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Italian sportswear brand Kappa will pay between €5m ($5.6m) and €6m per season as the new kit supplier at French club AS Monaco.
Football
Gambling

Philippine betting brand LoveBet will pay between €2m and €2.5m per season to partner with French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Football

SportBusiness Sponsorship has conducted research into the top five leagues in European football, covering over two thousand deals. Our findings are presented in a series of interactive data reports
Football

Ligue 1’s biggest central deal, worth €9m per season, is its title sponsorship with Conforama.
Football
Restaurants

French club Girondins de Bordeaux aims to make a new ‘top five’ in Ligue 1 – both on and off the pitch – following the club’s takeover by American owners. This

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Tennis
Technology

Indian technology company Infosys has agreed a three-year deal with the French Tennis Federation to become the Digital Innovation Partner of Roland-Garros
Football
Telecommunications

French telco Orange has signed a new partnership with this year’s Fifa Women’s World Cup in France.
Cycling
Cars/Automotive

Japanese manufacturing brand Yamaha has signed a new partnership with the Tour de France and other leading cycling events staged by organiser Amaury Sport Organisation
Football
Sports Organisation

Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain recorded sponsorship revenue of €94.1m ($106.5m) in its 2018 financial year, down by 13 per cent on the €108.1m recorded the previous year.

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Football
Tyres

Japanese tyre brand Falken Tire has tripled its investment in European football clubs since the 2015-16 season in an ongoing brand awareness campaign that now comprises between 20 and 30 per cent of its…
Football
Cars/Automotive

The €18m ($20.7m) investment of India’s Balkrishna Industries (BKT) in this month’s deal to title sponsor France’s football league cup, the Coupe de la Ligue, followed its €7.5m invest
Cycling
Information Technology

A good sponsorship creates value for both parties
Football

he Fédération Française de Football will earn more than €100m ($116m) per season in sponsorship from the 2018-19 season, after a round of renewals and an adjustment of the sponsorship hierarchy to give…
Football
Telecommunications

Orange, the former state telco of France, this month agreed a deal to become a Main Partner of the Fédération Française de Football, the French football federation, for the next rights cycle. 

LG Electronics has dedicated a sports event sponsorship to its premium LG Signature brand for the first time, as an Official Partner of the Evian Championship, the fifth women’ s golf major, from 2017 t…
Football
Cars/Automotive

Home furnishings retail chain Conforama became the title sponsor of France’s top football league, Ligue 1, in a three-season deal, from 2017-18 to 2019-20, thought to be worth about €27m ($29.5m)
Motorsport
Airlines

Flag carrier Qatar Airways this month became the latest major company to sign a deal with Formula E – having decided that the series has reached critical mass and good level of credibility – as the brand bolsters its portfolio ahead of the end of its Barcelona shirt deal.

Rugby Union

For 2017, we have researched over 1,400 deals across 27 countries and covering 92 rights fees to map out the sponsorship landscape of rugby union.

Athletics

For 2017, we have researched over 800 deals, 41 sports and 11 selected markets to map out the sponsorship landscape of international federations and national governing bodies.

Tennis
Financial Services - Banking

Financial services company BNP Paribas has extended its Main Partner sponsorship of tennis’s French Open until 2021 for an increase but at a value below the French Tennis Federation’s (FFT) asking price.

Rugby Union
Construction

French construction equipment company Altrad has become the first brand to appear on the French rugby union national team shirt under a short-term agreement tied to the France 2023 Rugby World Cup bid.

Financial Services - Banking

Last month, Sports Sponsorship Insider compared sponsorship activity between the Paris 2024 bid and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF). Below is the full interview with Ludivine Roosebeke, head of sponsors, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Bid Committee.
Motorsport

Sweden-based clothing brand Gant has made a rare return to big-time international sports sponsorship as the Official Outfitter of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the highlight of the World Endurance Championship motorsports series.

Esports
Telecommunications

Multinational telecoms company Orange has title sponsored the French Football League’s (LFP) companion esports Fifa 17 competition to engage more fans with its football sponsorship activation platform Le 12eme homme (The 12th man) and promote its ‘Fiber’ broadband product.