{"id":884464,"date":"2026-09-08T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884464\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:10:09","slug":"liverpool-announce-five-year-shirt-sponsorship-deal-with-turkish-airlines-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884464\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool announce five-year shirt sponsorship deal with Turkish Airlines | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">The deal is reportedly worth more than $405m, which would place it among the most lucrative in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have \u200cagreed a five-year deal for Turkish Airlines to \u2060become their \u2060main club partner from June 1, 2027, which means the first change in the Anfield side\u2019s \u2060leading shirt sponsor since 2010, ending a 17-year run for Standard Chartered.<\/p>\n<p>The deal announced on Tuesday will \u2060be worth in excess of 300 million pounds ($405.78m) according to media reports, which would place it among the most lucrative in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>While the precise figures have not been \u200cconfirmed, it is likely to match the income from Manchester United\u2019s shirt sponsorship deal with Qualcomm, which was signed in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Chartered will remain affiliated with Liverpool as a Global Partner, said a club statement, but Turkish Airlines will take the primary position \u2060in Liverpool\u2019s branding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe front of the \u2060Liverpool shirt holds a special place in the history of our club,\u201d said Liverpool\u2019s chief commercial officer Ben Latty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkish Airlines is a globally \u2060recognised organisation with an extensive international network and we look forward to beginning \u2060our partnership and building a strong \u2060relationship together, with already strong foundations built from those special memories back in 2005,\u201d he added, referring to Liverpool\u2019s Champions League final comeback \u200cwin in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The deal adds to a growing sponsorship portfolio within football for Turkish Airlines, who are an \u200cofficial \u200cpartner of the Champions League and main sponsor of Turkiye\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Liverpool announced record revenues of more than 700 million pounds ($950m) for the most recent financial year, and were the highest-placed Premier League club in the Deloitte Football Money League.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool were the first major English professional football club to have a shirt sponsor, when Japanese electronics company Hitachi had its name displayed across the club\u2019s strip back in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal is reportedly worth more than $405m, which would place it among the most lucrative in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,6073,164,2057,596,12241,588,85,940,3586],"class_list":["post-884464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business-and-economy","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-middle-east","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-turkey","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}