News: [Avaya Stadium] for one of the richest team sponsorships in Major League Soccer

Avaya's a pretty good sponsor to get on board, particularly for a team that used to have Amway on their jerseys and practice at the Nutralite Center (or something like that). Hopefully they can get a jersey sponsor of similar prestige.

 

FIFA could probably use/steal some of that cloud technology come 2022.

 

meant to include the "d" on practiced, knew that wasn't active

 

It's a 10-way tie for 3rd.

 

can't find a list but it might be close.

Seattle, DC, New England, NYCFC, Vancouver, and Orlando (for now) don't play in soccer stadiums.
KC and Columbus don't have sponsors.
Red Bull and Montreal have their owner's companies.

So the only MLS soccer stadiums with sponsors:
- Salt Lake
- LA
- Colorado
- Dallas
- Houston
- Toronto
- Chicago
- Salt Lake
- San Jose
- Philadelphia

two of them (Portland and Philadelphia) are sponsored by a health system and utility, respectively. doubt those are > $2M.

 

- Montreal

 

Fine...now let's see it ON THE FIELD, Wolff.

Enough of this Atiba Harris/Sam Cronin/Shea Salinas nonsense.

 

Avaya Stadium ‏@AvayaStadium 1m1 minute ago
Welcome to #AvayaStadium, proud new home of the @SJEarthquakes! #Quakes74 http://www.sjearthquakes.com/avayastadium/announcement…




San Jose Earthquakes ‏@SJEarthquakes 2m2 minutes ago
OFFICIAL: Quakes partner with @Avaya, granting official naming rights of our new home @AvayaStadium! #Quakes74

 

Wait, you're not a Quakes fan, are you? And you want the Quakes to actually be competitive? :--)

 

New excuse will probably just shift from not generating enough gameday revenue to well we have to pay off our stadium construction debt now (which I do commend him for privately financing this).

 

I'm a "fan of the league", as they say.

And it would be bad for the league to watch the Quakes get repeatedly murdered by a relentless horde of Western Conf. opponents in their own brand spanking new building next year.

Or, at least I think it would....

 

To be fair, they did quietly sign what I think is their first 7-figure DP (Matias Perez-Garcia), or at least the transfer figure was likely in the 7 figures. So, 2 DP's now. But still a lot of work to do on the roster...

Yeah, and even if you are a fan of a Quakes rival, you may not want them to be eye-gougingly bad, which is what they were last year.

 

Ha! I skipped right by that part.

My apologies.

 

Lower right of Avaya/USA's homepage

Coincidentally, recently partnered with Kroenke Sports to open a business center at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

 

congrats to SJ Earthquakes for securing this deal. progress

 

Great list!

It lists the Home Depot Center at $7m a year. When it changed to Stub Hub, this article mentioned up to $10m a year but looking at the list you linked, that seems awful high.

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/03/04/Facilities/StubHub.aspx?

I wonder why Coors field is so low?

 

I didn't know most stadiums in the US make only so much off naming rights. MLS stadiums are comparable to all other sports league in these terms.

Red Bull Arena would probably get significantly more if they allowed someone else to sponsor it. The nearby Prudential Center is getting $5.25 million a year.

 

This might be an ignorant question, but why build a double-sided video board? To me, it doesn't look like it will serve fans in the stadium, so who is it for? If it's just for advertising during non-game times, that seems awfully expensive.

 

NEW SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES STADIUM OFFICIALLY NAMED - ABC 7 video