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Mamelodi Sundowns fixtures, with the price attached

The most successful club in South African football and the most-searched name in SA betting. Sundowns are usually a short price, which makes the gap between bookmakers proportionally more valuable.

Next priced fixture Measured 24 July 2026

Mamelodi Sundowns v Marumo Gallants

PSL (Early Betting) Sat, 01 Aug 3-way market

Mamelodi Sundowns to win 1.14 at Hollywoodbets, who are charging 8.67% on this match. Strip that fee out and the fair price is 1.24, so you are paying about 8.8% over the odds.

Every fixture we priced

Mamelodi Sundowns matches, measured

Fixtures and prices

Real prices HOLLYWOODBETS · COLLECTED 24 JULY 2026

Fixture	Competition	Home	Draw	Away	Their cut
Mamelodi Sundowns v Marumo Gallants Sat, 01 Aug	PSL (Early Betting)	1.14	7.00	15.00	8.67%
Mamelodi Sundowns v Polokwane City Sat, 08 Aug	SA MTN8 (Early Betting)	1.35	4.00	9.00	10.19%

One bookmaker, stated plainly

Real prices, but from Hollywoodbets alone: no other book we read prices the SA domestic slate this far ahead. One honest column beats an invented second. Fixtures we can compare across books →

Cheapest book we can link you to Measured across 204 markets

Playabets is cheapest this week

They take 6.00%, the lowest of the 4 books we measured. On a R20 000 season that is about R533 back in your pocket versus the dearest book.

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Price band

What the margin actually costs you on Mamelodi Sundowns

A bookmaker quotes its fee against your stake. What the fee destroys is your profit, and at short prices those two numbers are nothing alike.

1.25 Typical price on Mamelodi Sundowns

1.36 What it should be without the fee

9.6% Cost against your stake

35% Share of your profit removed

Why those two numbers differ so much

Mamelodi Sundowns are priced odds-on in the fixtures we measured, averaging 1.25. That is the most expensive place on the board to be a backer: you are risking a lot to win a little, so the fee inside the price takes a far larger bite out of what you stood to win than the headline percentage suggests.

Across the 2 Mamelodi Sundowns fixtures measured on 24 July 2026 the headline margin averaged 9.43%, against 6.00% at the cheapest book on our full index and 10.41% at the dearest. The fee is never shown on the betting slip. How it is calculated →

Profit lost to the margin, by club

MEASURED 24 JULY 2026

Share of potential profit removed by the bookmaker margin, for each South African club we measured
Club	Profit removed	Scale
Mamelodi Sundowns	35.1%
Orlando Pirates	28.6%
Kaizer Chiefs	25.2%
AmaZulu FC	21.7%
Golden Arrows	17.3%

Worked from the measured prices on this page. For each fixture we take the price offered on Mamelodi Sundowns, strip the margin out to get a fair price, then compare the profit each would pay on a winning bet. Every club here carries a similar headline margin. What differs is the price band they are usually found in, and that is what moves the number above. The method in full.

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Straight answers

Mamelodi Sundowns betting questions

When do Mamelodi Sundowns play next?

Their next priced fixture is Mamelodi Sundowns v Marumo Gallants in the PSL (Early Betting), Sat, 01 Aug. Fixture data comes from the bookmakers' own markets, so a match appears here as soon as it is priced.

What margin do bookmakers charge on Mamelodi Sundowns matches?

Across the 2 Mamelodi Sundowns fixtures we measured on 24 July 2026, the average margin was 9.43%. That is the fee inside the odds, charged whichever way the result goes.

Does the margin hurt more on Mamelodi Sundowns matches than on other teams?

Yes, and the difference is larger than most people expect. Measured against the fair price, the fee costs about 9.6% of your stake on Mamelodi Sundowns fixtures, but it removes roughly 35% of the profit you stood to win, because Mamelodi Sundowns are typically priced around 1.25. Of the 5 South African clubs we measure, that ranks 1, the harshest on the slate. The same fee on Golden Arrows, who are priced longer at around 3.72, removes about 17%.

Why is only one bookmaker shown on this page?

Because only one of the books we currently read prices the South African domestic slate this far ahead. We will not invent a second column to make the table look fuller. As more adapters go live, this page becomes a genuine comparison. The European fixtures we can compare properly are in the weekly case study.

Do you predict Mamelodi Sundowns results?

Never. We publish the price, the fee inside it, and what the price would be without that fee. Which way you bet is entirely your call.

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