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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Exploring Media, Sponsorship, Kit Suppliers, Team Profiles, Revenue, and Social Media
Explore the commercial landscape of the Women's Euros 2025 with the "Business of Women's Euros 2025" report. Delve into media and sponsorship rights worth millions, with Nike and adidas leading kit deals. Discover key market insights, team profiles, and social media stats. Elevate your knowledge! Dublin, Aug. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "The Business of Women's European Championships 2025" report has been added to report takes a deep dive into the continental competition for women's soccer in the Europe. The report explores the biggest rights across the competition, specifically looking at the main media and sponsorship rights attached to Euro 2025, as well the main sponsorship rights and annual values of the 16 competing teams. The report also looks at market viewership, profiles individual teams and offers social media following comparisons against teams, other soccer rights revenue worth $99.54 million for the tournament. Euro 2025 linked to 20 active sponsors. Nike and adidas the most prominent kit suppliers, linked to six deals each. Key Highlights Overview of the media rights landscape Global media and sponsor partners explored Breakdown of the sponsorship deals including annual values Individual team profiles Team market comparison by sponsorship Connected social media followers Scope The main aims of this report is to highlight commercial landscape across Euro 2025. The report aims to break down the key commercial revenue streams for the tournament and its affiliated teams. It goes into detail on the key partnerships including its kit deals, its main broadcasters and front-of-shirt partnerships. Reasons to Buy Euro 2025 is the premier soccer competition in the world of women's soccer and comprises some of the biggest teams in the world. The commercial value and overall popularity of the tournament are growing at a strong rate as more brands and fans invest time and money into women's sport. Key Topics Covered: 1. Overview2. Media Landscape3. Tournament Sponsorship Landscape4. Kit Supplier Landscape5. Team Sponsorship Overview6. Team Profiles7. Additional Revenue & Information8. Social Media9. AppendixData Tables Global broadcasters England Euro 2022 viewership Ticket revenue Prize money Club representation For more information about this report visit About is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. We provide you with the latest data on international and regional markets, key industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. CONTACT: CONTACT: Laura Wood,Senior Press Manager press@ For E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470 For U.S./ CAN Toll Free Call 1-800-526-8630 For GMT Office Hours Call +353-1-416-8900Effettua l'accesso per consultare il tuo portafoglio
BBC News
01-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Ulster Rugby: Kingspan Stadium in Belfast will have a new name soon
The home of Ulster Rugby in Belfast will no longer be called the Kingspan 11-year deal with the Irish firm ran out at the end of June and a new sponsor has been Rugby say they will reveal the new name of the stadium "over the coming weeks".Ulster's commercial relationship with Cavan-based Kingspan was criticised by the government. They previously called for Ulster Rugby to reconsider its association with the firm over its link to the Grenfell Tower was announced last year that the long-running commercial relationship would end in June Rugby confirmed on Tuesday on its website that it had "started a removal process of the Kingspan branding within and around the stadium, having now concluded the sponsorship".It added: "In conjunction with our new partner, we will be making an announcement over the coming weeks."There is extensive Kingspan branding at the stadium, previously known as Tuesday evening, the name was still above the turnstiles and at the side of the main stand. Road signs showing directions to 'Kingspan Stadium' were also in place. Grenfell fire Seventy-two people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London in an inquiry, Kingspan's business practices were the company said its products made up only 5% of the insulation at Grenfell and were used without its has been a sponsor of Ulster for more than 20 years. The naming rights deal dates back to 2014. The firm has also had its name on the team a disappointing 2024-2025 season, Ulster are preparing for next season with their first league match at the newly-named stadium due to take place on 26 September against the Welsh side Dragons RFC.
