Online Football Game - EuroSport

Overview

The European Football Game by EuroSport is a football (soccer) stock exchange game (i.e. stock-trading game) where member traders buy and sell virtual shares in major football teams of the continents, five most important football leagues.

Following an easy and simple registration process, the member trader is immediately awarded virtual (i.e. fake) money to begin buying shares in the football teams in the tradeable, market leagues.

The aim of the game is quite simple; to create a portfolio of virtual ownership in real football teams and to make as much profit as you can by buying and selling shares to become a leading trader. Investors of football teams are awarded dividend-type bonuses through goals scored and winning performances of their respective teams.

Eurosport's football game is one that is interesting, keenly followed and offers member traders the chance to win real prizes.

About Eurosport

Eurosport is the leading Pan-European Sports channel reaching over 240 million viewers in 54 different countries.

Eurosport has multi-brand and multi-language coverage in most countries where the company is present through the broadcasting of the TV channels and through multimedia platforms including the europsort.com website.

Eurosport was created in 1989 and is 100 percent owned by TF1, a leading French television channel.

Trading Markets (i.e. Leagues)

The Eurosport European football game is limited to the 5 most important national football leagues of continental Europe. The trading markets are as follows:

• English (Premiership)
• French (Ligue 1)
• German (Bundasliga)
• Italian (Serie-A)
• Spanish (La Liga)

Along with the above leagues, the market includes the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. Teams playing in either of these leagues can pick up bonuses on the outcome of a winning match. The team share will receive a dividend of one star per share per match won.

Trading Activity

As of the beginning of 2007, the Eurosport European football game had 481,740 registered traders and had completed 13,023,699 transactions between them.

Traders create their own portfolios where they can easily manage their investments. The trading interface is simple but effective.

The trader with the highest weekly percentage gain in their portfolio is named Top Trader.

Trading Strategy

It goes without saying that that this game is aligned for ardent followers of European football who watch and monitor the action on a regular basis.

This is not to say one who does not follow European football can't participate in this game. With the simplicity of this game, anyone can get involved and stands the chance to win prizes. Under these conditions, the less-frequent follower of European football should invest in the top echelon (i.e. the top five) of any of the five markets (i.e. national football leagues) available.

Consistent and high-scoring teams are well rewarded in this game along with teams that are involved in UEFA competitions.

Prizes

The Eurosport European football game is a prize-only game. No actual (real) money is used (i.e. traded or won) in any part of the game (including registration sign-up).

During the course of the game, member traders can win regular prizes such as MP3 players, plasma screens, digital cameras, video games and more.

The current prize draw is as follows:

• every day, a video game
• every week, a universal remote or wireless headphones
• every fortnight, an Archos MP3 Video player or an Ipod

Rules

The rules of this game are few and really a commonsense prevails. Any rules broken by a member trader can lead to account suspension and or ineligibility to win prizes.

Typically, you should not:

• Attempt to affect the share prices by means of price-fixing cartels.
• Use multiple accounts to affect share prices.
• Try to affect share prices by manipulating forums and message boards.
• Select usernames which are rude or offensive in any way, as they will appear on the Player's Chart.

SPECIAL MENTION

All accounts that haven't been used for more than three weeks will be deemed as inactive and will be deleted from the database.

You have the possibility to delay account deletion by putting your trading account in 'vacation mode'. Your portfolio account will then stay active for a total of six weeks.

Updates

With the relaunch of the Eurosport European football in 2007, some improvements were made to the game-formulas during a match (i.e. in-play):

"Value Stealing"

For every goal scored, a team receives a certain percentage of the opponent's share value as it was before the match.

"Relative Draw Bonus"

For a draw, both teams get a slight bonus, but it's not much if they are equally strong. If one team is much weaker than the other, it'll receive more bonus if it manages to play draw.

"Away Game Bonus"

A team gets an additional percentage of the opponent's value as a bonus after the match if they win an away game.

Registration

Registration at EuroSports football game is easy and quick which simply requires a username, email address and password. You must activate your trading account by clicking the activation link in the email sent upon registration. The amount of 100,000.00 is deposited into your trading account and you can start trading immediately after this point

Once again, no real money is required or used in this football game whatsoever.

Follow the link to the EuroSport Online Football Game here now.