Exclusive sale of celebrity football tournament tickets

Date: Monday 6th April 2009   
Contact: Claire Duncan  
Phone: +44 (0)20 8394 8345
Email: Out of hours press phone: +44 (0)7943 809162 

Exclusive sale of celebrity football tournament tickets

Pre-sale tickets available for star-studded event in aid of Samaritans

The Automatic at Soccer Six 2009

The build-up to Samaritans’ fundraising event of the year starts today as a very limited number of pre-sale tickets are released for this year’s Celebrity Soccer Six on Sunday 24th May, taking place at Chelsea Football Club's home ground.

With less than seven weeks to go until the event, this year’s celebrity footballers are already in training. JLS, The Hoosiers, The View, Babyshambles, Ben Adams, X Factor’s Austin Drage and NDUBZ are the first names to be released with many more big names to be announced.

Peaches Geldof at Soccer Six 2008

Claire Duncan, from Samaritans, said: “This is the fifth year running that we have been selected as Celebrity Soccer Six’s charity of the year. In these tough economic times Samaritans’ service is more vital than ever, as we receive an increasing number of calls related to unemployment and financial worries. We are hoping for a sell-out event at Stamford Bridge to enable us to raise funds to keep our emotional support service running 24 hours a day. “

Mark Abery, Soccer Six founder, continued: “Soccer Six is a wonderful day for everyone involved and this year promises to be the best yet. We have a knock-out list of celebrities lined up for the bank holiday battle including some past Chelsea legends. This is Soccer Six’s spiritual home and we’re all very excited to be back. To mark this historic occasion we’ll be inviting back all our previous champions and biggest names to compete for this year’s title”

McFly at Socer Six 2008

For your chance to visit Chelsea FC at the historic Stamford Bridge Football Stadium and to see who will triumph as 2009’s Soccer Six champion log on to www.chelseafc.com or to book tickets visit  Ticketmaster or call 0870 534 4444.

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Notes to editors

Ticket prices for Soccer Six:

Adult: £12

Under 12 years: £10

It is the aim of Samaritans to make emotional health a mainstream issue.  Samaritans' vision is for a society where fewer people die by suicide because people are able to share feelings of emotional distress openly without fear of being judged.  Samaritans believes that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence, and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.

Samaritans is a registered charity, founded in 1953, which offers 24-hour confidential emotional support to anyone in emotional distress.  The service is offered by 16,534 trained volunteers and is entirely dependent on voluntary support.  Across the UK, you can call Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 (1850 60 90 90 in the Republic of Ireland) email jo@samaritans.org, write to Samaritans at Chris, PO Box 9090, Stirling, FK8 2SA, or if you are deaf or hard of hearing use the single national minicom number 08457 90 91 92. Log on to www.samaritans.org for more information. Calls from BT will be charged at up to 2 pence per minute at all times. A call set-up fee of 7 pence applies to calls from residential lines. Mobile and other providers' charges may vary.