The Four Hills Tournament 2024/25 will take place from December 29, 2024 to January 6, 2025. As usual in Oberstdorf, Garmisch, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen.
Who will win the Four Hills Tournament 2025?
Vierschanzentournee winners: prediction, betting odds & favorites
The best German bookmakers have numerous favorites on the list for their Four Hills Tournament bets in advance.
In the Four Hills Tournament winner odds ahead of the opening event in Oberstdorf, there is one man who has dominated the World Cup so far – Pius Paschke.
The 34-year-old German has won a total of five of the first eight individual competitions this season (he has won at least one competition at all four venues) and therefore half of all competitions this winter. The only time he failed to do so was at the tour dress rehearsal in Engelberg.
Can Paschke ensure the first German tour victory since Sven Hannawald in 2002?
In general, the DSV eagles have always come very close to winning the tour in recent years: Since 2015, there have been five 2nd place finishes: 2016 (Freund), 2018 (Wellinger), 2019 (Eisenbichler), 2021 by Karl Geiger and by Andreas Wellinger last year.
Andreas Wellinger and Karl Geiger are once again among the (co-)favorites in the Tournament overall winner betting odds in the run-up to the event as the second German eagle.
What could speak against Paschke in the Four Hills Tournament Winner 2025 forecast: He has never been among the favorites in the tour. But this competition has its very own laws.
The big competition for the black, red and gold eagles comes from Austria.
Jan Hörl, Daniel Tschofenig and Stefan Kraft, last season’s overall World Cup winner, are also given very good title chances in the Tournament Winner 2025 forecast. This is also shown by the Four Hills Tournament betting odds ahead of the opening jump.
Hörl and Tschofenig won both jumps at the tour dress rehearsal in Engelberg and are second and third in the overall World Cup before the start of the tour.
Kraft could be THE insider tip for overall victory. The Austrian has already competed in the tour over ten times and also won once in 2015 – so he knows the special Four Hills Tournament rules inside out.
According to the Four Hills Tournament winner odds, there may also be a “laughing third” from Switzerland. Gregor Deschwanden is the only one who has managed to break the German-Austrian dominance so far this season before the tour.
In the Four Hills Tournament winners’ betting, Deschwanden is therefore considered the biggest favorite to win the tour who is not from Germany or Austria.
A look at the results list shows that nationality is not a drawback for winning the tour. After the last German Tour victory was in 2002, Austria last won the Tour in 2015 – with Stefan Kraft.
Since then, victory at the Four Hills Tournament has gone to Poland four times, Slovenia and Norway once each and Japan three times – as was the case last season with Ryoyo Kobayashi.
However, Kobayashi is not one of the favorites to win the 2025 Four Hills Tournament in the Tournament winner odds ahead of the season opener in Oberstdorf. The Japanese superstar has had a poor season so far.
The best betting providers for the Four Hills Tournament
Since the Four Hills Tournament is historically very important in Germany and Austria, it is obvious that the online betting providers from German-speaking countries have a lot to offer here – and even more than the British bookmakers.
In addition to Bet-at-Home, Interwetten and Bwin, traditional German bookmakers such as ODDSET are among the bookies that are recommended for Four Hills Tournament betting.
New betting providers are also worth considering for betting on the Four Hills Tournament 2024/25 – especially as these “newcomers”, such as NEO.bet, have several qualities (German license, attractive bonus, etc.).
All of the bookmakers mentioned have the Four Hills Tournament generously included in their betting programs – both in terms of betting on the overall victory and on the four individual jumping competitions.
Sports betting fans will be particularly interested in the four jumps of the Four Hills Tournament.
Not only because there are a large number of special bets for each jump, but also because the knockout mode of the Four Hills Tournament has its own special appeal.
The best providers for Four Hills Tournament betting – Interwetten , Bwin , Bet365 and Bet-at-Home – have so-called head-to-head duels in their range for each of the four competitions – in line with the knockout mode.
In addition to the Four Hills Tournament betting odds for the winner of the respective competition, there are also betting markets on “Who will finish in the top 3” and on the “Winner’s lead”.
The best bets for the Four Hills Tournament 2024/25
The Four Hills Tournament is THE highlight for ski jumpers and one of the most important events in all of winter sports. Even sports fans who otherwise have little to do with ski jumping are interested in such an event.
