…First team to hit 300,000 SMS to get a once- off K1.5 m reward
Blantyre, June 15, 2015—Sponsors of country’s top flag league TNM today proudly announces the re-launch of 2015/2016 Sapota Mapeto promotion, a promotion designed to give football fans opportunity to help their teams to generate revenue.
Speaking during a press briefing marking the launch of the promotion for 2015 season, TNM Chief Commercial Officer Daniel Makata said this year’s promotion has brought new things to excite football funs to participate and support their teams.
“This is the best time to connect and support your favourite clubs. Through our network platform, we are helping clubs raise funds for their operations through an SMS campaign dubbed Sapota Mapeto and in this season TNM has brought new innovative ideas to make the promotion more exciting to the football fans,” Makata said.
Makata expressed optimism that the money to be generated from the promotion will go a long way not only for the general operations of the teams but also towards the welfare of individual players.
“The re-launch of Sapota Mapeto today demonstrates our commitment to uplifting the welfare of our teams especially for players who are our heroes,” he said.
He called on all football loving Malawians to endorse the promotion and support their respective teams to generate resources at the same time wining different prizes in the promotion.
“Our players, our heroes, our pride can only be taken care of and enjoy the game if we all join hands and be part of this exciting Sapota Mapeto promotion,” he said.
To assist the team fans will be asked to send SMS a team code to 1515 and get chance to win monthly prizes of K200, 000 cash, Flames replica jerseys, handsets and airtime. The first team to hit 300,000 SMSs will get K1.5 Million and two fans with highest SMSs will get 40 inch Samsung TVs.
The promotion raised K12.6 million and K16.3 million in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The biggest recipient, Big Bullets Football Club, managed to raise MK9.3 million in 2014.
The promotion shall run from June to the end of the 2015 TNM Super League season in December.
