{"id":21407,"date":"2012-07-09T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21407"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:41:13","slug":"russias-gazprom-as-the-latest-official-partner-of-the-uefa-champions-league-21407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russias-gazprom-as-the-latest-official-partner-of-the-uefa-champions-league-21407\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Gazprom as the latest Official Partner of the UEFA Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21417\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gazprom-6598.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21417\" title=\"Official Partner of the UEFA Champions League\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gazprom-6598-280x197.jpg\" alt=\"Official Partner of the UEFA Champions League\" width=\"280\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gazprom-6598-280x197.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gazprom-6598-511x360.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gazprom-6598.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official Partner of the UEFA Champions League<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>UEFA Champions League has officially announced\u00a0that Russia\u2019s gas giant Gazprom has become an official partner of the UEFA Champions League football tournament through 2015.<\/h2>\n<p>It will be entitled to extensive and exclusive branding rights around the tournament, including world&#8217;s best known marks as Heineken, UniCredit, Ford, MasterCard and PlayStation manufacturers Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) in one of the most coveted sponsorship categories in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s state-run gas giant\u00a0Gazprom finally is an official partner of the UEFA Champions League and Uefa Super Cup for the\u00a0seasons 2012 to 2015 and the UEFA Super Cup 2012, 2013 and 2014\u00a0after agreeing a deal with Uefa marketing partner Team Marketing AG.<\/p>\n<p>The 3 year deal will see Gazprom\u2019s involvement with Europe\u2019s most prestigious club football competition through their exclusive services and products.<\/p>\n<h3>Gazprom to join as UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup sponsor<\/h3>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Gazprom, the largest extractor of natural gas in the world\u00a0becomes one of 6 sponsors of European club soccer&#8217;s elite competition until the end of the 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, said : &#8216;\u00a0Gazprom is not only the largest gas company in the world but is also one of those most passionate about football. We have a long history of supporting football clubs in Russia and Europe. Now we have joined the UEFA Champions League \u2013 the leading European club football competition. I am sure this cooperation will improve Gazprom\u2019s reputation and advance our brand awareness to a fundamentally new level on the global scale. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>As well as owning majority holdings in Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg and the Russian Premier League broadcaster NTV Plus, Gazprom is a major sponsor of German soccer club FC Schalke 04.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA Champions League has officially announced that Russia\u2019s  gas giant Gazprom has become an official partner of the UEFA Champions League football tournament through 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,135,118,127,14],"tags":[27685,27687,27675,27678,27683,27682,27681,27674,2232,27686,27677,27684,27676],"class_list":["post-21407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-football","category-hot","category-sport","category-world","tag-alexey-miller","tag-gazprom-football-sponsor","tag-gazprom-russia-natural-gas","tag-gazprom-sponsor","tag-gazprom-sponsor-football","tag-gazprom-sponsorship","tag-gazprom-sport","tag-russia-gazprom","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uefa-champions-league-2015","tag-uefa-champions-league-super-cup","tag-uefa-heineken","tag-uefa-super-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}