(TAN): Qatar Airways has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with Club Africain of Tunisia, the airline said in a statement.
This agreement will see the airline’s logo placed on the club’s football, handball and basketball teams’ playing jerseys from the 2020/21 season until the end of the 2023/24 season. Club Africain competes in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and is among Tunisia’s popular football clubs.
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Club Africain’s football team has won 13 Tunisian League titles, 13 Tunisian Cups and three Tunisian Super Cups and is famous for being the first Tunisian Club to win an international trophy, when they won the Maghreb Cup in 1971.
Qatar Airways SVP, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Salam Al Shawa, said: “We are excited to announce this new partnership, which will see Qatar Airways become the main shirt sponsor of Club Africain from the 2020/21 season. We are continually striving to boost our global sporting sponsorship portfolio, and this partnership, the first with any African sporting team, is just one more example of our dedication to the sports sector and our belief in the power of sport to bring people together.”
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Club African Chairman Abdulessalem Al Younsi said: “Upon celebrating the centenary anniversary of Club Africain, we are delighted to announce that the club has reached a four-year partnership with Qatar Airways.”
Qatar Airways has operated flights to the Tunisian capital Tunis since 2005. While COVID-19 forced the airline to temporarily suspend services, Tunis was one of the airline’s first African destinations to resume flights with the national carrier of the State of Qatar currently operating three weekly flights.
