tombola the country's leading online bingo provider, is Sunderland AFC's principal sponsor having signed a two-year deal with the club ahead of the 2010/11 Barclays Premier League season.

Based in Sunderland and a true city success story, the company and its associated businesses have been involved with bingo for over 50 years, launching the tombola brand in 1999 to service the growing demand for gaming facilities for a number of high-profile websites including Lycos and Lastminute.com, then operating Sun Bingo for two years.

tombola now offers innovative gaming software unique to its own site,tombola.co.uk, helping it to comfortably become the most popular of its kind in the UK with prize money in excess of £3m each week.

Investing millions of pounds in both advertising and developing an exclusive range of games in-house by its expert software developers, tombola employs 130 people on Wearside and is continuing to grow as it transfers its skills across a global gaming market.

To find out more about tombola or to become a member of the UK's largest online bingo community, visit www.tombola.co.uk.

tombola has recently launched websites for Spanish customers, these can be viewed at tombola.es and tombola.it