Soccer Stadiums
Acceptance &
Innovation with
Mastercard

In 2021 we focused on an acceptance roll-our strategy at Football stadiums and the Bundesliga first football division. Our goal was to enable stadiums with card-present infrastructure as well as pre-ordering solutions with card-on-file.
Football cabecera
Project Scope

01

Conceptualizing the whole roll-out strategy and payment solutions to be implemented.

02

Liaising and negotiating with all major Bundesliga 1st division football clubs.

03

Technical supervision with all stakeholders involved in the project, from: acquirers (Santander and Sparkasse), payment gateways (Payone), cashless and POS providers (SAP, Profipay), F&B operators (Aramark), Stadiums, Football clubs.

goal

Close the acceptance gap with cash in the segment of sports and stadiums and implement innovation in digital payments via card-on-file solution for online pre-ordering solutions. 

Football Clubs
Innovation Elements: Pre-Order

01

Pre-Order Implementations into the existing app of the club and the website.

02

Card on-file in-app integration.

01

Enable all stadiums with direct Card Present terminals at all POS.

02

Total deployed: 420 fix terminals & 200 mobile terminals.

marketing Action

Priceless Planet Coalition: pay with your Mastercard onsite or online and for every 50€ spent we plant a tree.

Football Marketing Action
OVERALL STATS IN ONE YEAR
90%
of increase on card transactions
20 %
of increase on average per head expenditure