Football Card Generator

The football card generator makes the fundraising card every club, school and pub has passed round at some point. Thirty made-up team names, a space for a name next to each, and a winning team that nobody knows until the card is full. At £2 a team a full card takes £60. Pay out £30 and you’ve raised £30. Fill the names in on screen as people pay, print a blank card for the bar, and draw the winner when you’re done.

How a football card works

1. Set the price and prize. £1 or £2 a team is normal. Leave the prize at 0 and the calculator pays half the takings, which is the most common split.
2. Print a blank card to pass round, or keep it on your phone. Each person picks a team, writes their name and pays.
3. Fill in the names here as they come in. The totals at the top show what you’ve taken and what you’ll raise.
4. Reveal the winning team once the card is full. Tick “only draw from teams that were sold” if you want a winner every time.

Using your own team names

The default names are made up, so nobody’s club badge ends up on a raffle card. If you’d rather use Premier League clubs, horses from a big race or anything else, paste your own list, one per line. The card works with anything from 4 to 80 entries; bigger cards take longer to fill, so 30 is a good balance for a pub or a staffroom.

Keeping it fair

On a paper card the winning team is sealed before anyone buys, so the organiser can’t pick a friend’s team. Doing the draw on screen with everyone watching does the same job, and the draw uses your browser’s secure random numbers. Agree the rule for an unsold winner before you start and write it on the card. For bigger fundraisers, see how to run a raffle, track ticket sales with the CasinoCalcs raffle ticket tracker, or work out a price that hits your target with the raffle ticket price calculator.