How to win football tickets
Do you love football? And if you’re not a fan yourself, maybe you have a family member who does?
In the UK there are usually plenty of prize promotions to win Premier League tickets and EFL (English Football League) tickets – plus opportunities for children to be mascots at Cup Finals, Playoff Finals and Champions League games. And of course there’s also chances to win tickets and holidays to the UEFA European Championship and the World Cup – both men’s and women’s.
Tickets to footy matches are super expensive, but my son and I regularly go and see our local team Brighton & Hove Albion for free, thanks to competition wins. Ryland has been a mascot for Arsenal at the FA Cup Final and also for Barcelona in the Champions League – plus he was a flagbearer at the Women’s 2022 Euros. I’ve presented a Man of the Match Award at Nottingham Forest – and also presented one to Kyle Walker at the England v Wales match at Euro 2016. One of my favourite footy prizes was seeing my beloved Birmingham City beat Arsenal in the League Cup Final – although unsurprisingly, my Gooner husband Rob still doesn’t like to talk about that day…
I love football, and I’m always looking out for chances to win – so I’ll be regularly updating this blog post with tips and details of the latest UK competitions to win match tickets!
Current & upcoming promotions to win football tickets:
- Win tickets to the next round of the Carabao Cup! Enter at www.drinkcarabao.co.uk/pages/win
- Cadbury Match the Minute to Win It ends on 27 October 2023, with loads of Premier League tickets to be won
- Check out @UtilitaFootball on Twitter for ongoing football ticket giveaways for loads of British clubs!
- Buy a Budweiser and you could win a pair of tickets to one of 15 big Premier League games this season. Enter at www.budweiserpl.com before 1 May 2024.
- If you’re based in the Republic of Ireland, buy a can of Bud and you copuld win tickets (including flights and spending money) to a Premier League game. Enter before 1 December 2023 – full details are at winwithbud.ie/participate/ireland/
Next, some tips on how to find ticket competitions. Your best bet is to find and follow all the sponsors connected to the League, Club or Competition you’d like to win tickets for. You’ll have the best chance of winning in the effort-based competitions (for example upload a photo, or where you need to buy a product), or last-minute comps for tickets where you’re not given much time to enter!
Check sponsor websites and social media
Club sponsors
If your preferred football club has sponsors, find and follow them on all their social media channels. Of course there’s the shirt sponsor and the stadium sponsor, but also check in the programmes for the matchball sponsor – and when you’re at a match, check the hoardings around the stadium for business names. These local sponsors may be giving away tickets during the season! American Express are sponsors of Brighton, and I won hospitality tickets to see Brighton Ladies via @AMEXUK on Twitter. I’ve won tickets to the 2022 EFL Cup Final with Carabao, the FA Cup Final thanks to Emirates and the 2020 EFL Trophy Final thanks to Leasing.com (unfortunately that one was during the pandemic with no fans so we missed out!)
- Find a list of current Premier League shirt sponsors on Wikipedia
National team sponsors
Brand partners linked to the ENGLAND national team are: Barclays, Boots, Bud Light, Deliveroo, Dettol, Disney, Google Cloud, LG, Lucozade, McDonalds, Nationwide, Panini, PayPal, Pokémon, Snickers and Weetabix – look out for ticket and kit competitions from all these brands!
Cup sponsors
- FA Cup sponsor is Emirates (follow the Emirates FA Cup Facebook page for giveaways)
- Women’s FA Cup sponsor is Vitality (follow them on Facebook at Vitality UK & @VitalityUK on Twitter)
- EFL Cup sponsor is Carabao (follow them on Facebook at Carabao Cup & @CarabaoUK on Twitter)
- EFL Trophy has no sponsor for 23/24
- FA Trophy & FA Vase are sponsored by Buildbase (@BuildbaseUK & Buildbase Facebook page)
Premier League sponsors
- Budweiser – Bud frequently run on-pack promotions to win tickets
- Barclays – Barclays do regular giveaways for tickets to Premier League and also Women’s Super League matches on the Barclays Football Facebook page – and in previous seasons, Barclays customers can enter weekly ticket prize draws on their mobile app
- EA Sports – EA have previously given away PL season tickets in prize draws if you purchase their FIFA games, and also do ticket giveaways on their @ElectronicArts Twitter account
- Coca-Cola – look out for on-pack promotions to win tickets with Coke.
- Betway give away tickets – follow @betway on Twitter
Other PL sponsors are Nike, Hublot, Avery Dennison and Panini
Cadbury
- Cadbury are no longer a Premier League sponsor, but are linked with many PL and EFL clubs. Look out for Match and Win, Cadbury Legends and on-pack instant win ‘golden ticket’ promotions for the chance to win tickets and VIP matchday experiences.
Football League sponsors
- Sky Bet will sponsor the Football League (Championship, League 1 & 2) until 2028/29 – follow @skybet on Twitter for giveaways.
