Phoenix Sponsorship

A great addition to the Phoenix' family of partners. Terrific synergies with @HuaweiMobileNZ and a number of other partners as well. Welcome on board @SparkNZ ! https://t.co/vSjBf5necH

— David Dome (@Domestar) July 20, 2020

Going forward tho, who knows. Huawei's deal was up at the end of the season iirc?

Yep. And I thought that they were governmented out of the market here, but don't really know the details.

The GCSB blocked Sparks(?) proposal to build their 5G network with Huawei gear. I think that was the extent of it though - they're still selling their retail gear etc. 

Seems unlikely considering Sky sponsors the team and stadium and has the broadcast deal.

Interesting that it's spark and not Vodafone though who has relationships with the nix through HRL Morrison.

Yeah that seems a bit odd 

More than happy to see a bidding war over football in the future between Spark and Sky.

spark have technically been sponsoring the nix for years. Cloud creator have been on the back of the shorts for some time and are a subsidiary of spark.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/huawei-and-the-raiders-the-collapse-of-a-sports-deal-with-global-implications-20200831-p55qvy.html

More significantly, Huawei's decision to pull the pin on the Raiders is the end of a process in Australia that will now be mirrored around the world.

Wonder what this will mean for the Phoenix and Huawei?

It'd be a shame if we got someone new. I like the look of the Huawei logo on out kit.

So next season looks likes this, No license, no major sponsors and no home games.  

Think the license is the only factor of the above which is guaranteed if we want  it

https://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/news/huawei-and-wellington-phoenix-part-ways-after-seven-seasons

Writing on the wall with the above comments.

My three picks as a new sponsor:

1. Spark

2. Sky Sports

3. Xero

Spark and Sky are going to have a bidding fight for the A League next time rights come up. Sky can't skip out now that there is a real competitor in the game.

Should hopefully see some added content introduced as well.

I know Spark is already a sponsor but Vodafone is also an option because of the Phoenix's ties to Morrison & Co.

Whoever is the sponsor there is no way they will be paying as much as Huawei did, I believe the next sponsor deal with be a budget deal paying about a 3rd of what Huawei did.

A sky logo or a Spark logo would look quite cool on a Nix shirt so long as it is not as big as the Huawei one. Make it about 25% smaller and it'd be choice.

Not Sky. It was the death of the Kingz.