The Football Pools, an iconic Liverpool business, first started selling its coupons outside Old Trafford, home of fierce rivals Manchester United

On average we have a winner every 3 minutes

The Football Pools is the UK’s favourite football gaming brand

Pools, or tote betting, is the most popular legal form of sports-based betting outside of the UK

The global pools market in football and horseracing is worth $80 billion

We donated £600 million to help fund major improvements in stadium safety across many clubs in the UK

The global gaming market is worth $350 billion and growing +5% year on year

Sportech is one of the leading suppliers and operators of pools/tote betting in the world

Sportech has launched a Joint Venture in India

The biggest ever Football Pools top prize was £4 million won in March 2010

The Football Pools is the world’s oldest football gaming company

Across North America, Sportech Racing has a 50% market share in horseracing pools

We have a presence in over 30 countries

We have paid out over £10 billion in prize money to our customers

We are the exclusive operator of pools/tote betting on horseracing in the Netherlands

We are the leading provider of horseracing wagering solutions in North America with over 25,000 terminals

We process over $13 billion in bets every year

The Football Pools has over 500,000 players every week

Over the years we have donated over £1.1 billion to good causes

 

 

Glossary

 

A glossary of terms to explain
the more technical words
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Glossary of terms

EPIC

EPIC codes are used to identify UK listed securities. They are now called TIDM codes and are usually based on an abbreviation of the name of the company. (Sportech = SPO)

EPS

earnings per share

off-track betting networks (OTBs)

locations at which a bet can be placed other than the track itself (hence “off-track”)

pools/tote

a betting pool in which those who bet on competitors finishing in the first three places share the total amount bet minus a percentage for the management. Pools/tote is often also referred to as pari-mutuel

placing and open offer prospectuses

prospectus

shareholder circular

open offer

an offer made by a quoted company to its shareholders inviting them to buy new shares in the company at a set price, which is normally lower than the current market price

placing

when a company has a new issue of its shares, rather than offering the shares for sale to the public at large, it can place the shares with institutions

Pools Panel

during the summer, when football leagues were not in operation in the United Kingdom, football pool competitions were based on the results of football matches taking place in Australia. Matches which were postponed would often have their results adjudicated, for the sake of the football pools results, by a board known as the Pools Panel.Panel members include retired footballers with international experience and retired referees

tote

a specialised system of putting bets on horses or dogs in a race

white label

a white label product or service is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it