Anyone who has scrolled through a Soccer 6, Soccer 10 or Soccer 13 results page for the first time has probably stumbled over the same wall of shorthand: pool codes, dividend tiers, winning combinations written as strings of numbers, and prediction markets like 1X or BTTS that never get explained on the page itself. None of it is complicated once it’s spelled out, but nobody actually spells it out, which is exactly why this glossary exists.

This is a working reference for the terms that actually show up on South African soccer pools coupons and results pages, explained in plain language rather than jargon.

 

Match Result Terms

 

The single-result markets, 1, X and 2, are the foundation every pool is built on and only pay out if you called that exact outcome. Double chance markets exist because draws are the hardest single result to predict correctly, so covering two of the three outcomes trades a smaller potential payout for meaningfully lower risk on that one match. Selecting ALL on a match means you’ve covered every possible result for that leg, which guarantees it can never be the one selection that costs you the round, but it also multiplies the number of combinations (and therefore the stake) needed to cover every match on the ticket where ALL is used. For a deeper breakdown of how these markets actually work and when each one makes sense, see What Does 1X2 Mean in Soccer Betting? and Double Chance Betting Explained: What 1X, X2 and 12 Mean.

 

Pool Structure Terms

• Leg: A single match within a pool. Soccer 6 has six legs, Soccer 10 has ten, Soccer 13 has thirteen, and Soccer Any 13 Xtra lets a player pick 13 selections from a wider 30 match card.
• Pool Code: The short letter code attached to each round, such as SXX or 6FF, used to identify that specific pool instance for results and payout lookups. Each version and day of the week gets its own code so results can be tracked and archived separately.
• Version (V1, V2, V3): When more than one pool runs on the same day or across the same weekend, each is numbered separately, for example Saturday’s Soccer 13 V1 versus a midweek Soccer 13 V2.
• Winning Combination: The final confirmed result of every match in the pool, written as a string of numbers separated by slashes (for example 1/3/2/1/1/2), showing exactly what the correct ticket needed to look like.
• Current Pool / Net Pool: The total amount of money staked into that specific pool before it closes, after operator deductions. This is the figure that gets divided among winning tickets.
• Dividend: The actual payout per winning combination, calculated by dividing the net pool for that prize tier by the number of winning tickets. More winners at a given tier means a smaller dividend per ticket, and fewer winners means a larger one.

 

Carryover and Jackpot Terms

A carryover happens when nobody matches all the required results in a pool, so the top prize dividend doesn’t get paid out. Instead of disappearing, that unclaimed money rolls forward and gets added to the following round’s pool, which is why carryover weeks tend to produce noticeably bigger headline jackpots and a spike in ticket sales as players chase the inflated prize. A likely pool figure shown alongside a carryover announcement is an estimate of what the combined pool is expected to reach once betting closes, not a guaranteed final number.

Most jackpot-style pools also pay out at multiple tiers below the full house. Soccer 13, for example, typically pays dividends for 10, 11, 12 and 13 correct results, meaning a ticket doesn’t need a perfect card to win something back. Soccer 10 works the same way with 9 and 10 correct tiers. This tiered structure is part of why pool difficulty and legs both matter so much when building a ticket, a relationship explained further in The Math Behind Soccer Pools: Why More Legs Means More Risk.

 

Status and Settlement Terms

• Status: Official: Confirmation that a pool’s results have been finalised and dividends calculated, as opposed to provisional results still awaiting confirmation.
• Status: Open / Closed / Not Yet Open: Where a pool currently sits in its own betting window, from before bets are accepted, through the live betting period, to the point where no further bets can be placed.
• Void: What happens to a leg when the scheduled match doesn’t go ahead as planned, whether postponed, abandoned, or cancelled outright. Void matches are typically settled according to the operator’s specific rules rather than simply removed from the pool, so it’s worth checking the exact rule set for the pool being played rather than assuming a match that doesn’t happen just disappears from the ticket.
• Commingled Pool: Some South African soccer pools, including Soccer 13, are batched together with international pool operators before results are finalised, which is part of why certain pools close their betting window earlier than the actual match kickoff times might suggest.

 

Form and Prediction Terms

• Form (W/D/L): A quick snapshot of a team’s most recent results, typically their last three or five matches, used to gauge current momentum rather than season-long quality.
• Banker: A selection considered close to a certainty based on the form gap between two teams, usually backed as a single result rather than hedged with a double chance.
• BTTS (Both Teams to Score): A prediction on whether both sides will find the net at least once, independent of who wins the match.
• Over/Under (Goals): A prediction on the total combined goals in a match relative to a set number, most commonly 1.5 or 2.5, where Over 2.5 needs three or more total goals and Under 2.5 needs two or fewer.
• H2H (Head to Head): The historical record between the two specific teams involved, sometimes a useful pattern spotter but rarely as reliable a signal as current form.

Understanding these markets is really about understanding what actually moves the odds behind them, which is covered in more depth in Modern Soccer Betting Explained: BTTS, Over 2.5, Value Bets and xG.

 

Putting It All Together

None of these terms are complicated in isolation, but a results page throws several of them at a reader simultaneously, which is where the confusion usually comes from. A typical results block reads something like: Status Official, Winning Combination 1/3/2/1/1/2, followed by dividend tiers for 9/10 and 10/10 results, each with its own net pool and winner count. Once the individual pieces are understood, that block stops looking like a wall of numbers and starts reading as exactly what it is: how many people played, how many got it right, and how the money actually got split. For a broader look at how the whole system fits together, from how pools are licensed to how stakes flow into a prize fund, How Soccer Pools Work in South Africa is the natural next read.

 

A soccer pools coupon looks intimidating mostly because of unfamiliar shorthand, not because the underlying ideas are actually difficult. Once terms like double chance, carryover, and dividend tiers are understood, reading a results page becomes second nature, and so does building a ticket with a real strategy behind it instead of guesswork.