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Inter Milan and Qatar Airways expand partnership
Inter Milan officially announced Qatar Airways as its new training kit partner for the 2024/25 season. The Doha-based company currently serves as the club’s official airline partner. Nevertheless, the two parties have now decided to expand their collaboration. The Qatar Airways logo will now be featured on all training apparel ...
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Crypto company Kraken and Atlético de Madrid sign sponsorship deal
Crypto platform Kraken is sponsoring La Liga club Atlético Madrid for the 2024/25 season.
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Commercial revenues flat for Manchester United in Q3
For the third quarter ended March 31, Manchester United’s commercial revenues were flat at £69.6 million (€81.6 million). Retail, merchandising, apparel and product licensing were also flat at £28.9 million (€33.9 million), attributable to the Adidas expansion, which was partially offset by lower megastore sales due to nine fewer games ...
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Footballer Mohammed Kudus signs with Skechers
Source: Skechers Muhammed Kudus Skechers latest signing in their quest to become a major football boot brand is official. West Ham United and Ghana national team winger Mohammed Kudus is the latest member of the team. Kudus, known to fans by his nickname Star Boy, has already ...
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Macron to kit out its 15th Spanish club
The Italian brand Macron continues to sign new sponsorship deals with top football clubs. Starting next season and for five more years until at least 2030, Spanish La Liga club Atlético Osasuna will wear a kit with the Macron logo. Macron replaces Adidas as the club’s kit supplier. Osasuna ...
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Skechers launches second edition of Kane’s football boots, global expansion in focus
After a successful debut in Europe with English national team player and Golden Boot winner Harry Kane, who plays for Bayern Munich in Germany, as well as other Premier League players wearing the US brand’s football boots, Skechers is now entering its second season in football. With the new Evolution ...
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Manchester United’s new home kit for 2024/25
Adidas has revealed Manchester United’s home kit for the 2024/25 season. The new design is based on the classic jerseys, which featured slightly fluorescent materials so players could see each other better in the floodlights. The viscose fabric appeared in different shades of red, depending on how the light reflected ...
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11teamsports has a new Chief Commercial Officer
Source: 11teamsports Andreas Kohn According to Fashion United, Germany-based football and teamsports e-tailer 11teamsports has appointed Andreas Kohn as the group’s new Chief Commercial Officer on July 1. With over two decades of experience in sales and strategy, Kohn will lead the commercial areas of all 11teamsports ...
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Macron to outfit two more European clubs
Italian brand Macron continues to dress up top clubs. In the coming season, two more classic football clubs will wear sportswear with Macron’s logo, the Hero, printed on it. The jerseys of Ferencváros, the most titled and supported team in Hungary, will feature the Macron Hero in the coming seasons. ...
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New Balance introduces its first American football cleats
Source: New Balance NB Fortress New Balance is introducing two football franchise models, the NB Prodigy and the NB Fortress, which were first revealed in April at the 2024 NFL draft in Detroit. The brand said the two models were created based on years of athlete insight ...
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Wilson opens football factory in Ohio and extends NFL partnership
According to a press release from Wilson, the National Football League (NFL) and Wilson Sporting Goods have renewed and extended their contract, naming Wilson again as the league’s official football. This partnership has lasted since 1941. As part of the multi-year extension, Wilson debuted its new factory in Ada, Ohio, ...
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Adidas and AFA to continue partnership until 2038
The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) and Adidas have extended their long-term kit supplier contract until 2038. The brand has been Argentina’s supplier since 2001. The long-term extension means that Adidas will continue to outfit the Argentinian men’s, women’s and youth teams throughout the next four FIFA Men’s World Cups in ...
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Dawn of the connected ball
The video assistant referee (VAR) has been a part of professional football in some capacity since at least 2016, with trials going back years before, but it hit the big time at the FIFA World Cup in 2018. Now, six years later, an extended version of it has cost Belgium ...
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Skechers and Harry Kane launch capsule collection
Harry Kane, the current captain of the English national team and center forward at FC Bayern since 2023, has launched an apparel capsule with Skechers. It is their first joint clothing collection, after Kane already acted as ambassador for Skechers’ first football boots, which were launched in Europe in September ...
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Juventus and Fanatics sign merchandise partnership
Serie A football club Juventus and Fanatics, a digital sports platform and a global leader in licensed sports merchandise, have announced a wide-ranging partnership in e-commerce, retail, manufacturing and licensing. Fanatics will manage all aspects of Juventus’ merchandise offering worldwide. The new partnership will run until the end of the ...
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Unisport opens first store in Germany
Unisport, an e-tailer for soccer equipment with a solid social media presence, has opened its first physical store in Germany at Neuhauser Straße 5 in Munich’s city center. Unisport has been operating a successful e-commerce platform in Germany since 2016. “We are delighted to be able to offer our German ...
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Castore announces kit and stadium deal with Everton
Castore has announced a new multi-year deal with Everton. As the new official technical partner of the Premier League club, Castore will supply Everton high-performance playing, training and travel wear, starting from the 2024/25 season. The deal is understood to be worth two to three times more than the club’s ...
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FIFA hit with a labor lawsuit
FIFPro Europe, the association of European footballer unions, has sued FIFA over its unilateral decisions concerning the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, which will be held in the US. According to the complainants, this 21st edition twice adds to the workload – first in its expansion to 32 teams and ...
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Puma continues major marketing offensive during Euro and Copa
With the second chapter of its first global brand campaign in 10 years, “Forever. Faster. - See The Game Like We Do”, Puma is launching two offshoots of the campaign this summer during UEFA Euro 2024 and the Copa América 2024, in which the company tells the story of its ...
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Macron announces new partnership deals and renewals
Macron, the team wear and sportswear brand headquartered in Bologna, Italy, has announced a series of new and renewed agreements with clubs across Europe. Starting next season, Macron will be the new technical sponsor of FK Austria Wien, the most successful club in Austrian football history. Austria Wien was officially ...