Glentoran vs Ballymena United Prediction & Betting Tips

Form

Glentoran's most recent run of 20 matches reads six wins, five draws and nine losses, with 35 goals scored and 35 conceded. That sample isn't just Premiership football though - it takes in pre-season friendlies and a couple of Europa Conference League qualifiers against Rīgas FS, including some lopsided friendly scorelines that puff up both the goals for and against columns. Strip those out mentally and the league picture on its own is probably tighter than the raw numbers suggest.

Glentoran: 20 completed matches; Ballymena United: 20 completed matches.

Glentoran

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

36

Conceded

32

Difference

+4

Ballymena United

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

42

Conceded

26

Difference

+16

Ballymena's sample shows four wins, six draws and ten losses from 20 games, with 23 scored and 30 conceded. Worth flagging that this run stretches from December 2025 through to April 2026, so it's really last season's closing stretch plus one Irish Cup tie rather than anything from the current campaign.

Neither side's underlying form points to real confidence right now.

Comparative Team Statistics: Glentoran vs Ballymena United

Head-to-Head

Glentoran have had much the better of this fixture historically. Going back to 2021, Ballymena have only managed to beat them a handful of times, with Glentoran winning the large majority of meetings, including a run of five straight wins before an older stretch of draws.

The most recent meeting came in August this season, when Glentoran won 2-0 away from home. That extends a run in which Ballymena haven't beaten Glentoran since September 2024.

History leans heavily towards the home side here.

League Position

Glentoran currently sit on 10 points from eight games - three wins, one draw, four losses - while Ballymena have six points from seven, with one win, three draws and three losses. It's not a huge gap, but Glentoran are picking up points at a better rate this season.

How this one shapes up

Put it together and Glentoran look the steadier side on paper: they're above Ballymena in the table, they've already won the corresponding fixture this season, and the long head-to-head record barely gives Ballymena a foothold.

That said, neither team's overall record this year is convincing, and we don't have Glentoran's home form broken out separately from their full sample. The head-to-head trend is strong, but eight and seven games respectively is still a small sample for either side this season.