Football Sponsorship By Numbers

Some interesting figured from the Independent relating to Football sponsorship deals.

Manchester United
Main sponsor: AIG (Insurance)
Cost per annum: £14.125m
Kit supplier: Nike

The AIG deal is worth £56.5m over four years, Nike paid the club £303m for licensing rights, and Budweiser is the club's official beer. Still no word on why former Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Lee Daley, lasted only four months as commercial director last year.

Chelsea
Main sponsor: Samsung (Electronics)
Cost per annum: £10m
Kit supplier: Adidas

Football sponsorship is a key battleground in the ultra competitive consumer electronics market. South Korean giant Samsung grabbed the Chelsea shirt after they lost out to Sony for Uefa Champions League and Fifa World Cup rights. As an IOC partner Samsung also sponsored the Olympic torch relay around the world, escorted by the controversial men in blue suits.

Liverpool
Main sponsor: Carlsberg (Brewing)
Cost per annum: £7m
Kit supplier: Adidas

Carlsberg's 15-year commitment is the longest commercial relationship in British football, but the club may seek a shirt and naming rights deal to fund their long-awaited new stadium, which may test the brewers resolve. Last year, striker Fernando Torres sold more shirts than any player in the Premier League, not including those carrying his own El Niño brand.

Newcastle United
Main sponsor: Northern Rock (Finance)
Cost per annum: £5m
Kit supplier: Adidas

The nationalisation of Northern Rock means Kevin Keegan's team is partly funded by the taxpayer despite being owned by billionaire retailer Mike Ashley. Calls to end the relationship have fallen on deaf ears: "I believe it is in the commercial interest of the bank that we should continue," said N. Rock.

Arsenal
Main sponsor: Emirates (Airline)
Cost per annum: £5m
Kit supplier: Nike

Arsene Wenger has transformed "boring Arsenal" into one of the most aspirational brands in football, but his antipathy to summer tours means the club won't be "taking the live experience" to America or the Far East soon, despite the chance of free Emirates flights. Back home, the Emirates stadium has become a London landmark.

Tottenham Hotspur
Main sponsor: Mansion.com (Casino and Poker)
Cost per annum: £5m
Kit supplier: Puma

Spurs were the second choice for Mansion, which came close to a deal with Manchester United. The sponsor accused United of "double-dealing", while the club said concerns over the gambling and casino link turned them off.

Aston Villa
Main sponsor: Acorns (Children's Hospice)
Cost per annum: Free
Kit supplier: Nike

Randy Lerner, Villa's American owner, has taken a leaf out of Barcelona's tie-up with Unicef, Villa gave their shirt free to a local children's hospice, costing the club around £5m a year in revenue.

Everton
Main sponsor: Chang (Brewing)
Cost per annum: £2.6m
Kit supplier: Umbro

Chang is part of the ThaiBev brewing giant and the deal is testimony to the Premier League's international TV reach. Alcohol sponsorship of sport is set to come under renewed pressure as the government acts on binge drinking – acting on advice from the Portman Group, the brand has chosen to remove its logo from children's shirts.

Manchester City
Main sponsor: Thomas Cook
Cost per annum: £1m
Kit supplier: Le Coq Sportif

No Ronaldinho to sell the City shirt as the Brazilian star chose Milan, and fans and sponsors will take little consolation that his new club played in the Thomas Cook Cup, a pre-season tournament. Thomas Cook is into its sixth year as sponsor – and fans are four times as likely to book holidays with the firm.

Hull City
Main sponsor: Karoo (Internet Service Provider)
Cost per annum: £800,000
Kit supplier: Umbro

The newly promoted club hopes this year's shirt will fare better than a previous Tiger skin incarnation, which was voted worst ever football kit in a poll of readers of The Sun. Karoo is a local ISP owned by Kingston Communications, which is the monopoly web supplier for Hull.

Blackburn Rovers
Main sponsor: Crown Paints
Cost per annum: £1.5m
Kit supplier: Umbro

Manufacturing problems at Umbro's factory unfortunately meant the launch of the new shirt was delayed and the club took a hit in all important pre-season shirt sales. After an absence of over a decade, the Crown Paints logo comes back into football. The local brand was one of the first shirt sponsors and is synonymous with Liverpool in the Kenny Dalglish era.

West Ham United
Main sponsor: XL Holidays
Cost per annum: £1m
Kit supplier: Umbro

There are two views of the new away kit. The official line is that it recalls Hammers heroes such as Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Some fans see it differently: "It's a rip off of that crappy Seventies England shirt," wrote one blogger, "must've taken them about 10 minutes to think that one up, thanks for nothing!"

Portsmouth
Main sponsor: OKI (Printers)
Cost per annum: £800,000
Kit supplier: Canterbury

Last year's FA Cup win gave Japanese printer manufacturer OKI some welcome additional worldwide exposure. The club is supporting the OKI Street Arts Community initiative, encouraging school-aged children to get involved in the arts, and the company's PR agency Whiteoaks has been pushing the OKI Street Sixes, a youth football league, part of a Hampshire-based drive to reduce street crime.

Fulham
Main sponsor: LG (Electronics)
Cost per annum: £3m
Kit supplier: Nike

No one can say Mohamed Al Fayed lacks imagination when it comes to negotiating with sponsors. Bundled in to LG's deal is floor space at Mr Al Fayed-owned Harrods and the roof of Craven Cottage, which is positioned under the Heathrow flight path. The sponsor says that nothing should be read into the fact that the entire senior marketing team left the company shortly after the deal was signed.