UEFA (Union of European Football Associations)

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Ecommerce

Uefa’s change in digital strategy has been key to new partnerships with Alipay, Expedia and Bookings.com, Guillaume Sabran, head of sponsorship and licensing, Uefa told delegates at the Sports Decision Makers Summit in London.
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Sports Authority

Uefa, European football’s governing body, is yet to finalise sponsorship plans for its newly-launched OTT platform, Uefa.t
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Sporting Apparel

Italian sportswear brand Macron has signed a new referee kit partnership with Uefa. Under the deal, Macron will provide referee uniforms for all Uefa competitions for the next three years, until 2022
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Supporters of Champion League finalists Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur have urged sponsors of the competition to give up their tickets so that more fans can attend the final
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US logistics brand FedEx Express has signed a major new partnership with Uefa to sponsor national-team football
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Financial Services

Global payments firm Visa has signed a landmark seven-year women’s football deal with Uefa.
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Sporting Apparel

Spanish LaLiga football club Valencia has been charged by European governing body Uefa with a breach of its kit regulations following its Champions League game at Manchester United
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Video Games

Despite an anticipated 35-per-cent uplift in the value of its Champions League and Europa League commercial revenue from 2018-19 to 2020-21, two brands will pay less for their rights in the next cycle.

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Banking

Spanish banking group Santander has become an Official Sponsor of the Uefa Champions League for the three seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21.

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Following the third Leaders Generation XX Series Think Tank on ‘Changing the Game in Women’s Sport’ in London yesterday, Uefa’s marketing chief Peter Willems responded to key question put by Sports Sponsor…
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Beer

Premium beer group Heineken has extended its partnership with Uefa’s elite club competitions, through its Heineken and Amstel brands, in what is understood to be a record sponsorship fee for European football’s governing body.

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The Euro 2016 final between hosts France and the eventual champions Portugal delivered more than $20m (€18.4m) value for its sponsors across social media platforms, according to research carried out by London-based visual tracking and analytics start-up SnapRapid for Sports Sponsorship Insider.

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Beer

At the invitation of Danish beer brand Carlsberg the Official Beer of Euro 2016 and its PR agency Fuse Sport + Entertainment, Sports Sponsorship Insider experienced the brand’s activation strategy first hand in the lead-up to the quarter-final game between France and Iceland at the Stade de France.

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Danish beer brand Carlsberg has been the Official Beer of the European Championships since 1988. Below, Richard Whitty, senior marketing manager for football at Carlsberg, explains its brand positioning as 'the beer of football' and the activation challenges for this year's tournament.

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Tyres

Korean tyre company Hankook aims to increase brand awareness and brand image as a premium tyre supplier in Europe through sponsorship activities that are integral to the company’s marketing strategy in the region.

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Countries from five of Europe’s six largest economies make up the top five most-valuable national team sponsorship programmes at Euro 2016, when measured by combined kit deal and main partner income.

With the European Championship in France set to dominate the sporting and sponsorship agenda for the next  four weeks, Sports Sponsorship Insider asked Tyson Henly, international head of football at PRISM, the WPP-owned PR and sports marketing agency, about the activation and ROI prospects for the tournament's sponsors.