The Sun Dream Team 2026/27 – General terms & conditions

THESE General Terms & Conditions apply to your use of The Sun’s Dream Team website and app, including any games available on The Sun’s Dream Team website and app from time to time. All capitalised terms are defined in section 6 (Glossary and Definitions) below The Game Rules set out the terms and conditions for playing each Game and provide you with information about how to enter, play and win Prizes for that Game. These General Terms & Conditions together with the Game Rules, the Loyalty Programme Terms and the Privacy Policy set out the contract between you and the Promoter in relation to your use of the Services. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! You will be deemed to have accepted the Dream Team Terms & Conditions and agree to be bound by them, by setting up an Account and/or playing any Game. It is important that you always consult the Game Rules for each Game you play. You can find the Game Rules here. GENERAL TERMS & CONDITIONS SECTION 1: KEY TERMS AND INTRODUCTIONSECTION 2: REGISTRATIONSECTION 3: IMPORTANT RULESSECTION 4: OTHER LEGAL TERMSSECTION 5: PRIZESSECTION 6: GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS SECTION 1: KEY TERMS AND INTRODUCTION You should carefully read all of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions before playing any Games, but we draw your attention in particular to the following sections of these General Terms & Conditions: Section 2.1 Eligibility: This section explains who is eligible to register and play the Games and the consequences if you do not meet the eligibility criteria. For example, you must be at least 18 years old and located and resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, where the Services are legally permitted. Section 3.2 Fraud, cheating, unfair play and other prohibited behaviour: This section explains behaviour that is not allowed and considered a breach of these General Terms & Conditions. Section 3.3 Consequences of breaching the Dream Team Terms & Conditions: This section explains the action that may be taken if you breach the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, including closure of your Account and Prizes being forfeited. Section 3.4 Errors: This section explains how we will deal with any errors that affect the Services (including technical errors and malfunctions with the operation of the Games and information provided in the relation to the Services). Please note in particular that Prizes may be void if they are affected by an error or malfunction. Section 3.7 Limitations of Liability: This section contains certain limits on what we will be liable to you for and what compensation you can recover from us. Section 4.3 Personal Information: This section explains how we can use your personal information, including the circumstances in which we can provide your personal information to certain third parties. Section 5.1 Prizes: This section sets out eligibility for Prizes, depending on where you are resident and your postal address. Dream Team is not a gambling product in the UK, however subject to your opt-in preferences, you may receive marketing communications relating to gambling products. To opt-out or for more information please see GAMSTOP. The marketing communications are optional and do not affect your chances of winning Prize(s) in the Games. You are NOT required to give consent to receive such emails or offers in order to participate in the Games or win any Prize. SECTION 2: REGISTRATION In order to play any of the Games made available on the Dream Team Hub, you must first : 1. set up an Account with The Sun (if you haven’t done so previously); and 2. complete the Dream Team Hub registration process. Once you have an Account and are registered on the Dream Team Hub, you can play any of the Games made available on the Dream Team Hub during the current Game Year which runs from 3 August 2026 to and including 26 July 2027. For further information as to whether you’re eligible to play any of the Games on the Dream Team Hub, please see section 2.1 below. 2.1 Eligibility In order to have an Account and play the Games, you must: (a) be aged 18 or over; (b) be a consumer (by this we mean that you must be using the Services for personal use and not for any commercial purpose); and (c) be located and resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. You acknowledge that access to our Services may be illegal in certain jurisdictions, and you may not attempt to access the Service from any such jurisdiction, or a jurisdiction which is subject to economic sanctions administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK government, the Council of the European Union, and/or the UN Security Council. The following individuals may play the Games (and be visible in leaderboards) but are excluded from winning any Prizes in any of the Games: Employees and agents of the Promoter, News Corp UK & Ireland Limited or any associated, affiliated and subsidiary companies of the Promoter or News Corp UK & Ireland Limited; Employees and agents of (i) any organisation directly connected with the operation or fulfilment of any Games (including third party promotional partners) and (ii) any associated, affiliated or subsidiary companies of such organisations or partners; and immediate family members and household members of all such employees and agents of the organisations referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b). If we become aware that you do not fulfil all of the eligibility criteria set out at sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above, we may void your Account and/or your access to play the Games. Should you have intentionally misrepresented your eligibility to have an Account and/or play Games you may be required to forfeit Prizes including those already received by you, which must be promptly returned to us. You will need internet access to play the Games. Internet, data and related costs will be at your own expense. 