2025 LeoVegas sports review: New Zealand

The LeoVegas welcome bonus is a pretty decent one, though it’s not anything super special. It’s great to get new players started, but there are other sites like Fansbet with bigger offers, though they do come with 12x wagering requirements. I will say that the low minimum and maximum wager limits for claiming this welcome bonus (NZ$10 and NZ$50, respectively) caters to the budget player.

However, this does mean that players with bigger budgets won’t enjoy it as much. But the lack of any wagering requirements to cash out winnings is a big plus, though you can’t cash out the stake, just your profits. In any event, this still beats out the complete lack of a sports welcome bonus from Sportsbet.

It is nice to see a range of other bonuses on offer too. Clicking on the promotions tab brings you to all the options. I just had to make sure to filter those promos by sport otherwise the offers for the other verticals were listed too.

Finally, I was pleased to find that claiming the bonuses was very easy. There was no beating around the bush once the eligible deposit and wager had been made.

To be honest, yes, this section of the LeoVegas site is far from perfect. But, I am not going to make too much of a fuss about it.

After all, 35 sports is actually far better than some of the other sportsbooks out there. For instance, the TAB NZ site only offers wagers on horse racing and nothing else.

That being said, LeoVegas doesn’t actually excel in this area, so my advice is, if you want to wager on the horses, try sites like the aforementioned TAB, or try Betway with its best odds guarantee. However, for sports like cricket and rugby, this is the place to be.

There are numerous bets available across an enormous selection of different games, tournaments and leagues. Other popular sports include the US-based ones with the bizarre exception of ice hockey. I’m still not sure what’s up with that!

Additional market details: Rugby is one of the most popular markets for wagering on LeoVegas. This includes both rugby league and union. You can find a range of odds for all the latest tournaments for both these sports, as well as betting options for the main event, the Rugby World Cup.

Additional market details: Beating out football, cricket is another popular betting market at this online bookie. You can find a whole ton of top competitions including The Ashes, Big Bash and more. Matches and tournaments from all cricket types are available.

I was really impressed with the betting features found here. I will say that here, LeoVegas really is head and shoulders above the rest. Not just for the number of options, but their quality too.

I’ll kick things off with the bet builder. While 888Sport also offers a bet builder, LeoVegas makes things even easier by having a quick guide to how this works as well. This means that you can really understand the process.

For instance, if you choose football, it’s possible to build your bet with numerous individual ones that include goals, number of corners and even the goal scorers. Essentially, you can populate it with props.

I was also happy to find that it was possible to place live in play bets for most of the top sports. These bets can easily be found under the “live” tab.

The only disappointment comes when we look at live streaming. The selection is severely limited, but still wins over the likes of BetVictor where only international races are streamed.

Additional features: While parlays are very popular at online betting sites for being able to add numerous bets into one, LeoVegas also has system bets available. These bets allow you to combine more than one bet into one, but you don’t need to win all the different parts to win. Instead, you can actually win just 3 out of 5 legs and so on.

Despite the rather lacklustre showing when it comes to payout percentages here, LeoVegas is still on a par with many other NZ sportsbooks. William Hill, for instance, also comes in below our preferred 95% average, scoring just above LeoVegas at 93.89%

Where LeoVegas does lose major points though is when it comes to the odds for live streaming markets. Under 88% is a shocking drop as usually I’d expect just one or two percentage points below the 93% mark. Other sites with a similar overall average, like Royal Panda, still manage a 93% average for live bets.

Despite all this, the general odds across the board are very similar to those found on other sportsbooks in NZ. You won’t have to do too much shopping around here to find that things are relatively similar.

Some sports are better than others, but this is not the case for the majority of them. As such, there is still a bit to improve here in my opinion.

Especially for New Zealanders, I should note that the odds for horse races are definitely not a strong point here. If this is your preferred sport for wagering, look at one of the specific horse race betting sites like the TAB for better odds.

I have to say that the payment options here at LeoVegas are somewhat uninspiring. There’s nothing really bad, it’s just that there aren’t that many of them, which means a lack of variety.

That being said, these are definitely more of a mix than other sites. And, even with only seven, LeoVegas is still coming in ahead of sites like PlayUp, which has only five payment methods available.

While there was some information presented on the payment options, I was rather disappointed regarding the lack of any detail. Information about minimum deposit and withdrawal limits was present, but maximums were lacking, and some of the information I found in the Help Centre was inconsistent.

Nevertheless, this is not the worst, though it meant I reduced my score here a bit.

This is another solid effort from LeoVegas, so I was pleased to be able to hand out another high score. After all, this is an important area to score big.

LeoVegas ticks most of the boxes for me, but especially when it comes to responsible gaming. It’s one of the only sportsbooks that actually has its own tools. These are also made available to its sister site, Royal Panda.

Within the LeoSafePlay zone, you can learn about cooling off, self-exclusion, set bet limits, deposit limits and more. You can even access additional external resources and help lines.

Where this site does lose a few points in this LeoVegas review, is the SSL encryption. Although it offers 256-bit, this is a far cry from the impressive 2048-bit that protects the Ladbrokes sportsbook.

I was pleased to see a solid effort here from LeoVegas Sports. The site may only have two contact options, which is a lot lower than some other sites, but they work well. That being said, other NZ sportsbooks, like Neds, offer a phone line, and I would have liked to see that as an option here too.

However, an even bigger downside for me here is the fact that there is no 24/7 support. bet365 can offer round-the-clock help, so why can’t LeoVegas?

I will also say that the Help section was a little disappointing. While some of the questions were answered, I was constantly left wanting more. For instance, there was never quite enough information given for payments.

However, LeoVegas did offer a delightful section on the different types of bets, top sports and tournaments on the main sportsbook page. And this was something I really loved which definitely bumped this score up a bit!

I actually really do love the LeoVegas Sports look and feel. It’s very easy to see thanks to the clear colour scheme. And, I wasn’t spending hours searching for a feature, everything was where I expected it to be. However, occasionally those swathes of white did leave me longing for a dark mode like the one at MyBookie.

Impressively, I found this to be the case across all areas of the betting platform. Not only does the mobile browser site match the desktop, but the mobile betting app does as well.

The LeoVegas mobile app also offers the same features and functions as the desktop allowing me to check out the different live betting options and place real money bets with ease. This was the case for both the iOS and Android app, thus beating out 888Sport, which has a rather weak Android app in place.

Everything loaded well for me too, so I wasn’t put out by any annoying lag times when it came to playing. In short, I am happy to conclude this LeoVegas review with some pretty positive news!