FC Barcelona announced the signing of a new multi-year contract with Nike, extending a collaboration that has lasted since 1998.
In the pipeline for several months, the new contract between FC Barcelona and Nike has been signed. The Catalan club announced on Saturday, November 9, the signing of a “new sponsorship agreement for several years which will come into force from this season”. No figures are officially communicated, but the Catalan press has been responsible for revealing several.
127 million euros per year on average
According to Mundo Deportivo, this new agreement is divided into two parts: first from 2024 to 2028, then over the period 2028-2038. A signing bonus of 158 million euros has reportedly been agreed, with payment spread throughout this 14-year partnership.
Taking into account the payments of this bonus and the basic payments of the contract, Barça would receive on average 127 million euros per year. Which makes a total of 1.7 billion euros until 2038.
Additional details are provided by Sport. Compared to the previous agreement, signed in 2018 with Nike, FC Barcelona would receive 45 million euros more each season until 2028, then 60 million by 2038.
In competition with Real Madrid
The Blaugrana team has been equipped by Nike since 1998. In 2018, a ten-year contract was signed under the management of Josep Maria Bartomeu. The local press then mentioned a minimum of 150 million euros per season. An amount which was apparently inflated by the sale of shares in the subsidiary Barça Licensing and Merchandising, in charge of the commercial exploitation of the club’s licenses.
The biggest equipment supplier contract for a football club would bring in at least 120 million euros per year for Real Madrid, linked to Adidas until 2028. Manchester United would be third in this ranking, at 105 million euros per year. year with Adidas.
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