantly, you need to have had your account FICA’d. You will not be able to withdraw any money from Sportingbet if you have not had your account FICA’d

If these three things are in place:

1. Click on the My Account Icon, found in the top right hand corner of the screen.
2. Click on Cashier
3. Click on Withdraw
4. Select EFT (it's the only withdrawal method Sportingbet offer)
5. Enter the amount you would like to withdraw
6. Enter the relevant details
7. Confirm

And that’s it! Withdrawing is pretty simple if you’ve completed the FICA process and have winnings to withdraw.

If you like the idea of betting on the go, then Sportingbet might just be the betting site for you. They host a fantastic mobile version, and go a step further than some of their competitors by offering a mobile app that is arguably one of the best out there.

Before getting to know how to use the app, it's important to know how to download the app.

If you’re an iOS user, the process is really simple, but if you're an android user, the app download process may be a little more tricky.

For Apple users, simply go to the app store, search for Sportingbet, and download the app directly.

If you’re an android user however, you will need to visit Sportingbet’s mobile website.

Click on New Android App. Here you will find a list of instructions explaining how to download the app for android. They are:

1. Go to Settings on your device
2. Tap on Security
3. Scroll to “Unknown Sources” and Select it
4. Tap OK to confirm the change
5. Go back to Sportingbet mobile website
6. Click on “Download Now”

Once downloaded, log into your Sportingbet account with the same details that you signed up with. Using the Sportingbet app is identical to using their mobile or desktop version. Placing bets, depositing and withdrawing all follow the same processes.

One part where Sportingbet are slightly lacking is in their customer service offering. While they do provide a detailed FAQ page, if you do not have a query that they have already answered, reaching them may be a tall order.

To access the FAQ page, simply click on the account icon in the top right hand corner of the screen, and then click on help and contact.

If you do not see a category matching your query, scroll to the bottom of the list and click other.

From here you will be given a few options. If you still haven't found what you’re looking for click on “I haven’t found what I’m looking for”.

Then a question will appear giving you the option to answer yes or no. upon clicking yes, you will be given Sportingbet’s contact details

Now that you know all there is to know about how to use Sportingbet, the last thing you need to do is go ahead and sign up, deposit, and recieve your welcome bonus from them! To start the sign up process click on the green claim button found below! 👇