As a result, the Four Hills Tournament betting is at the center of interest, especially during the Christmas and New Year period, when soccer is somewhat out of the media spotlight.
The most popular Four Hills Tournament bets
- Top 3 in the overall standings
- Winners and top 3 in each of the four jumps
- Duelling winners (head-to-head) in each of the four jumps
- Will Germany win in Oberstdorf or Garmisch?
- Will there be an Austrian victory in Innsbruck or Bischofshofen?
- Will the winner of Oberstdorf also win the tour – yes/no?
- Which nation does the tour winner come from?
- Will there be a new Four Hills Tournament winner?
- How big is the lead of the tour winner over the runner-up?
- Tournament Grand Slam (jumper wins all four competitions)
- Will there be a Torunee winner without winning the day?
Vierschanzentournee betting on the four competitions
Although the focus of the Four Hills Tournament betting is on the overall victory – tour betting odds for all four competitions are still very much in demand. After all, there are four competitions within a very short space of time and there are a variety of betting options for all four events.
What makes the Four Hills Tournament betting even more special is that the Tournament has been held in a knockout system since 1996/97.
In addition to the winner and placing in the top 3, there are not only the classic ski jumping special bets – such as “Will the leader after round 1 also win at the end”, “How big is the winner’s lead” or “Which nation does the winner come from?” – but also the Four Hills Tournament bets on this knockout mode.
This is why so-called “Who will win the duel” bets (or head-to-head bets) are offered for every jumping event. The only thing that matters here is who wins the head-to-head duel.
Bets on the “Tournament Grand Slam”: Will someone win all four jumps at the 2024/25 Tournament? There hasn’t been a Grand Slam winner since Sven Hannawald, before Kamil Stoch (2017/2018) and Ryoyu Kobayashi (2018/2019) also achieved this quadruple triumph.
As part of the Four Hills Tournament, bets are therefore offered on whether one jumper will win all four competitions again.
Vierschanzentournee bets on “Tour winner without daily victory”: The opposite of the “Grand Slam” is the overall victory at the Four Hills Tournament without a daily victory. This is possible and has already happened 8 times.
The most recent and most prominent example is Janne Ahonen, who triumphed in the 1998/99 tour without winning a single day.
Will the Oberstdorf winner win the tour? In the recent past, it has not been a bad omen that the first day’s winner of the tour also wins the overall ranking, if you look at the last five years: In the last six of the last seven editions, the Oberstdorf winner has also ended up winning the respective tour.
Will there be a German victory in Oberstdorf and Garmisch? Home victories are the salt in the tour soup for the German and Austrian eagles. But they have also been rather rare in the recent past.
That’s why the odds for the German and Austrian victories are very interesting in the Four Hills Tournament betting.
Vierschanzentournee betting on the margin of victory: How big is the margin of victory of the winner over the runner-up? Yes, there are Four Hills Tournament betting odds for this.
The good thing is that the odds are high. The bad thing about it: You need a lot of luck and a very good instinct.
Help and tips for Four Hills Tournament betting 2024/25
But: A lot can happen at the Four Hills Tournament and there have often been surprise winners who have suddenly appeared out of nowhere at the center of attention.
For example, in the 2013/14 season, the Austrian no-name Thomas Diethart surprisingly won the tour.
If this happens, bettors can rub their hands together, as they will be sent into the title hunt as outsiders with correspondingly high odds before the start of the tour.
This can certainly be attractive for outsider tips, but predicting such a surprise success in advance is not easy, to say the least. It is also important to keep a constant eye on the tour, including the training sessions and qualifications. It is often only after the first or second jump that it becomes clear exactly who can be expected to do what.
And some jumpers feel more comfortable on one hill than the other…
However, when betting on the overall victory, it is important to bear in mind that a lot can change in this one week – from the weather to the athlete’s form.
It is not uncommon for the wind to prove too much of a disruptive factor.
That’s why Interwetten is also offering a kind of “hedge” – you can bet on the top 3 in the overall standings with the Austrian flagship bookmaker!
Another special bet for the Four Hills Tournament is: “Best jumper of a country” – for example: Who will be best Austrian, who will be best German, etc.
