Get Chanting and Win!
Thank you for your interest in our football chants competition.
The season has now closed. The judging panel, including football poet Ian McMillan
and last season's competition winner Terry Cockell, will be making their final selections,
and the winners will be announced soon!
Do come back to find out which chants have been selected as the nation's finest, and awarded
prizes of fantastic football tickets courtesy of Coca-Cola.
And don't let this stop you creating new chants! Ian McMillan has some top tips for writing
brilliant football songs below.
About the Chant Competition
There's nothing more motivating for your favourite football team than a catchy chant
sung at full volume around the football ground!
That's why this season Get On assembled heavyweights from across the footballing
world, including the Footall League Trust and Coca-Cola, to launch a competition
to find the nation's best new football chant!
The competition is now in its second season, after Southend FC fan Terry Cockell won
last year's with his chant to the tune of The Wombles theme.
However, this season's competition comes with a twist - as well as entering by
post and online, fans were encouraged to film clips of their chants, and upload them
to YouTube. As world Cup fever grips the country, in this season's competition fans also
had the option of entering a new, special category, with a chant dedicated to England's
World Cup bid.
Top footie poet Ian McMillan has enlisted former winner Terry's help to judge the entries.
The winning chants will be announced soon, so watch this space!
Full terms and conditions of the competitions.
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Top Tips for Writing Football Chants
The chant competition was launched to tap into the nation's writing talents
and show just how creative with language football fans can be.
A good football chant is short, simple and memorable so it can be easily learned and sung by the crowd.
It's amazing how a new chant can travel round a football ground if the rhythm works, it makes you laugh and sounds great when sung really loud!
Here are some tips from chant expert Ian… plus what he'll be looking for in the winning chants:
- A good chant is simple and memorable
- Rhyme helps, repetition helps, and rhythm is essential
- There's no point writing a complex chant because it has to be picked up instantly by thousands of people who've got their mouths full of pie! I'm looking for something that can be sung on a wet Tuesday evening during a nil-nil draw which will magically turn it into a 4-3 thriller…
- And finally… always say the chant out loud once you've created it to check it sounds great - try testing it out at a match to see if you can get others to join in!
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Last Season's Winning Chant
Football chants need to be memorable, short and rhythmic so that they can be easily learned and sung by the crowd. The best chants are the ones that get the crowd going and are performed with all of the love of the game.
Last year we received hundreds of entries. Our seven finalists won tickets from Coca Cola and the opportunity to compete in a live chant off in front of John Barnes and Ian McMillan.
The winner on the day was Terry Cockell, who received a signed England shirt and the opportunity to record his chant with John Barnes. His chant was about his team Southend United FC to the tune of The Wombles theme tune.
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Competition Terms & Conditions
August 2009 - January 2010
- The competition is open to UK residents aged 16 or over, other than employees of the Learning and Skills Council, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, its agencies or their families.
- There are 10 sets of prizes to be allocated to winners:
- 10 sets of 2 tickets to see the Coca-Cola Championship, League One and League Two club of the winner’s choice, during the 2009/2010 season*
There are 2 tickets maximum per prize winner
*Championship, League One and League Two tickets are provided courtesy of Coca-Cola. Winners may request their preferred club for the tickets and the Promoter will aim wherever possible to honour.
- An additional category has been launched to recognise the best World Cup chant submitted to the competition. Entries to this category will form part of the overall judging process to win one of the main prizes on offer (see point 2 above), but the best in category will receive a special commendation from the judges.
- The prize is subject to availability.
- The Promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equivalent or greater value if this is necessary for reasons beyond its control.
- Entries must be submitted online via You Tube, via the online entry form at www.direct.gov.uk/geton or by post to the following address: Get On Campaign Office, c/o Fishburn Hedges, 77 Kingsway, London WC2B 6SR. Contact details and all other mandatory fields must be completed, and all entries to arrive or be submitted online by midnight on the 24th January, 2010.
- Entries submitted via You Tube will be reviewed for suitability before being uploaded to the Get On Football Chants You Tube channel. The Get On team will contact individuals via their You Tube account for contact information to complete their entry.
- Entries submitted via You Tube must be tagged with "Get On Football Chants" and made public to ensure they are valid.
- The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges including Ian McMillan and John Barnes, the 2008-9 winner and selected on a range of criteria including originality, creativity, use of language, humour and topicality. Winners will be notified by the Promoter by telephone or email.
- Entries submitted containing any material considered to be obscene, including but not restricted to racism, homophobia, sexism or offensive language and swearing, will be disregarded and disqualified from the competition. The Judges’ decision as to what constitutes offensive language is final.
- Chants entered into the competition must be new and the original work of the person submitting the entry. By submitting a chant to the competition entry, entrants are attesting their chant is original and wholly their own work. Entries will be evaluated in good faith, based on this assertion, however the Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any chant felt to be copied or plagiarised from elsewhere.
- The Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Entries that do not comply in full with any of these rules may be disqualified.
- A list of prize winners may be obtained by written request by sending an SAE to Get On Campaign Office, c/o Fishburn Hedges, 77 Kingsway, London WC2B 6SR on or before the 31st March 2010.
- The winner will be required to participate in publicity events after the draw and by entering the promotion acknowledge their consent to take part in publicity and for their name, photo and chant to be published where required.
- No cash alternative will be offered for the prize.
- By entering this competition you hereby transfer all copyright to the Promoter and confirm that you will from time to time sign all documents necessary to confirm such transfer.
- The Promoter reserves the right to alter, amend or foreclose this Competition without prior notice in the event that unforeseen circumstances make this unavoidable.
- Contact information submitted via You Tube, online and by post will be used solely for the purposes of the Competition, and will securely erased on the Competition’s termination. The Learning and Skills Council and its agencies will not pass on contact information to any third parties.
- The Promoter is the Learning and Skills Council, Cheylesmore House, Quinton Road, Coventry CV1 2WT.
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