2.2 Information Requirements You must supply all information requested at the time of registration for the Games which may include: 1. what football club you support;2. your first and last name;3. email address;4. password;5. mobile number;6. date of birth; and7. your country of residence. Your entries and all information provided by you must be accurate, up to date and complete. SECTION 3: IMPORTANT RULES 3.1 Keeping your Account secure You are responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. Any Prizes under your Account will be yours (except those which have been deemed void or forfeited in accordance with these Dream Team Terms & Conditions). It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality and security of your Account information. We cannot reverse any team selections or transfers that may have been made in error or which you believe were made by someone who was not authorised to do so. 3.2 Fraud, cheating, unfair play and other prohibited behaviour The following is prohibited behaviour and considered a breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions: ● using more than one Account; ● allowing a third party (including a family member or friend) to use your Account; ● using your Account for the benefit of a third party in a manner which is not permitted by the Dream Team Terms & Conditions; ● deliberately taking unfair advantage of any fault, loophole or error in the Services; ● attempting to defraud us; ● colluding with others to create an unfair advantage (for example, this can include entering multiple family members and/or friends in order to maximise the number of entrants that you manage (individually or collectively) for any Game; ● cheating or unsportsmanlike behaviour of any kind; ● providing materially false or misleading registration data; ● undertaking any fraudulent activity (including but not limited to money laundering); ● using automated processes of any kind to facilitate any element of participating in any Game; ● using any information that is not publicly available (including but not limited to information acquired from any persons directly or indirectly involved in any fixtures relevant to any Game) in order to enhance your chances of success; and/or ● any other breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions. 3.3 Consequences of breaching the Dream Team Terms & Conditions If you are in breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, we may suspend and/or close your Account, void your entries in any Game and invalidate and withhold any or all Prizes. If any such invalidated Prizes have already been paid out or received by you then you must immediately return the Prize to us. In addition, if there is reasonable cause to suspect a crime has been committed, we may share information (together with your identity) with the police and other fraud prevention agencies. 3.4 Errors We take reasonable care to ensure that our Games operate as intended and the information provided in relation to the Services is accurate but on rare occasions errors or malfunctions may occur and these may not be obvious to you. If there is any error or malfunction with the operation of any Game or any other information provided in connection with the Game that materially impairs the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Game then we may correct such error at any time and may, acting reasonably, withhold, reclaim or invalidate Prizes which are affected by such error. 3.5 Changes to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions We may make changes to all or part of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions from time to time, for example to: • reflect any changes to the Services (including any new Games); • for valid security, legal or regulatory reasons; • to address any change in the format of any tournament to which any of the Games relate (e.g. a shortened Premier League season). If the Promoter makes changes to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions it will notify you by email and may post a notice on the Dream Team Hub. In addition, we reserve the right to introduce a feature within the Game itself that may require you to actively accept updated Terms & Conditions before you can continue to access or use the Services. This may include, but is not limited to, a prompt or notification within the Game or on the Website that asks you to review and accept the revised Terms & Conditions. If you do not accept the updated Terms & Conditions when prompted, you may be unable to continue using some or all of the Services until you do so. Your continued use of the Services will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to such changes. We may introduce new Games from time to