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MasterCard renews Champions League sponsorship

MasterCard agreed a new deal with Uefa to continue its sponsorship of the Champions league for the 2009 to 2012 cycle.

MasterCard agreed a new deal with Uefa to continue its sponsorship of the Champions league for the 2009 to 2012 cycle.

MasterCard will continue to be the exclusive ‘payments systems’ category sponsor of the Champions League and the Super Cup competitions taking place in the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. MasterCard is the fourth official partner of the competitions signed for the period, after Heineken, Sony and UniCredit.

The deal was brokered by TEAM Marketing AG, which markets the commercial rights of the competitions on behalf of Uefa.