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Mobile and broadband telecoms giant Vodafone UK has announced the launch of a new Champions Travel eSIM, which forms part of the operator’s major new multi-year partnership with UEFA and UC31 to support the development of women’s and men’s European football.
The Champions Travel eSIM apparently aims to “provide worry-free travel with global data connectivity in 206 countries“, including UEFA’s 55 member associations. The Champions Travel eSIM includes unlimited data and multiple top-up options, as well as the opportunity to create WiFi hotspot zones and a dedicated customer service desk.
Vodafone said they will also offer Champions Travel eSIM customers the opportunity to win free match tickets via periodic lucky draws.
Ahmed Essam, CEO of European Markets at Vodafone, said:
“It is great to once again be associated with European football. We are excited to sponsor women’s football, which is one of the fastest growing sports globally. As an official licensee of the men’s flagship club competition, Vodafone will help to further enhance the experience for fans, and we will launch the Champions Travel eSIM, with a range of benefits for football fans around the world.”
The announcement points to their global travel.vodafone.com service for more details, which reveals two data-only ‘Champions‘ eSIMs (follow the UEFA link at the very top). The first eSIM costs £9 and that will give you just 5GB (GigaBytes) of data to use over 5 days, while the second eSIM offers “unlimited” data for £21 to be used over 5 days.
You could of course pick Holafly’s “unlimited” data eSIM for Europe at just £17 for 5 days and save money, but the catch is that this only works across 33 countries and so you’ll need to consider if that works for your travel plans or not first. The Holafly service also limits WiFi Hotspot (tethering) sharing to 500MB per day, which is a pretty big caveat (500MB doesn’t get you very far in 2025).