P&O Cruises has entered right into a multi-year partnership with Southampton Soccer Membership because the membership’s official sleeve companion, in keeping with a press launch.
The P&O Cruises brand can be prominently displayed on the sleeves of the lads’s, ladies’s, and academy workforce jerseys.
Carnival UK & P&O Cruises president Paul Ludlow stated: “P&O Cruises is Britain’s favourite cruise line, with an extended historical past crusing from the port of Southampton. Southampton Soccer Membership is among the oldest and most forward-thinking golf equipment in English soccer, with a passionate and devoted following of supporters within the metropolis and past. It’s a pure partnership for each of us.
“With the workforce promoted to the Premier League there has by no means been a greater time to showcase our model to the nation however regardless of the outcomes we can be supporting the groups wholeheartedly all through the seasons.
This collaboration marks P&O Cruises’ first enterprise into sports activities sponsorship and can present unique advantages and experiences to P&O Cruises company and Southampton FC members and followers. Perks embody particular cruise gives, match tickets, meet-and-greet occasions and onboard teaching classes.
Ludlow continued: “We’re so happy to have the ability to assist the native and regional neighborhood by Saint’s Basis, a local people charity which goals to degree the enjoying subject in Southampton, working throughout well being, training, gender equality and employability. We stay up for making a longer-term wider partnership with Saints Basis and can announce extra particulars of this shortly.”
“We’re delighted to be the primary firm to sponsor the lads’s, ladies’s and Academy shirts to advertise range, equality and to encourage grassroots soccer and nurture new expertise.
“Investing in our homeport areas and within the communities during which we dwell and go to is vitally necessary to us and this partnership underpins our dedication to the area.”
With pre-season preparations underway for all Southampton FC groups, followers will first see the P&O Cruises brand on Southampton FC’s males’s First Group kits on the house pleasant match in opposition to Lazio on August 7, 2024, after which from the beginning of the Premier League season away to Newcastle United on August 17, 2024. The primary house league match is the next Saturday in opposition to Nottingham Forest at St Mary’s Stadium.
All followers who buy or have already bought any of the Southampton FC 2024-25 duplicate kits will be capable of go into the Southampton FC stadium retailer to have the P&O Cruises branding utilized to their shirts freed from cost, topic to availability from August 6, 2024.
Southampton FC followers will first see the P&O Cruises brand on the lads’s First Group kits in the course of the home-friendly match in opposition to Lazio on August 7, 2024, and within the Premier League season opener away to Newcastle United on August 17, 2024. The primary house league match is in opposition to Nottingham Forest on August 24, 2024, at St Mary’s Stadium. Followers who buy or have already bought 2024-25 duplicate kits can have the P&O Cruises branding utilized to their shirts totally free on the Southampton FC stadium retailer, beginning August 6, 2024, whereas provides final.
Southampton Soccer Membership CEO Phil Parsons stated: “We’re delighted to welcome P&O Cruises as our sleeve companion. This can be a historic partnership for us, working with P&O Cruises for the primary time.
“P&O Cruises is an organisation proper on the coronary heart in our metropolis, very like us. With customer support and local people central to its enterprise, its values are aligned to our personal. We stay up for what this partnership will deliver to our followers and the local people.”