The study aims at examining the impact of football betting on study habit among senior secondary school students in Enugu state. The essence for the study came as a result of decline in education sector due to poor study habit among secondary school students in Enugu State. The study was guided by three research questions. The study adopted qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection. From the population of 6,565 senior secondary school students in the 10 senior secondary schools in Enugu East Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, the sample of 180 students were selected through simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was a close-ended questionnaire with 15 items developed from four research questions. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation on SPSS version 26. Five recommendations were made among which is that Nigeria Lottery Commission should enforce and regulate strict monitoring towards the establishment of betting centers in correspondence to the laws stipulated.
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