FootballMania - a unique fundraiser based on the excitement of football

An exciting sweepstakes based on professional football!

The FootballMania Sweepstakes

Over $15,000 in prize money! 302 different ways to win!
Enjoy the excitement of your “office pool” without the stress of picking teams!
Makes football games exciting even for the most casual fan!

If you like football, you’ll love FootballMania! With each FootballMania game card, you can win $1,000s in prize money by just sitting back, watching the games, and rooting for the teams printed on your game card. The more points your teams score each week, the better chance you have to win! This sweepstakes makes football games exciting for even the most casual fan!

Each FootballMania game card is assigned 3 random teams playing in the last 10 weeks of the professional football season.

FootballMania sweepstakes are exciting and engaging for participants because each game card holder has an equal chance of winning. Each FootballMania sweepstakes game card contains 3 random teams in each of the 10 weeks of the FootballMania season - a different set of teams each week. No two game cards have the same 3 teams in any given week.

Winning game cards are determined based on the points scored by the football teams assigned to it. If two game cards have the same score, the total yards gained by the 3 teams is used as a tiebreaker. The 25 highest scoring game cards and the 5 lowest scoring game cards each week win prize money! Read more about bye weeks and official rules.

Prizes

Throughout the 10-week season, you can check your game card to see if you’ve won. FootballMania sweepstakes game card holders have 30 chances to win a prize in each of the last 10 weeks of the professional football season. They also have a chance to win two grand prizes at the end of the season. There are 4,960 unique game cards, each of which has a minimum 1 in 17 chance to win a prize during the season.

Weekly Winners and Prize Money

Game card with the highest combined score	$400
Second highest score	$200
Third highest score	$100
Runner-Up: next 22 highest scoring	$25
Lowest total score	$50
Runner-Up: next 4 lowest scoring	$25
Total Prize Money Paid per Week	$1400

Grand Prize Winners

Game card with the highest 10 week total	$1,000
Game card with the lowest 10 week total	$200
Total Grand Prize Money Paid.	$1,200

Guaranteed Winners Program (if applicable)

Highest weekly score from your organization

$25

Track your game card and see if you are a winner!

Once you have your game card, you can track your game card’s score at any time to see how well you are doing. There are two easy ways to do this. Option 1: just enter your game card number on the CharityMania website; Option 2: download our free FootballMania mobile app (search for 'CharityMania' in the App Store or Google Play store) and play along.

CharityStudio music downloads

Why sell music downloads? Why not just use the sweepstakes game cards?
There is a legal difference between a sweepstakes and a raffle. In a raffle, people pay money for a raffle ticket that gives them a chance to win prizes. Only specific types of organizations can conduct a raffle and states strictly regulate how the raffles can operate. A sweepstakes is not a raffle. A sweepstakes is a promotion that provides extra incentive for people to buy a product or service that you are selling. The sweepstakes must have a ‘no purchase necessary’ method of entry. In a CharityMania fundraiser, the sweepstakes game cards are for promotion only and are not sold directly. Every time someone buys a CharityMania Ticket, they purchase over $5 to $30 worth of premium music downloads (depending on the price of the CharityMania ticket) from our CharityStudio. The sweepstakes game card is the promotion that provides a great extra incentive for a person to support your cause.

Our Sweepstakes Game Cards work much like the game pieces in the Monopoly sweepstakes at McDonald’s. You can not buy a Monopoly game piece directly. Instead, you purchase things like hamburgers and drinks and receive the game pieces for free. The Monopoly game pieces are a promotion.

No purchase necessary sweepstakes:
All CharityMania sweepstakes are “no purchase necessary”. If someone wants a free sweepstakes game card, they can come to your organization and fill out a request form (provided by CharityMania) to get a free Game Card. They mail the completed request form to CharityMania along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and then we will mail the person a game card. We do not mail them the access code that allows people to download the digital music (because they are not paying). This process is very standard for all companies that conduct sweepstakes.