The Guardian
01-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Cristiano Ronaldo's £492m Saudi deal: two cynical regimes form a strategic alliance
The winners of next season's AFC Champions League Two, Asia's second-tier club competition, will receive about £1.8m. The winners of the Saudi King's Cup will receive just over £1m. Prize money for the Saudi Pro League is not disclosed, but by the most recent available figures (for 2022-23) is in roughly the same area. Weekly attendances at the King Saud University Stadium, where top-tier ticket prices start at about £12, range between 10,000 and 25,000, although of course you also have to factor in pie and programme sales above that. And so you really have to applaud Al-Nassr's ambition in handing an estimated £492m to Cristiano Ronaldo over the next two years. Even if they sweep the board at domestic level, if they fight their way past Istiklol of Tajikistan's 1xBet Higher League and Al-Wehdat of the Jordanian Pro League, if they extract maximum value from merch and sponsorships, you still struggle to see how they can cover a basic salary that comes to £488,000 a day, even before the bonuses and blandishments that will push the total package well beyond that. According to reports, the deal also involves Ronaldo taking a 15% ownership stake in Al-Nassr, extra incentives for winning the Pro League or the Golden Boot, a private jet allowance, 16 full-time staff including two chefs and three gardeners, and a bonus for every time he successfully presses an opposition player. Last one was a joke, obvs. And amid the stultifying assault of numbers, Ronaldo's new contract – announced to great fanfare last week – marks a significant shift in the evolution of the superstar athlete, a further blurring of the lines between what we used to call 'sport' and what we used to call 'the other stuff'. The first question to put: what exactly is Saudi Arabia getting for its money? Because of course Al-Nassr are a majority fund-owned club, an arm of the Saudi state, which is funnelling untold riches into its domestic league free from the encumbrance of cost controls or financial fair play rules. Ronaldo himself is in effect a Saudi employee, albeit one who has enjoyed much better fortune then most migrant workers who have entered the country in recent years. On the pitch, Ronaldo's influence has been highly visible: 99 goals in 111 games under four coaches. Give him a half-chance in a tight space and even at the age of 40, there are still few players you would back over him. At the same time Al-Nassr have won no major trophies since his arrival and the club's two other big attacking talents, Jhon Durán and Sadio Mané, have found themselves overshadowed to such an extent that both may leave this summer. Let's charitably describe this one as: jury out. In recent months there was talk of Ronaldo getting a short-term deal to play in the Club World Cup, a competition that would seem perfect for him: based entirely around celebrity power, influencer fame and a distinct lack of running. Politically and commercially, there was literally no reason for this not to happen. And so we can conclude that while many clubs were interested in his star wattage, none were prepared to pay the going rate to remould their entire system around a 40-year-old striker who lost his last half-yard of pace in about 2017. But of course these days what Ronaldo can do on a football pitch is but a fraction of his total appeal. In an age when power itself is being reimagined along the lines of social media clout, when the attention economy and the actual economy are rapidly converging into one and the same thing, the fact Ronaldo is the most followed person on Instagram – and the third-most followed on X behind Elon Musk and Barack Obama – matters. In a way Ronaldo's fame renders him a kind of one-man city state, an influencer first and an athlete second, his goals and assists entirely tangential to the eyeballs he can garner in the process. What we have, in essence, is the professional athlete reimagined as a kind of plutocratic demigod, able to construct entire new realities around themselves. One in which the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia will be 'the most beautiful ever', or where the Saudi Pro League is 'one of the top five leagues in the world', as he recently put it. 'It's highly competitive, and those who don't know that simply haven't played here.' Fundamentally, this is not true on any measure: Opta ranks the Saudi Pro League as the world's 29th best. And of course by his own criteria, Ronaldo would have had to play in all the others in order to make a reasoned assessment. But when you have 659 million Instagram followers, perhaps whatever you say becomes true simply by saying it. Which is not to say the football is an irrelevance. Football is clearly still inherent to Ronaldo's self-image, albeit these days more as an adjunct to his power than as the source of it. Ronaldo still plays football in the same way that Donald Trump plays golf: as part of a broader cult of personality, something to get photographed doing, content for the feed. A branding exercise stripped entirely of context or objective judgment, complete with massaged numbers and a coterie of obedient applauding acolytes. As is the continuing fixation on his physique, the positioning of Ronaldo as a kind of Übermensch, a transcendent individual, a higher form of biology, albeit one that still possesses an unerring ability to put free-kicks straight into the wall. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion And so Al-Nassr (and to a lesser extent the Portuguese national team) are no longer paying for Ronaldo the footballer. What they're buying is Ronaldo the spiritual leader, the attention machine, the aura, the abdominals, the soft-power influence. They're buying a place on his grid, the opportunity to allow one of the world's most famous men to do their bidding. Perhaps it helps to think of his new contract as a kind of trade deal, a strategic alliance between two cynical regimes drunk on their own power and with largely congruent social views. 'I belong to Saudi Arabia,' Ronaldo stated proudly on announcing his new contract last week. And of course many star athletes in many sports have succumbed to the lure of the Saudi riyal, and will continue to do so. But there is a tonal difference between taking the money of a rogue state and actively advocating for them on the broadest possible stage. For years we have spoken of Saudi investment as a kind of moral dilemma, a fine balance of pecuniary motives, reputational concerns and human rights. For Ronaldo, it is clear that no such dilemma exists.
