Aarhus GF vs. Sport Lisboa e Benfica

Platform comparison

Market context

Aarhus GF v Benfica is priced at 0% YES on Polymarket today, which is effectively a hard no for the contract rather than a live view of the football. On-chain, that means buyers and sellers are still trading the outcome in USDC on Polygon through conditional tokens, but the market is treating the resolution as already settled away from the upside.

That makes the closest read-through the first leg rather than the abstract tie: Benfica beat Aarhus 3-1 in Lisbon, then followed up with a 3-1 win in Denmark to complete a 6-2 aggregate victory and advance. In comparable knockout qualifiers, a two-goal cushion after the first leg usually leaves only one path to a yes outcome, and once the second leg has finished the price should collapse to zero if the result is confirmed. Recent match listings also show the game was played at Randers rather than Aarhus itself, which matters for any user checking venue and scheduling detail before settlement.

The main catalysts are administrative rather than sporting now: UEFA’s official match page, final whistle confirmation, and any correction to venue, kick-off time, or result feed. For a prediction market user, the key dependency is whether the event has been formally recognised as completed within the settlement window, because conditional tokens resolve off that final verified outcome, not live score noise. If the official record matches the reported 1-3 second-leg result and 2-6 aggregate, there is no remaining upside in the contract.

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to PolyGram, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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