As one of the global Official Partners of the 2006 FIFA World CupTM, Continental is entitled to a substantial contingent of World Cup tickets. Continental will be using these World Cup tickets both for business customers and for end users. There is overwhelming international interest in World Cup tickets. On the day sales officially opened via FIFA's own authorised website, over 500,000 ticket orders were received, whilst there are just 812,000 tickets available in the first sales phase. The maximum number available will then be 1.1 million tickets, but demand is expected to exceed the supply many times over. Continental would like to explain here how and where World Cup tickets can be won through competitions, promotions and other activities.

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World Cup tickets for business customers

For business customers, turnover volume through tyres is of course an important aspect in obtaining World Cup tickets. However, there are also ways of winning tickets - for example, by successfully taking part in the Conti Cup 2006, the tyre industry's biggest football championship. Here 350 teams, each with a maximum of ten players (at least four field players, plus a goalkeeper and max. four substitutes and a coach), from tyre outlets and car dealerships across Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be competing for a car for their company, plus 10 x 2 World Cup tickets (for the winner of the Conti Cup 2006) and 10 x 1 World Cup ticket (for the finalists). There will be several qualifying rounds in the Conti Cup 2006, to be held in indoor soccer parks in sixteen different towns and cities. The competition was launched in January 2005 and the final will be held in May 2006 in Hanover, the headquarters of the Continental Group.

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World Cup tickets for end users

Continental will however be using almost half of its contingent of tickets for global end user promotions. In Germany World Cup tickets have already been won at www.sport1.de during the last Bundsliga saison 2004/2005, where contestants had to answer questions about football. In this years Bundesliga saison a winning game is running at the private TV station Premiere.

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The TV channel Eurosport is also offering World Cup tickets for its competition 'Eurogoals', which is presented by Continental on Monday evenings under the motto "It's all a question of technique". To take part in the World Cup tickets draw, contestants have to pick the best goals scored by the top European football league teams.

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During football reports on the German channels ARD ('Sportschau') and ZDF ('Das aktuelle Sportstudio'), a hotline number appears on the screen which fans can ring to take part in a draw for World Cup tickets.

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Continental's online games platform ContiFanWorld, set up in December 2003,  is also aimed at end users; this offers football matches which are changed on a regular basis and is initially scheduled to run only until the 2006 FIFA World CupTM. Registered contestants, who have taken part in all the matches, can win attractive prizes each month (ranging from sports bags and football gear to summer and winter tyres). In January 2006, 5 x 2 World Cup tickets will also be drawn as prizes. The ContiFanWorld site is now available in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch) and is increasingly popular. By May 2005, over 89,000 contestants had signed up and had already played more than three million games.

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The ContiPremiumContact 2 product microsite is also running a competition with the chance to win two World Cup tickets. The draw closed on 31th July 2005.

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During CeBit, the world's largest computer and electronics exhibition, which is held in Hanover, home to Continental, the tyre company offered visitors to the German Federal Government's new World Cup website www.wm2006.deutschland.de the chance to win two World Cup tickets. The draw closed on 18th March 2005.

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There will be more chances to win tickets and we will keep you up to date right here! In the meantime, we wish you the best of luck in the games and competitions. Fingers crossed for your success!