What AccaFreeze is
AccaFreeze is a Sky Bet feature on football accumulators. Once one of your selected teams is winning during its match, a freeze option appears against that leg in My Bets. Press it and the leg is settled as a winner at the price you took, whatever happens in the rest of that match. The other legs carry on as normal and the accumulator still needs every one of them to win.
The value in it is simple to state. A team priced at 6.00 to win a match will usually lose it. But teams that lose still take the lead sometimes — an early goal, a penalty, a red card for the other side — and AccaFreeze turns “was ahead at some point” into “won”, at the full price. Everything below follows from that.
The rules, as Sky publishes them
Read from Sky Bet’s help centre on 6 September 2026. Sky changes terms without notice, so the support page is the authority and this is a summary.
- 5 or more selections, all in the pre-match Full Time Result market. In-play legs and other markets do not qualify the bet.
- Selected competitions only. Sky publishes the list in a collapsed section of its help page. A match outside it can carry a big price and still not be freezable. Sky marks a qualifying bet with a snowflake once it is placed — sometimes only at kick-off — and that snowflake is the confirmation, not the odds.
- Maximum stake £20.
- 3 freezes a week, counted from 8am Monday to 7:59am the following Monday, and one frozen leg per bet.
- The freeze is manual and in-play. The option appears under Open Bets only while the leg is in play and your team is in a winning position. Taking the lead settles nothing by itself; it opens the window for you to act.
- A frozen leg stays frozen through VAR. Sky’s terms say frozen legs still count even if the goal that put your team ahead is later overturned.
- Only win selections can be frozen. A draw leg qualifies the accumulator but can never be the frozen leg.
- Cash out still works on a bet with a frozen leg, and the frozen leg counts as a won leg in the cash-out value.
Sky’s terms do not say a freeze can be undone once confirmed. Treat it as final.
Why the freeze leg is a different bet from the other four
Four legs of a qualifying accumulator have to win: ninety minutes, full-time result, no help. The fifth only has to be ahead at some point while you are watching. Those are very different events, and for an underdog the second is far more common than the first — a lead can be lost to an equaliser, a comeback or a late collapse, and each of those still counts as a lead.
So the two parts want opposite things. The fillers want teams that win reliably at prices that do not overcharge for it. The freeze leg wants a team whose price is big and whose chance of ever leading is much better than its chance of winning. Choosing the freeze leg by the same instinct you use for the fillers — pick a team you fancy to win — throws the mechanic away.
Choosing the freeze leg
On the Freeze Finder a freeze candidate is any fresh Sky Full Time Result selection at 5.50 or bigger in an AccaFreeze-eligible competition. The floor is a hard rule of the tool, not Sky’s: below it the price is not big enough to justify spending a freeze on. Above it the team is never filtered by form or the league table, because the whole point of the leg is the price.
Candidates rank by freeze value: Sky’s price multiplied by the modelled chance the team is ever a goal ahead inside ninety minutes. That chance is Per90’s own number, not a bookmaker’s. It starts from the sharp market’s de-vigged match odds — Pinnacle where it prices the match, otherwise the exchange — solves for both teams’ scoring rates, and works out the probability of a lead from those, with a correction fitted on two seasons of goal-by-goal records and tested out of sample. Where a real BoyleSports “1 Goal Ahead” price exists, the tool shows the relationship between Sky’s price and it instead; that market is rarely available and is never estimated.
Three practical filters on top of the ranking:
- Pick a match you can watch. The freeze is manual. A lead at 3:07pm in a match you are not following is a lead you did not freeze.
- Check the snowflake after placing. If the bet does not show it, the leg is not freezable and the accumulator is an ordinary five-fold at a long price.
- It must be a win selection. The draw never freezes.
Choosing the four fillers
The fillers have to win, so they are favourites, and the question is which favourites. The Freeze Finder takes Sky prices between 1.20 and 1.50 and ranks them by how Sky’s price compares with the sharp market’s de-vigged win probability, above a floor on that probability. Form, venue and league position are shown as context but never rank a filler: in the tool’s own backtest the market’s probability beat every composite of them.
Favourites at these prices are not certainties. A leg around 1.50 loses roughly one match in four, and four such legs all win together about 32% of the time — before the freeze leg is considered at all. That is the shape of the bet: most weeks the accumulator loses, and the freeze is what makes the winning weeks pay at a long price.
When to press freeze
Decide before kick-off. The freeze leg was chosen because its price assumed a win it will usually not get; a lead is already more than the price expected. Freezing at the first lead spends one of the week’s 3 freezes, and waiting for a second goal risks the equaliser that takes the option away. Most readers will find “freeze at the first lead” is the rule they can actually keep to while a match is running.
One exception is worth thinking through in advance: if your freeze leg is the last match to kick off and one of the fillers has already lost, the accumulator is dead and the freeze would be wasted. Check the other legs before you press.
What this does not do
AccaFreeze does not make a five-fold safe. Four legs still have to win, the stake is capped at £20, and Sky documents that the feature can be unavailable and that it applies account-level restrictions to patterns it considers abusive. Per90 shows the prices, the eligible competitions it can verify, and a model of the lead chance; it does not know whether Sky will offer the freeze on your bet on the day. Availability is Sky’s.
Open the Freeze Finder → to see today’s candidates, or read how the model and the de-vigging behind the numbers work.