New distribution partnership

Sportech PLC
21 March 2006



 SPORTECH PLC ANNOUNCES NEW FOOTBALL POOLS AND GAMING PARTNERSHIP WITH PAYPOINT

Sportech plc, 'Sportech' or 'the Company', owner of Littlewoods Gaming, is
pleased to announce that it has secured a distribution partnership for
Littlewoods Football Pools and Littlewoods Lotto with PayPoint, one of the UK's
leading retail networks. The new service gives Littlewoods Gaming customers a
convenient and new way to pay, and is complementary to the traditional
Littlewoods door-to-door collectors and online channels.

Customers can make a payment at any of the 14,000 PayPoint outlets using a
simple swipe card payment scheme which utilises the existing Littlewoods
Poolscard. There are over 550,000 regular weekly players of Litttlewoods Pools
and Lotto, of which up to 300,000 use a Poolscard.

Commenting on today's announcement, Gary Speakman, Chief Operating Officer of
Sportech, said:

'We are delighted to have further strengthened our distribution by securing an
agreement with the extensive PayPoint retail network. Our customers will now
have the opportunity to play Littlewoods Football Pools and Littlewoods Lotto in
over 14,000 outlets across their local communities.'

Ian Penrose, Chief Executive Officer of Sportech, added:

'We are committed to our product portfolio and seek to drive new initiatives to
constantly ensure it stays one step ahead of our customers' demands. Our
distribution partnership with PayPoint will improve not only accessibility to
our products but importantly allows our customers a choice of payment options.'

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Enquiries:

Sportech plc
Ian Penrose, Chief Executive Officer              0151 288 3561

Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial
David Rydell / Zoe Sanders                        020 7861 3887


Notes to Editors

Sportech PLC

Sportech PLC provides a variety of betting and gaming opportunities to over 1.7m
customers through Littlewoods Gaming, one of the UK's most established brands.

Drawing on over 80 years of experience, Littlewoods Gaming has developed a
wide-ranging product portfolio which includes football pools and football games,
sports betting and on-line casino, poker and entertainment games including
bingo.

Sportech is continually developing access to its gaming products through a
network of channels including the internet, mobile phones, telephone, post and a
UK network of collectors who visit customers at their homes.

Sportech PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SPO). For more information,
visit www.sportech-plc.co.uk


PayPoint

PayPoint is a leading payment collection network of over 14,000 outlets used,
primarily, for the cash payment of bills and services and prepayments for mobile
telephones and energy meters.

PayPoint began trading in 1996 and initially collected payments through its
network of retail agents for its founder client investors, who included British
Gas, BT, BBC TV Licensing, London Electricity (now part of EDF Energy) and four
water companies.

It now has more than 500 clients including many of the UK and Ireland's major
energy, cable, mobile and fixed line telephony companies. Its blue chip client
list also extends to numerous water companies, local authorities and housing
associations and a growing transport and travel base.

PayPoint listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004.




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