Footy tipping is a competition where competitors try to predict the winning teams in a round of games played each round during (usually) the home and away season of a sport. The most common sport in which footy tipping is played is (Australian Football League), however footy tipping now is played on many types of sports including Rugby League, Rugby Union and Soccer. This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ... Rugby league is a team sport, played by two teams of 13 players. ... Image from a test-match between Ireland and the New Zealand All Blacks. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...

Footy tipping is predominantly played in Australia, however it is not a unique Australian custom. Footy Tipping is known in other countries under names such as "Office Pools", however most countries have slightly different rules.

In order to eliminate draws, the competitors (or tippers as they are called) commonly also try to tip the winning margin in the first game of each round.

Footy Tipping is most often played in offices where office workers are entered into a competition amongst themselves. Usually, each player puts in money to play and the person with the highest score at the end of the season (or round) wins a portion of the money. Although the structure of footy tipping technically constitutes gaming, most Australian states allow work place tipping competitions to operate.

Due to the internet, many large scale free to enter tipping competitions are run by media companies and sporting bodies such as the AFL or the NRL. These competitions are free to enter due to gaming regulations in Australia.

Traditionally done with pen and paper, footy tipping is also done with software programs but the internet now plays the leading role in running office footy tipping competitions.

The exclusive provider of AFL footy tipping competitions is footytips.com.au [1] which runs a range of free footy tipping competitions including the popular afl.com.au [2] site. The Australian company Tattersalls, runs the TipStar competition that is a pay-to-play tipping competition where tippers can win $150,000.