time. Each Game has its own Game Rules. Please read the Game Rules carefully before playing each Game. We may need to make changes to the Game Rules for a Game from time to time, for example for security, legal or regulatory reasons. We may also need to make changes to the Loyalty Programme Terms from time to time. We will do our best not to change the Game Rules of a Game you are already playing or participating in if to do so would be materially detrimental to you, although very occasionally and usually due to circumstances outside of our reasonable control this is unavoidable. If we change any Game Rules or the Loyalty Programme Terms, we will post a notice on the Dream Team Hub. Your continued use of the relevant Game and participation in the Loyalty Programme will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to such changes. 3.6 Our responsibility for third party content and other matters Some of the information provided by us is supplied to us by our third party partners. We have no control over third party content and are unable to guarantee the accuracy of such third party content. Before relying on any information, whether it is from the partner or from its third party partners, you should verify the accuracy of such information. The availability of the Services does not constitute an offer, solicitation or invitation by us for the use of the Services in any jurisdictions in which such activities are prohibited by law. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any breach of the law of any state, country or other localities that may occur as a result of your usage of the Services. The App is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple for any of its contests or sweepstakes within the App and is solely the responsibility of the Promoter. We may restrict access to the Games and Services from time to time as reasonably required to perform necessary maintenance and upgrades. All planned maintenance and upgrades will be communicated to you by notice on the Dream Team Hub. 3.7 Limits on our liability to you References to “we”, “our” or “us” in this section include all of the Promoter’s associated companies. You have certain rights under the law and there are certain matters for which we are not permitted by law to limit or exclude our liability to you. This includes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Nothing in the Dream Team Terms & Conditions shall affect these rights or any such liability that we may have to you. If our Services damage your device or any software installed on it as a result of our failure to use reasonable care and skill, please let us know by contacting us using the Contact Us form on our Dream Team Hub. We may ask you to provide information such as photographs or screenshots about what has happened so that we can understand the problem. Without prejudice to your rights, and the restriction on our rights to limit our liability, as set out in the first paragraph of this section 3.7 we and our subsidiary, associated and affiliated companies exclude responsibility and all liability for: ● any losses that were not foreseeable (i.e. it was not an obvious loss or damage) to you and us when you registered to play the Games. ● any losses that are not caused by our breach of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions or any legal obligation owed by us to you. ● any delay, failure, act or default in relation to the Services caused by events outside our reasonable control (e.g. including but not limited to technical problems from traffic congestion on the internet, or storms). ● connectivity, hardware or software issues caused by third parties or factors outside of our control. ● incompatibility of any Game or content with any other software or hardware (including compatible registered devices) which is outside our reasonable control. ● issues arising from participating in or from downloading third party content. ● any damage to devices or content that belong to you where such damage would not have been caused if you had followed our reasonable instructions. ● any act or default of any third party supplier or provider, device manufacturer or provider of a device operating system, which are beyond our reasonable control. ● lost, corrupted, damaged, unclear, inaudible, delayed or otherwise invalid entries. Proof of calling or sending or transmission of an entry shall not be proof of receipt or acceptance of an entry. SECTION 4: OTHER LEGAL TERMS 4.1 Customer Services and Resolving Issues If you have a complaint about a Game, please contact us using the Contact Us form on our Dream Team Hub. Alternatively, you can tweet us at @DTcustsupport or write to us at News Group Newspapers Limited, Customer Liaison Dream Team, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF United Kingdom, providing details of your complaint and your contact information. We will always do our best to help resolve your complaint as quickly as possible but in any event within 28 days. 4.2 Regulatory Information Our Games are free to play and are not gambling products and so the Promoter is not required to be licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission of Great Britain or other equivalent regulatory body for the country where you are legally permitted to access the Services. You acknowledge that access to our Services may be unlawful in certain jurisdictions, and you may not attempt to access the Service from any such jurisdiction, or a jurisdiction which is subject to economic sanctions administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the UK government, the Council of the European Union and/or the UN Security Council. 