Sponsors synonymous with your club

I was trying to think if I could remember Inter having a different shirt sponsor than Pirelli, and as far as I can remember Inter have been sponsored by them. I vaguely remember seeing photos a long time ago of Inter with Fiorucci on their shirts and an old friend of mine used to have a Inter kit with FitGar on it. Don't even know if it was the 90s or 80s

Going into next year still sponsored by Pirelli:

Pirelli is completely synonymous with Inter shirts. I can't even imagine any other sponsor being associated with them.

So what about your club? Which sponsor is your club most synonymous with?

With Liverpool it obviously has to be Carlsberg. I wish they'd offer us more money and come back
Our deal ran with them from 1992 till 2010. 18 year marriage.

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Nike for 13 years

Sharp was for a long time 1983 till 2000

Sharp/Man Utd is a good example

Samsung have been on Chelsea kits for a long time now and I'm pretty sure are signed on for a fair while longer too

Oil, Russians and dirty money.....Oh, you mean kit sponsors?

I also noticed the Pirelli one.

The links between Pirelli and Inter are personal. Marco Provera is the Chairman and CEO of Pirelli, and he is a member of Inter's board of directors. He is an Interista and has been his entire life. Provera and Moratti are friends, and if I recall correctly he used to own shares of Inter. I don't know if he still does under Thohir's reign.

Provera was Chairman of Telecom Italia for almost a decade, as well. He played a crucial role in the original Calciopoli case, as many of the phone intercepts that condemned Juventus were from TIM Mobile.   

Not my clubs, but Bayer Leverkusen should be pretty obvious. Same with VW, er VfL Wolfsburg - but then, these clubs were originally founded as company sport clubs, which is why they are the only clubs in the Bundesliga who are owned by companies. (That is, they weren't bought by a company, but the companies are the reason these clubs were founded in the first placed).

As for Bayern - they have a shirt deal with the Telekom for years now. On the plus side, the T on their shirt looks pretty decent. And of course they have the companies Adidas, Allianz and Audi who each hold around 9 percent of the shares of Bayern.

Madrid has been sponsored by adidas since 1980, but there was a gap between 1985 and 1998 where Hummel and Kelme were our kit manufacturers, So adidas only accounts for 16 years...

+5 (80-85) = 21

****ing love that kit on Torres.

Oh prime Torres...........

Arsenal will always be the Sega team to me

Qatar.

VendettaRed07 wrote:Arsenal will always be the Sega team to me

Weren't JVC your shirt sponsors for decades? I remember O2 during the invincible era and that was pretty awesome. But JVC is the one I always align Arsenal with.


Btw I don't mean kit manufacturer teamanarchy, just the main club sponsors that get their name in the shirt.

I never knew bayerns major sponsors owned shares
*bleep* hell I can only imagine what utd, arsenal erc would get if their sponsors got part ownership

Siemens and Galacticos comes to mind

I loved the Liverpool kits with Carlsberg.
It was a fantastic combination for football kits.

Anyway the Historical Inter sponsor was MISURA ( industry of food products) , it lasted a decade from  1982-83 to  1990-91 and it's the partnership sponsor - club who the old Inter fans remember with more love . Because it was the first long-lived sponsor and for some players . It was 2nd sponsor in Inter history, the first Inno Hit (1981-1982) lasted just a year..

Basically , Misura was also synonymous with Inter shirts as Pirelli now. Probably the old Interisti  hardly could imagine any other sponsor being associated with them as the Interisti of new generation think about Pirelli now.

The Inter with Misura coincided with the period of  "German Inter", probably also for this reason old Inter players remind with pleasure and  nostalgia those years, players  as  Rummenigge, Lothar Mattahus, Brehme, Klinsmann , wore this kit. Also the Inter badge was different

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after Misura , we had Fitgar, but it lasted just a year. The last year of Matthaus to Inter. Basically it is remembered just for this. Then after Fitgar, we had Fiorucci , from 1992-93 al 1994-1995.
The Inter kits with Fiorucci were  characterized from a blue much more clear and similar to sky- blue .
Inter- Fiorucci is reminded  basically for this sky blue (I 'd like to see again) and for Uefa Cup 1994. We won this cup with this kit .Main star during the Fiorucci era was Dennis Bergkamp

then we closed with Fiorucci in 1995, and from 95-96 new president Moratti and new sponsor : Pirelli.

And it still resists.

I'd prefer to change not only for  new thing, but expecially because we don't get so much money if compared to other clubs.

I saw other clubs had Pirelli too anyway , as Velez Sarsfield.

About other Italians club

the most solid liaison between Juve and a sponsor was with Ariston . Ariston has to do with household appliances

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and Roma ... even if I am not a Roma fan ,I must admitt they had the most fascinating link

Roma had the Barilla sponsor since 1980 to 1994

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Barilla = Pasta  .  Barilla is the main Italian pasta company.

I appreciated also Lazio with Cirio ( milk )  , other solid partnership

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and Parmalat ( milk too ) with Parma of course

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the partnership with Parmalat and Cirio lasted many years, it ended simply because the 2 companies went bankrupt.
and Lazio and Parma died , because the companies were of their presidents.

VendettaRed07 wrote:Arsenal will always be the Sega team to me

I always associate Arsenal to JVC

Sega was the sponsor for our gold third kit in the 2001/2002 season; the one we happened to win the league at Old Trafford in, so it's very memorable to Arsenal fans at least.

But yeah, we had JVC from 1981 to 2000. Dreamcast sponsered the 01/02 kit, then it was O2 from 2003 to 2006. It's been Fly Emirates from that point.

I actually loved how no sponsor name appeared on our shirt in the past.
This season we have to endure the ugly Qatar Airways on the front, Beko on the left sleeve, and Intel on the inside of the shirt.