- Vanarama sponsor the National League – follow them on Facebook and Twitter for comps (New Balance are also a partner)
- Jameson Whiskey are a sponsor for the EFL until 2027/28 – follow them on Twitter
Champions League sponsors & partners
- Expedia Group (Expedia & Hotels.com)
- PepsiCo (Walkers, Doritos & Pepsi) – every year there are promotions on Pepsi, Walkers and Doritos with prizes of tickets and merchandise
- Sony PlayStation
- Heineken
- Just Eat
- Oppo
- Mastercard – check the Priceless Mascot competition page regularly
Women’s Champions League sponsors & partners
- Just Eat
- Adidas
- EA Sports
- Euronics
- Heineken
- PepsiCo
Europa League sponsors & partners 23/24
- Heineken 0.0
- Just Eat
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Hankook Tire – check their competitions page
FA Women’s Super League sponsors
- Barclays – follow on Facebook
- Continental (also sponsor of The FA Continental Tyres Women’s League Cup)
- Mitre – follow on Facebook for occasional comps
Scottish Professional Football League sponsors
- Cinch – follow them on Twitter
Euro 2024 sponsors
The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship will be held in Germany. It will have lots of sponsors and partners across Europe, with Adidas and Lidl confirmed so far.
World Cup 2026 sponsors
The next FIFA World Cup will be held in North America, in June/July 2026. Partners usually include Adidas, Hyundai-Kia, Coca-Cola and VISA.
Join a supporters club
Enrolling your child into your club’s junior supporters membership scheme is a good idea – my son has been a member of both the Junior Gunners (Arsenal) and is now a Young Seagull (Brighton) and they run lots of exclusive promotions online, in the programmes and in the club magazine. Some clubs are free to join too.
Register for the www.englandfootball.com website for the chance to win exclusive England prizes.
More places to find ticket giveaways
- Local newspapers give away tickets regularly
- Match programmes and club websites often have competitions – check in the kids section!
- The TalkSport website has a competitions page – and listen in for text comps
- VBET_UK , SportPesa_UK, Betway and other betting websites run occasional Twitter and Instagram comps for tickets
- Fanzo (previously Matchpint) do regular giveaways
- The Pitchero app and website for grassroots clubs sometimes runs competitions
- The WeLoveSport app has occasional freebies and comps
- Match of the Day magazine andwebsite has footy prizes, including tickets!
- There are regularly comps for people in the building, plumbing or electrical trades to win tickets – check your local stockists for any in store marketing!
- Gillette used to be a Champions League sponsor, and still do football related giveaways
- SKY subscribers can win football tickets in the VIP section of the Sky app.
- TCL Mobile do footy related giveaways on Instagram!
If you have a specific team or competition in mind, then create a Google search – for example ”Win Europa League match tickets” – and filter it to only show results from the last week. Then check it every week for new comps! Find tips on doing this in my blog post How to search Google for competitions.
Hopefully this post has given you lots of ideas on how to win yourself some match tickets! Let me know in the comments how you get on.
I love this blog post! I always try to get tickets to games, but it’s so hard. This is really helpful!
Hi Di ,
Love football and just before lockdown 1 I won tickets via Barclays on Facebook . Unfortunately the game was the first game stopped . I did send them a private message ( months ago) but didn’t get a reply . Do you think it’s just one of those things and I need to forget it.
Thanks
Barclays are sponsors of the Premier League until 2025 so they would certainly be able to sort you out with tickets to a match! Definitely get in touch with them again, referencing your winning emails or messages, and ask if they can sort something out for this season! I lost out on a pandemic ticket cup final prize because the sponsors changed, so the originals didn’t want to honour the prize!
I won a pair of premier League tickets via Budweiser, I could choose the tickets so I opted for Liverpool v Everton. Not had 100 confirmation yet, however they have been great with keeping me updated
Fab! Enjoy the match!!
There was recently a twitter comp on here for Carabao cup tickets (I was desperate for some, I entered every comp I could but had no luck ) anyway, I entered then saw the winners had been selected half hour before. Trouble is it was a week before the advertised closing date. Felt a bit cheated about that
Did you complain to the promoter Michelle? Really they should find more prizes to give away before the advertised end date.
I’ve won Arsenal tickets with Cadbury so worth entering if you’re a footie fan. Game is next year so bit of a wait.
Hi Di, thank you for posting this great information. I had a match in the Cadbury’s Match & Win and have been informed I’ve won Match Tickets, I’m not quite sure how it will work but I’m hoping for Man City tickets (having supported them for over 50 years) and if so that’s another item ticked off my Bingo prize wish list card.
That’s fantastic! Hope you get your Man City tickets.
Hi Di, I’m happy to report I’ve got my Man City tickets. Although the email Cadbury’s sent emphasized that it was on a first come first served basis, there were quite a few teams and games to go for. I clicked on all the links, chose the game I wanted to attend and completed the relevant sections and finally got an email saying “Back of the net!
Congratulations your tickets for the below match are now confirmed” so I’m presuming I’ve got them. Obviously with the proviso that the timings/date of the game I have chosen could change, i.e. presently it’s at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, which is unlikely to stay at that. All I would say and a Compers News Chatterbox reader kindly pointed out, it really is first come first served, so if someone gets a winning email for tickets to keep looking out for the follow up email to book them as quickly as possible. Thank you again for posting and good luck to you for Brighton and other compers entering this competion. I’ll keep trying for the VIP hospitality prize!!
That’s great news – enjoy the match!
My boys are into rugby. Any ideas on how to win rugby tickets? Thanks
Follow the tips here Jane – but researching and following rugby team, league and cup sponsors! Also a Google search for “Win Six Nations tickets” for example!