4.3 Your personal information Please see our Privacy Policy for information about how News Group Newspapers Limited (the Promoter and publisher of The Sun) will use your personal information, including for the purposes of the Services and any Prizes to be delivered and other purposes as may be specified or consented to at the time of entry or on promotional materials. The information provided may be shared with the Promoter’s agents, affiliates and, if applicable, any third party prize provider (including those outside the UK/European Economic Area) who will process such information in accordance with their own privacy policy. In addition to the uses of your personal information as described above, we may share the information we hold on you, including your personal information with regulators, sporting bodies, the police, other law enforcement bodies and any other bodies necessary in order to investigate fraud, money laundering or sports integrity issues and to comply with our regulatory duties. Subject to data protection law, we may need to disclose information relating to you and/or the Games (which may include information provided by you to us) to any relevant regulatory authorities in order to comply with our regulatory obligations. 4.4 Exclusion of any other agreements The Dream Team Terms & Conditions and any document expressly referred to in them and any guidelines or rules posted on the Dream Team Hub represent the agreement between you and us in relation to the subject matter of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions. If there is any inconsistency between the General Terms & Conditions and the Game Rules then the General Terms & Conditions apply to the extent of the inconsistency. If any provision of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions or any document incorporated by reference is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of such documents remain in full force and effect. 4.5 Applicable Law The laws of England and Wales apply to the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, although if you are resident elsewhere you will retain the benefit of any mandatory protections given to you by the laws of your country. Any disputes will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. This means that you can choose whether to bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales or in the courts in the country where you live if you live outside of England and Wales. 4.6 Trade mark and Copyright Statements The trade marks “The Sun”, “Sun”, “Dream Team” (in relation to fantasy games), “Dream Team Season” and logos are owned by the Promoter. Copyright in the Games, any Game mechanics, scoring system, any graphics or text comprising of or used in the Games, the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, and any other intellectual property rights associated with the Games are the sole property of the Promoter. You may print off a copy of the Dream Team Terms & Conditions for your personal reference with regards to playing the Games. Except as may be necessary to play the Games in accordance with the Dream Team Terms & Conditions, no other intellectual property relating to the Games may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without our prior written consent. SECTION 5: PRIZES 5.1 Prizes Save as otherwise stated, there are no alternatives to the Prizes stated for each Game and the Prizes are not transferable and no part or parts of any Prize may be substituted for other benefits, items or additions. However, we may substitute a Prize with one of equal or greater value in the event that we are unable to award the stated Prize for any reason. All Prizes are only available if you are resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland and your postal address for receipt of any such Prize is in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. The provision of any Prize by a third party prize provider does not imply endorsement by us of the third party prize provider or any other third parties concerned in any way with the Games. Third party terms and conditions apply to any such Prize by a third party where applicable. 5.2. Prize Payments to winners All verified winners of cash Prizes will be paid by electronic transfer to your bank account once ID, age verification and any other checks as we may reasonably determine appropriate to verify your age, identity, location and to meet legal obligations, have been carried out and we have details of your bank account or any other bank account that we believe may be linked to your Account. We will do our best to verify the results within 14 days of the relevant Game Prize award. We will then seek to pay the winner within 28 days of receiving your bank details. Once payments have been sent to your bank account, the Promoter is unable to transfer funds to a different bank account. If the attempted payment of a cash Prize to you fails for any reason (such as the transaction is not accepted by the issuing bank) then we will also attempt to contact you by the mobile number and/or email address