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Sport Sponsorship

This guide provides a framework for sports organisations in securing, developing and retaining commercial partnerships.

Key commercial elements are considered including commercial planning for sports organisations, understanding your brand in a changing market, how to minimise costs and maximise revenue streams. The sponsorship process is reviewed under the following headings:

  • Brand management
  • Product identification
  • Product development
  • Identifying the target sponsor market
  • Matching the product and sponsor
  • Selling the product
  • Servicing the sponsor

 Sport Sponsorship: Securing and retaining commercial partners (PDF)