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FIRST POLISH LEAGUE TITLE SPONSOR

The top Polish soccer league will be known as IDEA Ekstraklasa after a deal was agreed between Sportfive, marketer of the Polish Football Association, the league and its new sponsor.

IDEA is the mobile phone services provider of Poland's largest telecommunications company, Telekomunikacja Polska (TP S.A.).

Apart from the naming rights for the league, the agreement includes shirt and in-stadium advertising as well as promotional campaigns. The contract initially runs until the end of the 2008/2009 season.

It is the first time the league has had a title sponsor.

Telekomunikacja Polska has more than 11 million fixed network subscribers and almost six million mobile phone subscribers. The company's biggest shareholder is France Telecom.