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 trips to watch Champion’s League, UEFA European Championship and World Cup matches – 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 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 tickets to see my beloved Birmingham City beat Arsenal in the 2011 League Cup Final – although unsurprisingly, my Gooner husband Rob still doesn’t like to talk about that day…
I also won tickets to the opening match of Euro 2024 with £1,000, thanks to Coca-Cola – and in the 25/26 season I won three pairs of Brighton & Hove Albion tickets!
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 FREE promotions to win football tickets
- Sage customers can win EFL tickets and shirts at www.sage.com/en-gb/cp/memberofthematch/
- Carabao give away tickets to every round of the Carabao Cup – enter at www.drinkcarabao.co.uk/win (not live yet for the 26/27 season!)
- Guinness give away 20 pairs of Premier League tickets every month at my.guinness.com/en-gb/reward…premier-league
- Hankook Tyres give away tickets to all Europa & Europa Conference matches at hankook.win/competitions/ (not live yet for the 26/27 season!)
- Check out @UtilitaFootball on X for ongoing football ticket giveaways for loads of British clubs!
- Check the Sky VIP tab on your My Sky app for Premier League ticket giveaways
There are also promotions where you need to purchase certain products for a chance to win football tickets. Currently you can win Premier League tickets when you buy Coca-Cola products. These promotions are featured on the Compers Shopping List, part of my Lucky Legends Membership, which also includes a private forum where we share strategies to improve the odds of winning prizes!
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 X. 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: Chase, EE, E-On, Google Cloud, Google Pixel, ClearScore, LG, Mars Wrigley, M&S Food, Nike and Panini – 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 Adobe (follow them on Facebook at AdobeUK and Instagram at @AdobeUK)
- EFL Cup sponsor is Carabao (follow them on Facebook at Carabao Cup & @CarabaoUK on X)
- EFL Trophy is sponsored by Vertu (follow on Facebook at Vertu Motors)
- FA Trophy & Vase are both sponsored by Isuzu (follow on Facebook at Isuzu UK)
Premier League sponsors
- 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 X account
- Guinness – Guinness give away PL tickets every month
- Puma
- Coca-Cola & Powerade give away lots of Premier League tickets – usually via the Coca-Cola app
Cadbury
- Cadbury are no longer a Premier League sponsor, but are linked with many PL and EFL clubs. Look out for on-pack instant win 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 X for giveaways.
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car sponsor the National League – follow them on Facebook (DAZN and Errea are also partners)
- Jameson Whiskey are a sponsor for the EFL until 2027/28 – follow them on X
- Panini – official sticker partner
- Kellogg’s – official partner
- Gorilla Glue – broadcast sponsor on Sky Sports
FA partners
- Carling and Lucozade are official partners of the FA.
Champions League sponsors & partners
- 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
- Mastercard
- Bet365
- FedEx
Women’s Champions League sponsors & partners
- Just Eat
- Adidas
- EA Sports
- Euronics
- Heineken
- PepsiCo
- Visa
- Amazon
Europa League sponsors & partners
- Just Eat
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Hankook Tire – check their competitions page
FA Women’s Super League sponsors
- Barclays – follow on Facebook
Scottish Professional Football League sponsors
- William Hill (until 2029/30) – follow @williamhill on X
EURO 2028 sponsors
UEFA EURO 2028 will be held in the UK and Ireland. Sponsors include:
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 Seagull (Brighton) and they run lots of exclusive promotions online, in the programmes, on the apps 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
- Bet365 give away tickets to every Champions League fixture (you need an account but do NOT need to place any bets to enter)
- 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 , Betway and other betting websites run occasional X and Instagram comps for tickets
- The Greene King Sport app has lots of ticket comps but freebies if you’re watching footy in your local GK pub
- Fanzo (previously Matchpint) do regular giveaways
- The Pitchero app and website for grassroots clubs sometimes runs competitions
- 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 do a lot of Champions League ticket giveaways
- SKY subscribers can win football tickets in the VIP section of the Sky app.
- TCL Mobile do footy related giveaways on Instagram!
- Betway give away tickets for West Ham, Arsenal, BHAFC & Man City – follow @betway on X
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.
Anyone know how to find participating venues for the fanzo premier league competition?
I assume VENUES tab in the app will show your locals Hector?
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!