Why Vernons | Vernons.com

While it has reinforced its dependable reputation and enjoyed a high profile presence on the internet for several years now, Vernons was already a reliable and trusted name in gaming long before the computer age dawned. Since 1925, in fact, when the company launched its famous football pools coupons.

The competition – now branded The Football Pools – is still running in an expanded form on footballpools.com to this day, much to the delight of more than half a million active players every week. Of course, it was important that our valued reputation, built upon our renowned integrity over a proud 80-year-plus history, was replicated when the business moved online.

Accordingly, as Vernons expanded to offer players a wider range of internet-based games, it was essential that such developments were matched with high-tech security and reliability. Here, too, Vernons comes up trumps. As part of Sportech plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, we are fully licensed and regulated and offer a comprehensive range of safe, secure banking methods.

Naturally, our reputation is underpinned by our ability to create winners. Over the years, we have paid out literally billions of pounds to millions of people.

And it’s not just our loyal customers who have benefited. We have a long, proud  tradition of supporting important causes, from an immediate contribution to the Allied effort when war broke out in 1939, to making regular charitable donations. Indeed, we passed the £1 billion mark in supporting arts and sporting causes as long ago as 1991.  It’s another important feature of our business which we intend preserving.