Satyam Inter-Collegiate Football Challenge kicks off in Bangalore

Bangalore, India, August 19, 2008: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), a leading global consulting and information technology services provider, is supporting the inter-collegiate football tournament to be conducted by Bangalore University for all affiliated colleges. The preliminary matches kicked off today in Bangalore inviting all colleges to participate in the Satyam Football Challenge. The winning team from Bangalore will be announced on August 24th at Bangalore University Campus post the final tournament.

This event is a part of the Satyam Football Challenge, a first-of-its-kind national football tournament, which is supporting the existing Inter college format in Universities across 10 states in India and will be inviting as many as 4,000 college teams to compete for the Satyam Cup. The National level competition featuring all the 10 champion colleges will be held in January in Bangalore and will decide the Champion College of India.

The tourney sponsorship reflects Satyam’s efforts to increase its role in promoting football as a sport around the world. In addition to providing cash prizes at various tournament levels, Satyam will fly the Football Challenge National champion team to South Africa to witness matches at the Confederation Cup in June/July 2009.

Satyam is the official IT Services Provider to the FIFA World Cups in 2010 (Johannesburg) and in 2014 (Brazil).
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