The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has secured a renewed deal with their kit sponsors adidas to extend their sponsorship to the newly introduced national U-13 teams.

Adidas only produced kits for the senior national teams. But after a meeting last week, Nigerian football officials were able to convince the company to extend the deal to the youth teams.

Now adidas has also agreed to start producing small size apparels to suit the smaller bodies of the U-13 national team players and in addition to this, adidas has also agreed to include footballs in its package with the NFF.

Previously the deal only covered socks, shorts and shirts, along with training attire.

Breaking news - Phillips will soon announce that it will stop as the main shirt sponsor of PSV (Phillips sport vereniging) after 26 years of football shirt sponsoring.

According to Stan Valckx, Philips will soon no longer be on the shirts of PSV.

Former technical director of PSV Stan Valckx said in an interview with the Dutch radio program - NOS Langs de Lijn -  that Philips no longer has affinity with top-level football.

Valckx, who is also a former football player at PSV, also said that, “the company will soon announce to the world that they will actually stop as the main shirt sponsor for the club, but that this does not immediately mean that Phillips will no longer sponsor PSV at all”.

According to Valckx, Phillips will stay within the name of the Club and Philips stadium will stay the name of the PSV stadium for a significant amount, but as a shirt sponsor Philips will disappear.

Queens Park Rangers are close to agreeing a new £20 million shirt sponsorship deal which could result in Loftus Road being renamed the Kingfisher Stadium.

Formula One team Force India's owner Vijay Mallya is expanding his football interest outside India and is on the verge of inking a shirt sponsorship deal with English Championship club Queens Park Rangers, according to media reports.

Mallya, who sponsors Kolkata clubs Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, is close to agreeing a five-year £ 20 million deal to advertise his Kingfisher beer on the players' shirts, and a naming rights deal for the Loftus Road stadium, to be named after Mallya's Kingfisher brand.

Wigan Athletic shirt sponsor JJB warned investors over its ability to continue as a going concern. 

Shares in JJB Sports nearly halved in value yesterday after the firm axed its half-year dividend and reported interim losses of £9.7 million.

JJB have sponsored Wigan Athletic since the 1994/95 season and Wigan Athletic have been a good advertising tool for the sportswear company.

Wigan Athletic’s sponsorship deal with JJB ends after this 08/09 season and the Latics are actively looking at new investors not only for the football shirts but also for naming rights on the stadium, the trouble is the world is in financial crisis and there couldn’t be a worse time to find new sponsors.

1. FC Nuremberg and Adidas have agreed to a long-term continuation of their existing football equipment contract and a further intensification of cooperation.

"adidas and 1.FC Nuremberg are linked by far more than a longstanding partnership as sponsor and supplier. We are united by an unparalleled passion for football and of course our bond to the region. We look forward to continuing to stand by the club as a strong partner, in good times and bad," said Erich Stamminger, Chief Executive Officer and President of adidas brand.

"1.FC Nuremberg and adidas are not only two historic names and brands: 1.FC Nuremberg and adidas are a decades-old and yet ever-young partnership. We are delighted to be able to continue this impressive collaboration in future," said Michael A. Roth, 1.FC Nuremberg Chairman.

Torino FC, who signed a kit deal with kappa back in June, has secured a new 3-year shirt sponsorship deal with Renault Trucks, according to a recent announcement by the club.

Starting from last weekend, Torino shirts will show the logo of Renault Trucks. The new sponsored kit was worn for the first time in the match against Inter Milan (1-3)

The value of Tornino’s latest sponsorship is estimated at approximately 3 million Euro.

The truck company is already acting as sponsors for Olympique Lyonnais who won the last 7 titles in the French championship.

Producing cars since late 1898, the Renault corporation was founded in 1899 as Société Renault Frères by Louis Renault, his brothers Marcel and Fernand, and his friends Thomas Evert and Julian Wyer.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and eircom announced a continuation of their partnership in a new deal which will see the relationship extended through 2010 with an option to renew further.

This new contract sees eircom continue as the primary sponsor of the FAI and primary sponsor of all Republic of Ireland International teams.

West Ham United played with squad numbers in place of a sponsor's logo against Newcastle United today.

The decision follows consultation with the Premier League with regard to the various options open to the club following the termination of the relationship with XL Holidays last week.

This decision still allows future dispensation from the Premier League to change player and replica kits to a new commercial sponsor once an agreement is in place.

WHUFC:  "Although aware and respectful of the supporter-backed campaign to replace XL Holidays with the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK, the commercial reality is the club has a financial duty to secure the best possible sponsorship package to help with the continued development of the first-team squad. "