Bitpanda Football Tickets Giveaway for the 2026/27 Season: The Promotion Has Ended

Update (8 October 2026): This promotion has ended. Entries closed on 24 August 2026 at 23:59 CEST, and the club codes BAYERN26, ARSENAL26, BASEL26 and ACMILAN26 are no longer valid. This article documents how the draw worked. Current offers are listed in our Bitpanda review.

Bitpanda ran a prize draw that put one lucky user in the stands for an entire season. The prize was two General Admission tickets to every home league match of one Bitpanda-sponsored club: FC Bayern München, AC Milan, Arsenal or FC Basel. Entry cost nothing extra beyond a single 50 euro investment on the Bitpanda Broker, and the window closed on 24 August 2026. Here is how the promotion worked, which promo codes applied, and which terms mattered.

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What was the Bitpanda Home Game Tickets promotion?

The Bitpanda Home Game Tickets promotion was a prize draw in which one randomly selected user would win two General Admission tickets to every home domestic league match of a Bitpanda-sponsored football club for the entire 2026/27 season.

The campaign was branded "The Stands Await". It tied directly into the company's football sponsorship portfolio, which now covers FC Basel as main sponsor, AC Milan, FC Bayern Munich, and Arsenal, where Bitpanda became Official Crypto Trading Partner in August 2025.

Only one winner was drawn. There was no tiered prize structure, no runner-up rewards and no cash alternative. The draw was administered by Bitpanda itself, and the Arsenal option in particular was explicitly not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Arsenal Football Club.

When did the Bitpanda football ticket giveaway start and end?

The promotion started on 10 August 2026 at 12:00 CEST and ended on 24 August 2026 at 23:59 CEST; according to the terms, the winner was to be notified by email on 25 August 2026.

That left a window of two weeks. Both the opt-in and the 50 euro purchase had to happen inside the promotion period. Doing one without the other did not count, and a trade completed before the opt-in did not count either.

Bitpanda also reserved the right to change or end the promotion at any time, which is standard language in such terms.

Which clubs could entrants pick, and what do the tickets cover?

The winner chooses one club from FC Bayern München, AC Milan, Arsenal or FC Basel, and receives two tickets per home match in that club's domestic league only.

This was the single most important detail in the terms, and the one many readers misread. The tickets cover the Bundesliga, Serie A, the Premier League or the Swiss Super League depending on the winner's pick. They do not cover:

⚽ Cup competitions (DFB-Pokal, Coppa Italia, FA Cup, Swiss Cup) 
🏆 UEFA Champions League or Europa League fixtures 
🤝 Friendlies and pre-season matches 
✈️ Any away match

The reward is the tickets and nothing else. Travel, flights, transport, hotels, meals and every other cost sit with the winner. A winner living in Beirut who picks Arsenal covers 19 round trips to North London themselves. For most entrants, FC Basel or FC Bayern were a realistic pick only if they already lived in the DACH region.

Bitpanda also accepts no liability if a match is postponed, cancelled, rescheduled or moved, and there is no compensation or replacement in those cases. Resale of the tickets is prohibited, and Bitpanda can revoke them if it detects a breach.

How did entry work, step by step?

To enter, you had to be a fully verified Bitpanda client, opt in via in-app stories or a club promo code, and then buy at least 50 euros of an eligible asset on the Bitpanda Broker during the promotion period.

The flow differed depending on whether you already had an account.

New customers:

1. Created an account and completed identity verification
2. Opened their profile by tapping their name at the top of the app
3. Scrolled down and selected "Got a promo code?"
4. Entered the promo code for their chosen club and tapped "Redeem Code"
5. Invested at least 50 euros in any eligible asset before 24 August 2026

Existing customers:

They joined through the relevant in-app stories and then completed the same 50 euro qualifying transaction. Email opt-in also counted as a valid entry route.

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Which Bitpanda promo code belonged to which club?

Each of the four clubs had its own dedicated promo code, and the code determined nothing about the draw itself, only how you opted in.

🔴 BAYERN26 for FC Bayern München 
🔴 ARSENAL26 for Arsenal 
🔵 BASEL26 for FC Basel 
⚫ ACMILAN26 for AC Milan

The terms state that the winner chooses their club at the point of winning, so the code was primarily an opt-in and attribution mechanism rather than a binding club selection. Only one code was meant to be redeemed. The club codes only worked for this draw, which closed on 24 August 2026; our Bitpanda review lists the current Bitpanda promo codes and bonuses.

Which trades counted toward the 50 euro minimum?

Qualifying purchases had to be made on the Bitpanda Broker and could include crypto-assets (excluding EURCV), stocks, ETFs, ETCs and M-Token.

The exclusions were more telling:

❌ Any volume traded before you opted in 
❌ Transactions on Bitpanda Fusion 
❌ Opening or closing Bitpanda Leverage positions (L-Token) 
❌ Margin Trading 
❌ Bitpanda Cash Plus

ETCs and ETFs are not available in Switzerland, so Swiss users backing FC Basel had to use crypto, stocks or M-Token for their qualifying trade.

The 50 euro threshold was a purchase minimum, not a deposit minimum. The trade had to be executed; funding the account was not enough.

Who could not take part in the Bitpanda giveaway?

UK residents were excluded for regulatory reasons, along with institutional clients, market makers, Bitpanda Enterprise users, and Bitpanda employees and their immediate family.

The UK exclusion was the most surprising, since Arsenal was one of the four clubs on offer. Bitpanda clients resident in the United Kingdom could not enter, even though a Premier League club sat in the prize pool.

Bitpanda could also disqualify anyone it suspected of tampering with the entry process, colluding with other participants, breaching the terms, or providing inaccurate information. A dead or mistyped email address on the account was grounds for disqualification too.

What happened after the promotion ended?

According to the terms, one winner was to be drawn at random after 24 August 2026 and contacted by email on 25 August 2026, with only 36 hours to respond before the prize passed to an alternate.

That 36 hour clock was unusually short. Bitpanda took no responsibility for undeliverable emails, and non-response counted as a refusal. If the first winner did not reply, an alternate participant was to be drawn, and the process repeated until someone was confirmed.

There was no substitution and no cash equivalent, although Bitpanda reserved the right to swap the prize for something of equal or greater value if there was an objective reason to do so.

Was the Bitpanda football ticket giveaway worth entering?

It was worth entering for anyone already planning to buy crypto or stocks on Bitpanda, since the entry cost was a trade they would have made anyway, but it was no reason to invest money that had not already been allocated.

The prize was genuinely large in monetary terms. A full season of Bundesliga or Premier League home tickets for two people runs into four figures at face value, and considerably more at market rates. But there was a single winner from what was likely a very large entrant pool, so the odds were correspondingly slim.

The 50 euro qualifying purchase was a real investment, not a fee. It stayed with the buyer, subject to market movement, which is the key distinction from a paid raffle. For anyone holding an existing DCA plan on Bitpanda or about to top up a position, opting in first was close to free optionality. For everyone else, the giveaway was marketing rather than an opportunity.

For entrants outside Western Europe, the travel maths mattered more than the headline: a season of home tickets you cannot realistically attend is worth far less than it sounds, and the terms barred reselling them.

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