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Orlando Pirates fixtures, with the price attached

Soweto giants with the largest travelling support in the country. Heavy public money on Pirates means books often shorten their price, so shopping around matters more than usual.

Next priced fixture Measured 24 July 2026

Orlando Pirates v Milford

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

Orlando Pirates to win 1.30 at Hollywoodbets, who are charging 9.27% on this match. Strip that fee out and the fair price is 1.42, so you are paying about 9.2% over the odds.

Every fixture we priced

Orlando Pirates matches, measured

Fixtures and prices

Real prices HOLLYWOODBETS · COLLECTED 24 JULY 2026

Fixture	Competition	Home	Draw	Away	Their cut
Orlando Pirates v Milford Sat, 01 Aug	PSL (Early Betting)	1.30	4.30	11.00	9.27%
Orlando Pirates v Durban 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 Orlando Pirates

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.

1.33 Typical price on Orlando Pirates

1.46 What it should be without the fee

9.8% Cost against your stake

29% Share of your profit removed

Why those two numbers differ so much

Orlando Pirates are priced odds-on in the fixtures we measured, averaging 1.33. 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 Orlando Pirates fixtures measured on 24 July 2026 the headline margin averaged 9.73%, 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 Orlando Pirates, 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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Mamelodi Sundowns

2 measured fixtures, with the fee shown on each.

Fixtures and prices → Amakhosi

Kaizer Chiefs

2 measured fixtures, with the fee shown on each.

Fixtures and prices → Usuthu

AmaZulu FC

3 measured fixtures, with the fee shown on each.

Fixtures and prices → Abafana Bes'thende

Golden Arrows

3 measured fixtures, with the fee shown on each.

Fixtures and prices →

Straight answers

Orlando Pirates betting questions

When do Orlando Pirates play next?

Their next priced fixture is Orlando Pirates v Milford 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 Orlando Pirates matches?

Across the 2 Orlando Pirates fixtures we measured on 24 July 2026, the average margin was 9.73%. That is the fee inside the odds, charged whichever way the result goes.

Does the margin hurt more on Orlando Pirates matches than on other teams?

Yes, and the difference is larger than most people expect. Measured against the fair price, the fee costs about 9.8% of your stake on Orlando Pirates fixtures, but it removes roughly 29% of the profit you stood to win, because Orlando Pirates are typically priced around 1.33. Of the 5 South African clubs we measure, that ranks 2 of 5. 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 Orlando Pirates 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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Where several bookmakers price the same fixture, the gap between best and worst is measured and published every Thursday.

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