In what comes as the primary main crypto sports activities sponsorship deal down below, the Australia Soccer League (AFL) has secured a partnership with Crypto.com to again its girls’s league (AFLW).
The deal is value near $25 million over the subsequent 5 years, a marked enhance from the AFL’s present $18.5 million sponsorship contract with Toyota. Crypto.com is a Singapore-based crypto trade providing digital wallets and crypto-backed debit playing cards.
The partnership will mark Crypto.com’s first time sponsoring an Australian sports activities workforce. It should even be its first time sponsoring an elite girls’s sports activities competitors worldwide, a milestone that AFL Government Normal Supervisor Buyer and Business Kylie Rogers stated she’s “proud” to be a part of.
“The AFL is proud to be the primary Australian sports activities league and elite girls’s competitors globally to work alongside a company that shares our ardour to progress the way forward for elite sport and expertise.”
Crypto.com normal supervisor Asia & Pacific Karl Mohan says that the corporate was attracted by Australia’s comparatively excessive variety of girls eager about crypto.
“Our newest shopper analysis in Australia discovered that greater than half (53%) of crypto buyers have been females,” he stated.
“It is extremely encouraging to see that Australians from all walks of life, no matter gender or background, are very eager to undertake cryptocurrencies, and we’re enthusiastic about being their go-to platform.”
Again in August, CNBC launched a survey that discovered that girls are nonetheless lower than half as prone to spend money on cryptocurrencies than males, with 16% of males investing vs 7% of girls.
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Crypto.com has amassed plenty of sports activities branding offers over the previous months, totaling over $1.5 billion. In mid-Nov, the crypto firm secured a $700 million deal to rename the Staples Middle in Los Angeles to the Crypto.com Area for the subsequent 20 years.
It additionally signed a $100-million sponsorship settlement with System 1 in late June and a $175 million sponsorship settlement with the UFC in July.