Terms

The club lottery in full. If anything here disagrees with something else on the site, this page is the one that counts.

Who runs it

Milford Athletic Football Club, Wildwood Park, Stafford. Registered as a small society lottery with Stafford Borough Council under Schedule 11 Part 5 of the Gambling Act 2005, registration number LL1/2324. The registered promoter is Ian Mellor.

Who can play

You must be 16 or over. We will ask you to confirm that when you join, and a ticket bought by anyone under 16 is void and refunded.

What a ticket costs and what it buys

£1.50 per monthly draw. A full season is twelve draws for £18.00. Join part way through a season and you pay for the draws that are left, not the ones that have gone.

Each ticket carries the name of a football club and that name is yours for the season. Every ticket has exactly the same chance of winning whichever club it carries.

Paying, and renewing

You can pay by Direct Debit or by card. Your ticket renews automatically each 1 October, by the same Direct Debit or card, for the season ahead. That is what lets a renewing ticket keep its club. Your bank or card details are held by Stripe, our payment provider, and never by us.

By Direct Debit, you pay for the draws left in the season in one payment. A Direct Debit takes 7 to 10 days to clear, so if you join close to a draw you pay for that draw by card today, and the rest of the season is taken by Direct Debit on the 1st of the next month. The amounts and the date are shown before you pay. Your Direct Debit is covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee.

By card, you pay for the draws left in the season in one payment.

You can cancel at any time from your own ticket page. Cancelling stops the next renewal and nothing further is taken. It does not end the season you have already paid for: you stay in every draw your payment covers, and there are no refunds once a season is paid.

Your club name is reserved the moment your payment goes through, or the moment your Direct Debit is set up. A ticket is only in a draw once it has been paid for. A Direct Debit counts as paid when it clears, and if it does not go through, the club goes back into the pool.

The prizes

Half of everything taken in a month is paid back out as prizes that month. The other half stays with the club. Three cash prizes are drawn, and because the pot is a share of what was taken, the prizes rise as more tickets sell. Prizes are always whole pounds.

Five runners-up are drawn before the cash prizes and each wins its member a free entry in the following draw. A free entry costs nobody anything, so it adds nothing to the pot and takes nothing from the club's half.

A club can only win once in a draw. Hold more than one ticket and your clubs can take more than one prize between them.

The team prize

When you join you pick the Milford team you support, and every ticket you buy counts towards that team. The team whose supporters raise the most through tickets over the 2026/27 season, counted when the season ends in September 2027, will have its Christmas party in December 2027 paid for by the club. The club decides what the party payment covers and pays it to the team, not to any member. Only teams taking part in the competition can win it, and the club's decision is final. The running order is on the Teams page.

The draw

Draws are on the last Friday of the month at 7:30pm. Sales close one hour before. If a draw has to be moved we will publish the new date on this site and email everyone who is in it.

Winning and being paid

Winners are announced by club name and never by member name. We contact you on the email address you gave us and the club pays you directly. Keep your email address up to date, because it is the only way we have of reaching you.

Any question about a prize goes to treasurer@milfordathletic.com, or message the club on WhatsApp on 07457402660.

Refunds

There are no refunds once a ticket is paid for. You stay in every draw you have paid for until the season ends.

Leaving

You can tell us at any time that you do not want to play again, and we will not email you when the next season opens. It does not take you out of the draws you have already paid for: those run to the end of the season, and your club name is released after the last one.

Behaviour

Everyone running this draw gives their time to the club for nothing. Anyone abusive to them, in person, by phone, by email or online, will have their entry cancelled and will not be allowed to play again.

If something goes wrong

We are not a gambling agency but a football lottery, run by the club for the club. If you think a draw has gone wrong, or a payment has, tell us at treasurer@milfordathletic.com and a human will look at it.

How we handle your information is on its own page.