By Chrysanthus Ikeh
Nike has emerged the new technical sponsor to the Nigeria Football Federation, supporting all the nation’s national teams at all levels, as well as engaging in grassroots development.
Nike and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced a new partnership in which Nike, the world’s leading football brand, would be designing and developing football kits for the nation’s male and female football teams from April 1, 2015, until at least, 2018.
Nike is designing performance and training apparel, and equipment, including team kits and footballs, for the Nigerian national football team players at all levels.
There will be an exclusive-edition team kit for all NFF teams until the 2016-17 kit launch slated for mid-2016. In addition, Nike will design an assortment of products for Nigerians to show their support for the national team, also to be made available from mid-2016.
The Nigeria Under-20 men’s team will be the first to don the new Nike kit at the Under-20 football tournament to be hosted in New Zealand from Sunday, May 31, 2015.
The partnership includes the following elements: Supplying performance and training kits to all nine of the Nigeria Football Federation teams at every level, including the men’s and women’s senior teams, men’s and women’s Under-20 teams, men’s and women’s under-17 teams, men’s and women’s Olympic teams, and the men’s beach football team.
Nigeria joins Nike’s portfolio of federation sponsorships, including Australia, Brasil, England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, and US among others.
