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Adidas partners with the Saudi Arabian Football Federation
The Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) has announced the signing in Doha of a new partnership contract with Adidas. From March 2023 and until 2026, the German sportswear brand will be the exclusive supplier of all training and match clothes for the Saudi national football teams. SAFF currently has an ...
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FIFA’s new report highlights further growth of elite women’s football
FIFA has released the second edition of Setting the Pace, a benchmarking report that provides a comprehensive analysis of the elite women’s football landscape globally. The first edition was released in May 2021. The new report, compiled with the support of Deloitte, reveals further growth and development in several areas. ...
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Reusch goes museum: Part of “Football: Designing the beautiful game” in London
Source: Felix Speller George Best’s worn boots For the first time, the exhibition “Football: Designing the beautiful game” was on display at the Design Museum in London from April to August 2022. The goal of this exhibition was to look at football from a different perspective and ...
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Crypto.com, Byju’s and Co: The sponsors and partners of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
For the World Cup in Qatar at the end of 2022, FIFA has designated seven official sponsors. Among them is Crypto.com, the cryptocurrency platform. We have an overview of all sponsors. FIFA has announced two tech companies, Crypto.com and Byju’s, as new sponsors for the World Cup in Qatar. The others are Budweiser, HiSense, McDonald’s, Vivo and Mengniuir. In addition to the seven sponsors for the World Cup, FIFA has six long-term partners.
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Spotify to be FC Barcelona’s new main partner
With the start of the 2022/2023 season this summer, the music streaming service Spotify will become FC Barcelona’s new main sponsor, replacing Rakuten. The contract is initially effective for four seasons and includes jersey sponsorship for the men’s and women’s teams as well as naming rights for the stadium. As ...
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Italy focuses on bid to stage UEFA Euro 2032
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has announced plans to host the UEFA Euro 2032. Italy, the winner of the 2021 tournament, had considered a bid for Euro 2028, but FIGC’s president Gabriele Gravina said a proposal to host the tournament in 2032 would allow more time to modernize stadiums across ...
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Adidas introduces the X Speedflow football boot
Adidas is launching the X Speedflow, a football boot that is said to “redefine speed” in the game. In 2020, the company launched the X Ghosted, developing a light-weight boot that would reflect today’s fast football. Adidas’ product creation team got feedback from both athletes and amateurs on how that ...
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English soccer to boycott social media over “abuse”
Various British football associations will be boycotting the social media networks for the U.K.’s bank holiday from April 30 to May 3. The reason, as their common statement reads, is the “ongoing and sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and many others connected to football.” The announcement was made ...
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Hyperice signs endorsement deals with U.S. Soccer, new golfers
U.S. Soccer has made Hyperice its “official recovery technology partner” for the next several years. Hyperice has been working with U.S. Soccer since 2013, but this is the federation’s first sponsorship deal with the producer of a therapeutic device: in this case, for vibration, percussion and thermal treatments. Negotiated through ...
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Brands and values in Italy's Serie A technical sponsorship deals
The technical sponsorship market in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league, is worth a combined €118.6 million, according to an assessment by Sporteconomy.it. The figure, which does not include commercial sponsorships, was calculated based on the deals between the different Serie A clubs and the nine ...
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Adidas founds the Football Collective
Adidas has launched the Football Collective in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. A form of federation of local individuals and clubs, the Football Collective intends to foster social changes through football. It will be working with local initiatives already set up under the Adidas Football Collective ...
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Trends in football sponsorship
The total value of sponsorship across the top five leagues in 2020 stands at more than €3.3 billion, according to KPMG Football Benchmark. The report takes into account partnerships across England’s Premier League, Germany’s Bundesliga, La Liga in Spain, Italy’s Serie A and Ligue 1 in France. Regarding where the ...
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Adidas and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) have extended their...
Adidas and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) have extended their long-standing partnership. Adidas will continue to be the FMF's official supplier through the 2026 Fifa World Cup, which will be played in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. The original deal between Adidas and the FMF ran from 1984 to 1990. ...
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Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football...
Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football team (DFB), of which it has been the sponsor for a long time. The DFB will be training for the 2020 European Football Championship (Uefa Euro 2020) at World of Sports, Adidas' headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Preceding the announcement was a ...
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Adidas and Nike back women’s football
Adidas has signed up as a founding partner of United for Girls, a new initiative from the U.S. Soccer Foundation aimed at increasing opportunities for girls and women from underserved communities to play football. Adidas' participation in United for Girls is part of the brand's “She Breaks Barriers” initiative to ...
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Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football...
Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football boot with three limited-edition boots and a commercial featuring Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham
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Adidas has signed multi-year sponsorships with two American football players...
Adidas has signed multi-year sponsorships with two American football players at the top-tier university level: Marquise “Hollywood” Brown of Oklahoma and Hakeem Butler of Iowa State. Both play the position of wide receiver. Butler recently debuted this year's Adizero 40 cleats and Adizero 8.0 cleats during on-field workouts and 40-yard dash trials in ...
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>Macron has become the technical sponsor of a German football...
>Macron has become the technical sponsor of a German football team, Karlsruher SC, taking the place of
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Adidas has extended its sponsorship agreement with the Scottish Football...
Adidas has extended its sponsorship agreement with the Scottish Football Association through 2022
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Adidas has launched the Tango app for the football community,...
Adidas has launched the Tango app for the football community, and as a rallying point for participants in the Tango League, a grassroots football competition. The group said that the app became available on Sept. 3 in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France and Spain, to help football enthusiasts ...