The Premier League is ready to finish a 25-year relationship with Nike and switch to a different model to provide their match balls.
Nike have a contract with England’s high flight till 2025, having equipped the league’s match balls because the 2000/01 season.
The US producer had the chance to increase a 25-year-long partnership however negotiations failed to achieve a constructive conclusion, based on The Athletic.
The Premier League have wasted no time find a brand new provider as they’ve reached an settlement with Puma, who will provide the league’s match balls from the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
Puma aren’t any strangers to supplying match balls as they at present present for Serie A and La Liga to not point out the English Soccer League, the place they use its Orbita ball.
Nike will proceed supplying match balls for the Premier League for the subsequent two seasons till the Puma deal kicks in.
Final season, the Nike Flight – billed as a ‘decision in aerodynamics’ – was used. The brand new model of the ball can be used for the primary time within the 2023/24 season.
The brand new ball can be on present for the opening sport of subsequent season when Vincent Kompany’s Burnley entertain title holders Manchester Metropolis on August 11.
Nike have additionally equipped kits for Premier League officers, with referees and linesmen/lineswoman carrying Nike-branded shirts.
Additionally they present equipment and tools for the Premier League’s youth growth and worldwide occasions.
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