ALL-IRELAND LADIES SENIOR football champions Cork have sealed a lucrative new kit deal, believed to be worth up to €60,000 over the next three years.
The Rebelettes will be wearing jerseys manufactured by Armagh-based McKeever Sports for next Saturday’s TG4 Munster championship opener against Waterford in Fermoy.
The new kit is only available via the McKeever Sports parent company — TheGAAStore.com — and as part of the new arrangement, Adidas will supply the Cork players with training gear and leisurewear.
Cork have won the TG4 All-Ireland senior crown in ten of the last 11 seasons and last Saturday, they claimed a fourth successive Lidl National League Division 1 crown.#
Cork’s minors lined out in the new McKeever kit during their recent Munster final victory over Kerry, and the U16s have been wearing Adidas leisurewear as negotiations between both parties reached a successful conclusion. Cork’s senior team wore O’Neill’s jerseys during their recent march to League glory and have also been supplied by Kukri sports in recent times.
But TheGAAStore.com is now the leading supplier of Adidas teamwear in Ireland and the company boasts a particularly close affiliation with Cork, having supplied the men’s senior team with training and leisurewear for their recent training camp in Portugal, as well as boots for the players.
In recent weeks, TheGAAStore.com secured a ladies football kit licence and the company has managed to secure the most successful team in the recent history of ladies football.
The Cork agreement is a major statement of intent and company sources have indicated that they will actively pursue deals with other top county teams, in an attempt to gain a firm foothold in a highly-competitive market.
It is believed that the new kit will be officially launched in Cork later this week, in time for Saturday’s clash with newly-crowned National Football League Division 3 champions Waterford.
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What are ya’s on about who’s paying who ? It’s no advertorial ! Am I the only one surprised and delighted them girls are getting a kit deal worth €60,000 ? I remember in my own county the great Wexford camogie team of the time having to scrimp and save to get a bloody holiday, even though they won an All Ireland, went so far that they done bag packing in Dunnes FFS ! Imagine the men doing that !!! Ladies sport, OK, it’s debatable that it’s not as entertaining as the men’s game but they don’t deserve to be treated as second class citizens ! Fair play girls, f@€( the begrudgers.
Is a yas anything like a yak?
Stay off the internet when you’re drunk like a good lad.
Kieran.. Maybe you should sponsor the Wexford team if you feel so strongly about it..
Maybe I did Marc.
I reckon this piece should be marked as an advertorial for McKeever Sports/thegaastore.com
Fair play to them. Sporting legends and really need to be recognised so…
Yeah Arthur absolute legends known throughout the country
Is that the old style crest? How come the men aren’t allowed use that?
can’t vouch for the ladies team continues with the old crest but I’m fairly sure the men’s team brought out the new crest which was in turn copyrighted by the county board. whatever way you look at it there was money involved.
The crest used here is the coat of arms of Cork City. The Cork GAA teams (i.e. the mens) came up with a new crest a few years back. I assume that because the Ladies Gaelic Football Association is (bizarrely) not a part of the GAA they can’t use it…
Ya Donncha, I know in Tipp and other counties it was a trademark issue and county boards came up with their own makey upey ones and I’d imagine it was money related indeed. Which begs the question are county boards now run like companies just like pro clubs?
Is it just me or does the adidas gear look crap when you know it’s sort of fake
Fake?
@lad I’m pretty sure no one working for adidas apart from the factory workers in Pakistan know about the gear still a great deal though
Bet Anna Geary will be looking savage in it oh & Aisling Thompson too, sexy ladies
@coco expect Ann Geary has retired from inter county playing now..
Free kit for the next three years…..a saving for the cork county board. If its a print (white on the inside) its shit just like the o’neills ones
Yeah the county jerseys are the same price as soccer ones but the county jerseys are poorer quality
Who is paying who for this article
About time the girls got something, they always play better & win more then the guys do.. Cork GAA hasn’t won hurling since 2005 & Football since 2010, shame on them…
Sixty grand wow it must be a really popular game
Jesus that’s ugly.