About us

Match.Center is an independent analytical website and aims to be the go to guide for the online gambling world.

Our mission

Our philosophy is that betting should be viewed as a source of entertainment, one which uses your brain. Generally all forms of entertainment are more fun the better you are at it. The mission of the Match.Center team is to teach you everything we know about bookmakers, their bonuses, their apps and the betting markets that they offer in order to make it easier for you to make the right choice and have fun. Our flagship product is our bookmaker ratings and reviews, where each is evaluated by our expert team on nine distinct criteria.

Our principle

The main priority for the Match.Center team is that our readers can trust what we say. It is true that we are paid commission from the bookmakers, but they do not control us. We realise that without reades we will not have a business. This means that the interests of our readers are always more important to us than that of the bookmaker’s PR team. To serve these interests we work using the following three principles.

 

Honesty. When analysing bookmakers, we give a fair and honest assessment, even if it is uncomfortable for them. We have these assessments for all betting companies in every country that we operate in. If we decide that a bookmaker is better than another, that means it offers a better product overall in our opinion. More betting events and broadcasts, great bonuses and higher odds compared to the competition – this is the only way to get a higher assessment and rise in our ratings.

 

Clarity. Betting companies often offer thousands of betting options with dozens of bonuses, and we aim to explain how everything works in detail and with examples. We apply ourselves fully to making the information complete and relevant and are ready to spend hours talking to the customer support, so that you do not have to waste your time doing it yourself.

 

Analysis. When assessing bookmakers, we are guided by our own observations and verifiable facts. We do not take into account hearsay, rumours, or the writings of other websites, but instead do our own independent research.

What isn't on Match.Center: Our red lines

  • We DO NOT tell you which bets to place. This is always your choice at the end of the day, we just help by providing the relevant information for you to make the decision.

  • We DO NOT suggest that betting will make you money. If somewhere you are promised the opposite – it is a lie. In the long run, almost all bettors lose to bookmakers. Always treat betting as just fun and not a way to make money.

  • We DO NOT give preferences to betting companies simply because they are large brands or they pay us more commission. If in our ratings a bookmaker is above its competitors, this means that they have done something better than the others (and we can prove it!).

Our Team

Valentin Axani

Website Manager

Valentin was actively involved in the gambling industry for more than 15 years. He started his career as a bookmaker at a betting house in Romania, later developing his professional activity in several departments such as Online - Risk management, Project manager, Customer support manager and later on the acquisition departement, where he held the position of Affiliate manager. Also, in his spare time he collaborated with companies and websites that provide information about sports betting, sports and betting houses as a professional tipster and content creator.


With a vast experience behind him and having been active for so many years in this industry, it could be said that he is familiar and knows very well both the activity carried out by the betting houses, as well as by the bettors or the specialized websites, representing after all, a part of him and his lifestyle.

  • Favourite sport: I don't go out of the box and I can say that, like the vast majority of those in the betting community, football is without a doubt the favorite sport. Ever since I was a child, I used to play football, to "hit the ball on the fields" as there is a Romanian saying, when I was 11 years old I went to a football stadium for the first time and I was completely fascinated by the atmosphere, that moment being practically a point of no return and becoming a fan of the Rapid Bucharest team. I like to watch football matches, occasionally attractive matches from the Champions League, England or Spain, and when it comes to the World or European Championship I don't miss too many matches. Last but not least, I bet on football, also on the big European leagues, where it is much easier to document yourself and find out last-minute information that can influence the outcome of a match or to check and analyze statistics.
  • Biggest win: In this category, I wouldn't say that I managed to achieve spectacular wins, rather being often in the situation of losing "a single match on the ticket", tickets that were close to bringing me winnings of up to € 5000. But actually the biggest win was few years ago, at the beginning of 2016. I remember that I was particularly following the Italian championship back then, looking for matches that have a history behind them and thus trying to predict a development of the match that would give me a really big multiplicator. Based on statistics, but definitely also on intuition, I then chose the 2 halftime/1 final bet type for the match between Udinese and Genoa, with a rather small stake, but which brought me a profit of approximately €1000, because the odds were consistent, around 25.00.