Edinburgh Reporter
29-06-2025
- General
- Edinburgh Reporter
Reset supporting refugees in Edinburgh
A warm welcome, the Scottish way – powered by people like us. In a quiet corner of Fountainbridge, one Edinburgh family is thriving — going to school, making friends, playing football in the park. Just a few years ago, they arrived in the UK through the Community Sponsorship scheme, a national programme that empowers local people to take the lead in resettling refugees. Now, the grassroots group that welcomed them, Edinburgh Refugee Sponsorship Circle, is breaking new ground again. Faced with the news that the family's rented flat was being sold, the group decided not to let instability undo years of community-building. Instead, they've launched a radical new housing project — purchasing the property themselves through a community-led trust, ensuring the family can stay rooted in the neighbourhood they now call home. 'We knew what losing that flat would mean for the family — and we were really motivated to create an alternative path, not just for them, but hopefully for others too,' says Fae, one of ERSC's founding volunteers. Community Sponsorship is a UK-wide scheme that enables everyday people — faith groups, book clubs, neighbours, colleagues — to come together and welcome a refugee family to their area. With support from Reset the UK's national charity for Community Sponsorship, groups like ERSC receive training, guidance and peer support to walk alongside families as they rebuild their lives. ERSC's model is particularly inspiring because it shows what's possible when ordinary people take bold, practical steps — even in the middle of a housing emergency. They remain entirely volunteer-run, powered by shared values and a belief that welcome should last longer than a warm hello at the airport. Now they're inviting others to get involved. Whether you want to join or form a sponsorship group, contribute to their housing trust, or simply learn more, ERSC is showing Edinburgh what solidarity looks like in action. Because welcome isn't abstract. It's about homes, schools, neighbours — and people like you. ➡ Learn more or support the project: ➡ Interested in Community Sponsorship? We've just launched a new online introduction – find out more ADVERTORIAL FEATURE Like this: Like Related
South China Morning Post
07-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Lack of cash could see Hong Kong drop out as hosts of fencing World Cup
Hong Kong could be forced to withdraw as hosts of the FIE Women's Foil World Cup next year because of a lack of sponsors, sources have told the Post. Advertisement The three-day tournament, featuring individual and team events like this year's edition at AsiaWorld-Expo, is scheduled to run from January 9 to 11. However, securing financial backing has proved difficult in the current economic climate. 'We were awarded the rights by FIE but securing sponsors would be crucial and given the current economic environment, it's highly likely that we might not be able to get one,' a source said. 'It would be great if we could do it, but that being said, there are other priorities. 'First it's the National Games, then there is the FIE Junior Men's and Women's Epee World Cup, and there's also the all-important World Championships next July. The World Cup was the last thing to worry about.' Hong Kong's Kuan Yu-ching (right) against Ukraine's Anna Tarankeno. Photo: Dickson Lee Fencing at the National Games will run from November 15 to 20 at Kai Tak Arena, followed by the Junior Epee World Cup at AsiaWorld-Expo from November 28 to 30.
