DAZN signal on for W7F launch in Estoril

March 24 – DAZN’s quest to grow to be the worldwide broadcast chief in soccer has taken one other step ahead with the announcement that the platform would be the international broadcasting, manufacturing, gross sales and advertising and marketing companion of  Worlds Sevens Soccer (W7F).

This new ladies’s competitors will characteristic elite groups and gamers from all over the world, who will compete in a lightning-fast competitors over three-days Could 21-23 in Estoril, Portugal. The primary event will see eight golf equipment play head-to-head for a $5 million prize pool.

The competitors is seven-a-side, two 15-minute halves on pitches half the dimensions of a regulation pitch. The 4 groups will likely be cut up into two teams of 4 in a spherical robin format. The highest two groups in every group with then contest the semifinals with the winners advancing to the ultimate.

As a part of the partnership, DAZN will collaborate with WSF on sub-licensing, and advertising and marketing, leveraging its international attain, market-leading expertise and highly effective advertising and marketing engine to speed up the expansion of the competitors and faucet into an ever-expanding viewers of soccer followers all over the world.

“I’m thrilled in regards to the launch of World Sevens Soccer and the thrilling new format it brings to the game. Our short-format, high-energy matches imply extra motion, leisure, and objectives. This competitors offers footballers one other stage to shine and affords an awesome, probably profitable alternative.

“With DAZN as our companion, we will deliver this thrilling new collection to a worldwide viewers whereas additionally working collectively to forge new partnerships, which is thrilling. DAZN’s dedication to ladies’s sports activities and their in depth protection makes them the right companion to showcase the fast-paced, daring way forward for soccer to followers in all places,” stated English soccer legend Anita Asante, investor, advisor, and member of World Sevens Soccer Gamers’ Advisory Council.

Hannah Brown, co-CEO of Girls’s Sports activities at DAZN, stated: “We’re delighted to be the worldwide media companion for World Sevens Soccer. The fast-paced format, prime class international expertise and record-breaking prize pool make this new competitors a milestone for the sport. 

“DAZN affords rights holders a complete international partnership construction to achieve followers and drive worth. Working hand-in-hand with World Sevens Soccer, collectively, we’ll speed up the expansion and realise the potential of this thrilling new format.

“World Sevens Soccer joins an ever-expanding portfolio of top-flight sport on DAZN, underlining our dedication to constructing the worldwide dwelling of soccer and delivering to followers the perfect sports activities content material from all over the world.”

Jen Mackesy, World Sevens Soccer co-founder, philanthropist, and minority proprietor of the NWSL’s Gotham FC and WSL’s Chelsea FC, stated: “We’re extremely excited to welcome DAZN as a key World Sevens Soccer companion. This partnership represents a serious step ahead for the game, combining our modern event format with DAZN’s unparalleled international attain and experience. Past DAZN’s huge attain, we’re additionally excited to collaborate on sub-licensing and advertising and marketing agreements, leveraging their international attain, market-leading expertise, and highly effective advertising and marketing engine to speed up the expansion of the competitors and faucet into an ever-expanding viewers of soccer followers all over the world. We’re very assured that this collaboration will make sure that World Sevens Soccer turns into a key property in advancing ladies’s soccer, setting new requirements and provoking future generations.”

DAZN, has just lately acquired substantial funding from the Saudi Public Funding Fund (PIF), and has partnered with FIFA to distribute the 2025 Membership World Cup.

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