MKG launches the World Cup'26 edition of the MKG Football Pool

The famous MKG Football Pool is back! Every European Championship and World Cup we organize a football pool for our customers, contacts, and colleagues from the metal industry. Mainly intended to increase mutual engagement, but of course, you can also race for the prizes. Football expert or not, every metal professional can join.

Metal professional?

 

The MKG Football Pool brings all metal professionals together. Not only MKG customers but also non-customers are very welcome. If you work in the metal industry, register for the special subleague Metal industry professionals.

Signing up is very easy. You can enter your predictions up to 1 minute before the start of the first World Cup match. And you can still adjust them if needed. Once the tournament has started, you will regularly receive updates from us on the standings. To get the conversation going by the coffee machine.

 

How to participate?

 

You can register via the button at the bottom of this article. Want more information about registering, logging in, and entering predictions? Then check this article first.

Here you will also see which prizes are at stake. For Metal industry professionals, there are no less than 3 company prizes and 3 individual prizes to be won.

But why keep reading if you want to join right away and enter your predictions? You can. Just push the button. We look forward to seeing you at the MKG Football Pool.

 

 

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