When the Lionesses brought home a victory on Sunday, England’s bettors were behind them, according to data from Flutter Entertainment

When the Lionesses brought home a triumph on Sunday, England’s bettors were behind them, according to data from Flutter Entertainment.

Across the group’s tierce main brands, o'er 840,000 bets were placed on Sunday’s final, with Sky Betting & Gaming reporting a 76% predilection for the home side.

Of these bets, Sky saw 78,000 placed during the game. Meanwhile, amount stakes for the last amounted to o'er £4.7m ($5.7m), with Sky Bet’s in-play stakes coming to £1.1m.

What’s more, 142 customers who placed an in-play wager got lucky, betting on Chloe Princess Grace of Monaco to mark inwards duplicate time. However, more than 10,000 punters were to a lesser extent lucky, placing their hopes on a penalty shootout.

Meanwhile, England’s Alessia Russo was the highest backed player to musical score in-play, both in normal and additional time, crossways Sky, Paddy Power and Betfair – likely leaving many bettors disappointed.

Combined, Flutter’s trey main brands saw 30,000 bets placed on England to elevate the trophy, resulting inward a £580,000 payout on the win securities industry alone.

Paddy Power and Betfair also paid out £25,000 on Beth Margaret Mead beingness top out end scorer, and o'er £12,000 on the “England/Mead Winner/Top Goalscorer” double.

Furthermore, on Paddy Power, the 2nd most popular “Bet Builder” alternative won at 22/1. This was backed to a greater extent than 2,000 times by customers, resulting inwards an o'er £185,000 payout.

These statistics ordinate with a larger trend. Ahead of Sunday’s final, Flutter published data on betting activity crossways the tournament, which it said was “set to view the to the highest degree bets of all time placed on a distaff sporting event.”