For Matchday Tickets, Oxford City Football Club Will Now Accept Bitcoin

For matchday tickets, Oxford City Football Club will now accept bitcoin via the Lightning Network, which is a first for the sixth-tier English football league. The club will also sport the BTC emblem on their shirts.

The acceptance of Bitcoin (BTC) payments in the United Kingdom has now added a new player. When the new season begins on August 6, Oxford City Football Club hopes to make history by being the first National League team to accept Bitcoin for matchday tickets.

At Oxford City’s RAW Charging Stadium, patrons will be able to pay for tickets, food, and beverages with Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. Cash and credit cards are still accepted as traditional payment methods.

The National League South is the sixth division of English football, where Oxford City Football Club (OCFC) now competes. The club and CoinCorner, an Isle of Man-based Bitcoin business, have a multi-year collaboration. CoinCorner announced a limited-edition Oxford City FC Bolt Card to commemorate their sponsorship of the team’s back of the shirt.

As part of their affiliation with CoinCorner, The Hoops, as they are called locally, will wear a BTC emblem on the back of their matchday shirts. The debut encounter of Oxford City FC (OCFC) on August 6 will also include CoinCorner as the official match sponsor.

OCFC is the “first adopter of Bitcoin payments in the National League,” according to CoinCorner CEO Danny Scott. Scott carried on:

“We believe this move will set a trend across Non-league and Football League divisions as digital currency establishes itself as the new normal for sports fans and event-goers across the U.K.”

“More than 3.3 million people living in the U.K. now possess Bitcoin,” said Justin Merritt, Oxford City FC’s Director of Football, “an increase of almost one million people in the last year alone.”

According to an FCA report from June 2021, up to 2.3 million Britons may possess Bitcoin, and a Coinbase report increased that number to as much as one-third of Britons who are interested in cryptocurrencies. Merritt went on:

It’s not mandatory for people to engage with our new technology, but we believe in time, paying via Bitcoin will become the new normal in English football.”

The number of people using Bitcoin on a daily basis is rising throughout the United Kingdom, and Edinburgh is excited to host a Bitcoin conference in October of this year.

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