42 Football Teams With Sponsor Names - Update With 15 New Teams & Sponsors Industry
Jan 9, 2021, by Simon
- Sponsor Ties: Many football teams worldwide have close ties with sponsors, sometimes incorporating logos or having logos designed to resemble the company's brand.
- Industry Investment: Various industries, including banking, insurance, electricity, and manufacturing, invest heavily in football, with some leagues endorsing these sponsor-named teams due to lack of other revenue.
- Sponsor Influence: Some companies build networks of clubs while others were founded as factory teams which in some cases has lead to teams being named after their sponsors.
Updated with a ton of football teams from all over the world that have very close ties with their main sponsor(s). It varies from case to case how close these ties are, some companies want to incorporate their logo in the club's logo, others do not and there are also companies that design the club's logo along the lines of the company's logo.
Additionally, we added the branch of industry these companies come from to provide more background info on who openly invests into football. What is even more interesting is the fact that some leagues endorse these teams with sponsor names since other income streams are not viable enough to compete at the highest level.
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factory football clubs, Red Bull empire & Austrian Football Bundesliga
Cadbury Athletic F.C. - confectionery
CASHPOINT SCR Altach - game of luck
Club Deportivo Filanbanco - banking sector
Club Deportivo La Equidad Seguros S.A. - insurance company
Club Sport Emelec - electricity
FC Carl Zeiss Jena - imaging
FC Liefering - conglomerate
Flyeralarm Admira - printing
JEF United Chiba (JE = JR East (rail transport) & F = Furukawa Electric (electrical equipment))
Metropolitan Police F.C. - founded by police force of London, originally made up of policemen
MOL Fehérvár FC - oil and gas
Red Bull Bragantino - conglomerate
RZ Pellets Wolfsberger Athletiksport Club - wood pellets
Semen Padang FC - building materials
SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz - brewery
Sporting Cristal - brewery
spusu Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten - telecommunication
Team ThorenGruppen - private schools
TSV Prolactal Hartberg - dairy products
WSG Swarovski Tirol - fashion, crystal and jewelry
As we covered a few days ago Chinese teams will be forced to remove any affiliation to big sponsors in their names from 2021 to tackle the way football works in China. These clubs bring in old superstars from abroad for huge sums instead of banking on Chinese players, which is probably the reason for the Chinese government to intervene.
Although it might seem like this issue is exclusive to clubs from certain regions this is not the case: there are football clubs from Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America that implement their main sponsor into the team's name. Here is a list of teams that have the name of a company directly in their identity.
Current Teams Named After A Sponsor
There are even companies nowadays that buy several teams and build up a network of clubs that trade their players among themselves (Red Bull, City Football Group - affiliation not present in team names). Other examples are teams that were originally founded as factory football clubs and later became professional (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, PSV Eindhoven).
Airbus UK Broughton F.C. - aerospace, defence
Ashanti Gold SC - mining
Bayer 04 Leverkusen - life sciences, pharmaceuticals, chemicals
Bidvest Wits F.C. - conglomerate
Cruz Azul - building materials
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors - conglomerate
New York Red Bulls - conglomerate
NK Slaven Belupo - pharmaceutics
NT Realty Tai Po - real estate
OOH Lincoln L.F.C. - media
Philips Sport Vereniging - conglomerate
RB Leipzig - conglomerate
Red Bull Brasil - conglomerate
Red Bull Salzburg - conglomerate
SCG Muangthong United F.C. - building materials
Supersport United F.C. - television channel
Suwon Samsung Bluewings F.C. - conglomerate
SV Wacker Burghausen - chemicals
Technogroup Welshpool Town F.C. - IT service organisation
Ulsan Hyundai FC - conglomerate
Vauxhall Motors F.C. - automotive
Did we miss any teams with sponsor names? What do you think about companies investing heavily into football? Drop us a line below.
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The Reggina 26-27 home kit arrives in the club's traditional amaranto shade, decorated with an intricate geometric graphic on the front panel inspired by the ancient Roman Baths of Reggio Calabria. Givova's white logos sit on the chest and sleeves, matching the kit's clean numbering and completing an all-amaranto look with coordinating shorts and socks.
For the away strip, Givova delivers a predominantly white design accented by an amaranto collar, side panels, and sleeve trim. The front of the shirt features subtle vertical band patterns drawn from the ornate mosaics at the Roman Villa of Casignana, accompanied by a retro 1990s-style club badge. Completing the set, the goalkeeper kit stands out in vibrant green, adorned with claret details and a striking circular motif portraying Calabria's traditional apotropaic masks.
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The Stanno Go Ahead Eagles 26-27 third shirt is built around an off-white base with fine vertical pinstripes running down the front. The centerpiece of the design is a detailed historic cog ship illustration across the torso, celebrating the Hanseatic maritime history of Deventer. Rich forest green decorates the folded collar and sleeve cuffs, complemented by gold trim and "GAE" lettering embroidered on the collar insert. Sponsor logos and branding appear in a metallic copper-bronze shade, alongside a recolored green and gold club crest.
Matching off-white shorts with green side piping and socks featuring the club's eagle crest complete the full kit. The Go Ahead Eagles 2026-27 third kit is available to purchase immediately through the club's official online store.
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The landmark partnership represents the most lucrative commercial deal in the history of the tournament. Participating clubs from League One and League Two, alongside invited Category One academy sides, will benefit from boosted prize money, starting with an initial pool of around £900,000 this season. The agreement directly supports Jersey Mike's major expansion into the UK and Ireland, where the US brand plans to roll out up to 400 store locations.
This move adds yet another chapter to the competition's long lineage of commercial title sponsors. Most recently titled the Vertu Motors Trophy, the tournament has previously operated under numerous memorable names, including the Papa Johns Trophy, Checkatrade Trophy, Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and the nostalgic LDV Vans Trophy.
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