http://www.sportingpulse.com/club_info.cgi?client=1-118-10462-0-0&sID=5…
The Port Melbourne Football Club wishes to announce that TEAC Australia Pty Ltd. have reviewed the partnership arrangement with the Club and both parties have reached agreement on discontinuing the agreement as of 30 November 2011.
TEAC’s association with the Port Melbourne Football Club was established in 1988 and both parties have mutually agreed to end the arrangement.
The name TEAC has been synonymous not only with the Port Melbourne Football Club but also within the Victorian Football League, associate State Leagues and the AFL.
The Port Melbourne Football Club the most successful team in VFL/VFA history having won sixteen Premierships and competing in seventy-one finals series, and are the current reigning Premiers & Champions having won twenty-one out of twenty-one games in the 2011 season, will now seek a new sponsorship partner/s for the 2012 VFL season which will include the Australia wide Foxtel Cup.
When was the ground called officialy called Teac Oval.
In the 1990 finals series the ground was still referred to as North Port Oval.
A shame to see the end of one of the best known sponsorships in the VFL. TEAC were a vitally important sponsor, particularly during the tough period in the 90s.
It's extremely difficult attracting sponsors in this economic climate, here's hoping the club can land another big one, especially if the naming rights to the oval come with it.
I would have thought the premiership this year would help strengthen the chances of the sponsorship continuing.
So many big big businesses in the Port Melbourne region, hopefully the club has success bringing one of them onboard.
Holden
Boeing
Kraft
Toyota
Australia Post
ISS Australia
Telstra
TOLL Shipping
Bunnings
etc
Maybe... AVON
KEYSER HOISERY
POPPY LIPSTICK
TAMPAX
Now which one of those names sounds good for North Port Oval ? Maybe North Port Kraft Oval or North Port Holden Oval maybe ??
The trouble with National and Multi national businesses is that they want a National cover for their bucks and a local league cannot give that to them.Its great that Port was able to hang onto TEAC for so long.
The other problem I would think all the VFL clubs have is that the Melbourne sports market is now saturated with 4 new soccer and rugby teams also looking for sponsers all the time and most of them have a national footprint.
Maybe if the Foxtel Cup can expand then the VFL clubs would have a chance of snaring some of the National brands.
In the end sponsership is a business deal for these companies and they all want bang for their buck - the days of sponserships being like a charity handout are well gone.
Ozy maybe Frankston this year should have been sponsored by sorbent very soft
No fight from me thier mate, think Frankston were first vfl club to have a women or two in thier team, not port.
hows the trophy cabinet down at frangers ozy? :beer:
Proud stand alone club, only one 2 never merge in afl reserves mate.
Keep your afl trophies sport. More than happy 2 watch the only true vfl team run around without looking at afl trophies.
Just a question when a team with afl players win a flag,does the flag go with the afl team?