Shirt sponsorship in the EPL

[johntheclaret]

Following on from C_P's post in the Lverpool thread, I checked out who sponsors who and for how much.

Liverpools deal worth £20m a year for 4 years puts them at the top of the league, followed by Man U with £14.5m with banckrupt US insurance giant AIG. Then comes Chelsea on £13m with Samsung.

Spurs makes up the bes of the rest with Mansion on £8.5m, then Arsenal and Man City with Emirates and Ethiad respectively on £5m. Burnley come in near the bottom with £400k from Cooke Oils (I know, not exactly a global power)

Aston Villa don't get a penny as they have decided to advertise Acorns, which is a xhildrens hospice, so hats off to the Villans for such a noble gesture, similarly to Barcelona who advertise UNICEF and don't make a peseta out of the deal.

There are two arab airlines, in Emirates and Ethiad. I can see the link with Ethiad and City, with thier new Arab owner but I'm not sure of any link between Arsenal and the arabs? Incidentally, I think Ethiad and Emirates are owned by the same paernt company.

Then there are the gambling sponsors who make up 7 of the EPL clubs with one (118Bet) sponsoring both Wigan and Bolton.. There are also two electronics sponsors in Samsung (Chelski) and LG (Fulham)

Something else I noticed was how the smaller clubs have local sponsors, Stoke (Nationwide Building Society, whose head office is in Stoke, i think), Burnley (Cooke Oils, whose office is in Burnley) and b4st4rds (Crown paints, who are based in Blackburn)

Finally, when Carlsbergs contract runs out with Liverpool, there will be only 1 brewing sponsor in the EPL, (Chang) with Everton. how times have changed.

[devilsadvocate]

Nice work JTC.

I find it quite surprising that the Clarets didn't attract a bigger deal from a bigger company. After their heroics in the CC last year, winning through via the playoffs, being such a minnow compared to the big boys and then following it all up by knocking off UTD (which got massive recognition world wide), you'd think a big company would throw a mil or so at them?

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has made a couple of trips to various destinations in the middle east trying to drum up interest in a sponsorship deal for Spurs new stadium and also a new deal for our strip. I would find it hilarious if an arab firm buys rights to both of these, then all the Spurs fans file in chanting 'YID ARMY'!!

[Bully]

yeah for as long as i can remember LFC have had carlsberg on their shirts

[johntheclaret]

For some reason Hollands, our previos sponsors, decided to pull out and Cookes stepped in. Perfect timing for them as the Clarets made it to the play off's and the rest is history