All Football articles – Page 2
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News briefsNew £30 million fund to support grassroots women’s football in the UK
The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport and The Football Association (FA) have announced a £30 million (€35m) fund for grassroots football in England. The Government is providing £25 million (€29.2m) in funding while The FA is contributing £5 million (€5.8m). The fund was inspired by England’s women’s national ...
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News briefsAdidas teams up with Bugatti for football boot release with a twist
Bugatti and Adidas have come together to create a limited edition football boot – and a release with a twist. The Adidas X Crazyfast Bugatti will be auctioned through the Adidas Collect Web 3 platform, and successful bidders will receive both a physical pair and a digital twin. The Adidas ...
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News briefsLionel Messi is the world’s most marketable athlete for 2023
Lionel Messi tops SportsPro’s annual list of the world’s 50 Most Marketable Athletes (50MM) for a second time. The Argentinean footballer, who currently plays for Inter Miami, finished ahead of National Basketball Association (NBA) star LeBron James. Football player Alexandra (Alex) Morgan ranked third, followed in the top 10 by ...
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ArticleFrance’s Ligue 1 eyeing the US
Ligue 1, the top football league in France, could be mulling over regular-season matches in the US, according to Front Office Sports. The league receives an annual $85 million for the foreign broadcast rights of its matches, but that contract (with BeIN Sports) is coming to an end. The league ...
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News briefsFootball thrives in Spain
Though it has long been the country’s “king sport,” football continues to expand in Spain. Citing figures put together by the market-analysis firm Circana (now part of NPD Sports Tracking Europe), Diffusion Sport relates year-on-year double-digit rises in both sales and units moved for football apparel and shoes for the ...
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News briefsSkechers football boots now available
Source: Skechers Skechers SKX_01 In recent weeks, fans around the world have watched Harry Kane on the pitch, scoring multiple goals for his new club Bayern Munich while wearing Skechers football boots. Now Skechers has launched the boots, for which Kane is an ambassador, in stores in ...
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News briefsAdidas presents fashion-forward LFSTLR collection
Source: Adidas Supporting the growing Blokecore fashion trend, Adidas has unveiled its new LFSTLR jersey collection featuring the third jerseys of the 23/24 season from some of its leading clubs, reinterpreted as fashion-forward lifestyle streetwear. LFSTLR, the “most wearable soccer jersey,” blurs the lines between soccer performance ...
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News briefsSports Direct working to improve female representation in football
Sports Direct is launching an “Equal View” campaign, which seeks to improve the representation of football fans and grassroots football following the success of this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. The retailer, owned by parent company Frasers Group, has worked with Getty Images to create a free bank of ...
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Infographics & DataFIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in numbers
How many goals? How many fouls? How many sponsors? How much revenue? Our latest infographic has all the numbers from the FIFA Women’s World Cup ’23
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News briefsSkechers launches football range with Harry Kane as new brand ambassador
Captain of the England national football team Harry Kane, who recently signed to FC Bayern Munich, has entered a long-term partnership with Skechers that extends beyond the pitch. Kane will be at the forefront of the brand’s first football boots, launching in the UK and Europe in September, and will ...
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News briefsNike criticized for replica shirt decision
The FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 has just begun but English fans cannot purchase the replica shirt worn by their team’s goalkeeper, Mary Earps. According to the Daily Mail, Nike’s decision not to sell goalkeeper shirts is part of the company’s commercial strategy, although Earps pointed ...
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ArticleAdidas welcomes Messi to Miami, expands youth football initiatives
On July 19, Adidas welcomed Lionel Messi to Miami, celebrating the Argentine star’s arrival in North America ahead of his first game for Inter Miami CF on July 21. A number of Adidas-branded vehicles, including a cargo ship, boats and helicopters, passed through the Port of Miami and were dressed ...
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News briefsFootball equipment market to grow 2.59% CAGR by 2027, propelled by eco-friendly products
The football equipment market is estimated to grow by $2,021.66 million from 2022 to 2027, representing a compound annual growth rate of 2.59 percent during the forecast period, according to a recent research report by Technavio. Europe, which accounted for the largest share of the global market in 2022, is ...
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News briefsAdidas and Prada launch first joint football boot collection
Adidas and Prada have unveiled their first joint collection of football boots. The Adidas Football for Prada collection for men and women combines Prada’s sophisticated codes and materials with Adidas’ performance football technologies. The collection reimagines three Adidas products – the Predator Accuracy, Copa Pure and X Crazyfast. The boots ...
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News briefsJill Scott to captain England at Charity Soccer Event
Soccer Aid, the charity event in aid of UNICEF, announced former England player Jill Scott will lead the England side in the world’s biggest charity football game – the first time a female player has skippered England. Scott will play alongside fellow Soccer Aid debutants, including former Lioness Karen Carney, ...
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News briefsGerman Football Association and Fanatics expand and extend their partnership
The Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFB) and sports e-commerce giant Fanatics have announced a long-term extension to their existing omnichannel retail partnership. The expanded and extended partnership, encompassing both UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, will see Fanatics retain exclusive global e-commerce rights with the DFB ...
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News briefsUnibet starts sponsoring amateur basketball in France
Kindred Group’s sportsbook brand Unibet has generalized the name of its sponsorship program in France from #AuCoeurDuFootball to #AuCoeurDuSport (literally “in the heart or core of sport”). This year, the program will be supplying kits and other equipment (worth about €2,500 per club) to some 400 amateur clubs – 100 ...
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News briefsGermany and France imagine a “year of sport” at latest meeting
A Franco-German Council of Ministers celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty in Paris on Jan 22 – a treaty of friendship between France and West Germany, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on Jan 22, 1963 at the Élysée Palace. The recent Council of ...
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News briefsAdidas presents its first collection for Italian national football team
As the new official partner of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and supplier of all Italian national teams (men’s, women’s, youth, futsal, beach soccer and e-sports), Adidas has now unveiled its first collection of products for the teams, created in collaboration with FIGC. Much of the collection’s design is inspired ...
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ArticleThe latest figures of Italian football
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has released its Integrated Report 2021, which provides the main figures of the sport in terms of social, economic and fiscal impact. Around 4.6 million people play football in the country, of which 1.4 are also FIGC-registered players. The game is extremely popular among adolescents, ...