you have provided to us when registering for an Account and/or to play the Games or updated by you subsequently, and arrange appropriate payment to you. We may suspend the award of any Prizes in the event of the occurrence of an event outside our control which might include: network failures, malfunctions to our systems, war, terrorist activity, riots, malicious damage, fire, flood, storm, nuclear accident or compliance with any new law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction. We will award you any Prizes due to you as soon as the relevant event outside our control allows us to do so. If you are a winner and: (a) we are unable to contact you despite our best efforts for any reason within 14 days of the winner being determined; or (b) you refuse or are unable to confirm acceptance of the Prize within 14 days of being contacted, the Promoter reserves the right to forfeit your Prize and select an alternative winner. If any winner is later found to be ineligible to win any Prize for any reason, then the winner must return the Prize back to the Promoter within 28 days of its request. If the Promoter has not yet paid any cash Prize or awarded any non-cash Prize, then it will be forfeited and no Prizes will be awarded to the ineligible entrant under any circumstances. All cash amounts will be paid in British Pounds Sterling. If your bank account is in a different currency, (e.g. Euros) the cash Prize amount may differ to the amount stated due to the then current conversion rate offered by your bank and may be subject to conversion fees (these are both outside of the control of the Promoter and the Promoter cannot be held responsible for any discrepancies or fees). 5.3 Winners’ Details The Promoter proposes to make available a list of winners, subject to any objections from the relevant individuals. For a copy of the list, please send a stamped self-addressed envelope by no later than 28 days after the end of the relevant Game to the Sun Fantasy Games Dept, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom, marked ‘Dream Team 2026/27 Winners’. If a winner objects to this information being made available, they should inform the Promoter at the earliest opportunity however within 15 days of receipt of relevant Game Prize award by emailing dtgeneral@dreamteamfc.com, or by completing the Contact Us form in the ‘Help’ section. Winners acknowledge that the Promoter may still be required to share their details with the Advertising Standards Authority or other regulators. Additionally, we reserve the right to publish the first initial, surname, team supported and/or country of residence of any Prize winners on the Dream Team Hub and any other websites or apps operated by the Promoter or our group companies, and in any emails we may send relating to the Games. SECTION 6: GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS In the Dream Team Terms & Conditions the following words and expressions will have the following meanings: ACCOUNT means The Sun account held by you with us which may be used to access the Services and register and play the Games. APP means The Sun’s official Dream Team iOS and/or Android mobile application(s). DREAM TEAM FANTASY GAME means the free-to-play Dream Team fantasy football game. DREAM TEAM HUB means the Website or App where you can access the Dream Team Fantasy Game and additional Games (which may include Score Predictor and Higher or Lower?). DREAM TEAM TERMS & CONDITIONS means the General Terms & Conditions together with the Game Rules, the Loyalty Programme Terms and the Privacy Policy. GAME YEAR means the period from 3 August 2026 to and including 26 July 2027 encompassing all relevant domestic, European and international fixtures (as specified in the relevant Game Rules) during that period . GAME means each game available via the Dream Team Hub from time to time, including: (a) the Dream Team Fantasy Game; (b) Score Predictor Games and (c) any additional games or competitions that the Promoter may introduce subsequently to the commencement of the Game Year, such as Higher or Lower? and/or Last Man Standing. GAME RULES means the applicable rules for each Game, as set out here. GENERAL TERM & CONDITIONS means these general terms & conditions applicable to the Services, as set out in this document. HIGHER OR LOWER? means the Game of the same name accessed through the Dream Team Hub. LOYALTY PROGRAMME means the programme related to the Games that rewards players for engaging with the Games and for hitting performance targets in those Games. LOYALTY PROGRAMME TERMS means the terms & conditions applicable to the Loyalty Programme, as set out here. PRIVACY POLICY means the Promoter’s privacy policy, as set out here. PRIZE means any prize (including, without limitation, non-cash prizes, cash prizes of varying amounts and any ‘runner-up’ prizes) awarded or to be awarded to a winner of a Game. PROMOTER means News Group Newspapers Limited (company number 00679215), whose registered office is at 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, United Kingdom. SCORE PREDICTOR means the Score Predictor game accessed through the Dream Team Hub. SERVICES means the Games, Website, App and related services and/or advertising. WE, OUR or US means the Promoter. WEBSITE means dreamteamfc.com YOU or YOUR means you. Futher reading: Game Rules Futher reading: Loyalty Programme Terms