GIBRALTAR, August 19 /PRNewswire/ -- 888sport ( http://www.888sport.com/bet) is offering football fans the chance to take part in a special English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, Spanish La Liga, French Lique 1 and German Bundesliga promotion, to celebrate the start of the new football season across Europe.

The 'Choose Your Team' promotion gives football betting enthusiasts thechance to win special prizes, free bets, their own team's replica footballshirt and also delivers a number of money back guarantees throughout theseason.

To take part in 888sport's 'Choose Your Team' promotion (http://promo.888.com/football-season09/en/?sr=712289), and to availthemselves of all these great offers, football betting enthusiasts musteither already have an account with 888sport or register at 888sport.com andthen simply choose their team.

Not only will they win a free team football shirt of their choice, butnew users could even win money by backing their side, thanks to a GBP50 freebet offer! When the new customer creates their 888sport account and thenplaces a bet of at least GBP15, they will be given a GBP15 free bet token.And when they place more bets they qualify for even more tokens!*

The 'Choose Your Team' promotion began on August 13th and offers 888sportmembers a guaranteed no-lose GBP10 bet. All new 888sport clients have to dois register with 888sport and then choose their team. If they place a bet ofat least GBP10 with odds greater than 2.0 on their team (from the EnglishPremier League, Scottish Premier League, Spanish La Liga, French Lique 1 orGerman Bundesliga) from August 13 to August 30, 2009 they get their moneyback if their team loses, up to a maximum of GBP10.

The second part of the 888sport promotion enables both new and existingcustomers to show their support for their team with a free GBP5 bet on theChampions League outright winner's market!

And also keep an eye out in September for our special Champions Leaguehome theatre prize draw where 888sport will be giving away Champions Leaguetickets and a home cinema set up worth GBP1500.

*The 'Choose Your Team' New Member Offer Explained:

1) Simply open an account with 888sport and start betting

2) When you place a bet of at least GBP15, 888sport will then credit your888sport account with a GBP15 free bet token!

3) Place a further 9 bets of at least GBP15 each, and you will qualifyfor a further 'bet bonus' free bet token of GBP15.

4) Place a further 5 bets of at least GBP15 each, and you will qualifyfor a yet another 'bet bonus' free bet token of GBP20.

Editor's note:

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