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Venezuela national football team sponsors 2024

This article contains information regarding the organisations enjoying a strong branding presence across the Venezuela men’s and/or women’s national football teams’ physical and digital assets as sponsors and partners of the Venezuelan Football Federation.

Name of the football association: Venezuelan Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Venezolana de Fútbol; FVF)

Sponsors

PDVSA

PDVSA, a Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company founded in 1976, has been acting as a principal sponsor of the Venezuelan national team since 2015. 

Banco de Venezuela

Founded in 1890, Banco de Venezuela, an international universal bank based in Caracas and one of the market leaders in Venezuela with an 11.3% market share for deposits, became an official sponsor of the FVF in July 2023 after signing a multi-year partnership agreement.

Forum Súper Mayorista

Forum Súper Mayorista, a Venezuelan supermarket chain located in Caracas, also acts as an official partner of the FVF. 

Movilnet

Movilnet is a state-owned telecommunications company focused on mobile telephony in Venezuela and covers over 50% of the country’s mobile telephone lines.

Hispana de Seguros

Founded in 1997, Hispana de Seguros is a Latin America–based insurance company that provides both car and human-related (health, term, life) insurance products. 

Del Corral

Founded in 2020, Del Corral is a Venezuelan food and beverage restaurant chain. 

Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela

Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela is an organisation constituted by Venezuela to plan and coordinate public policies. Based in Caracas, it is composed of a secretariat, ministries, governorates, state municipalities, and representatives of the organised society. 

CLX

CLX Communications, a telecom and cloud communications platform-as-a-service company based in Stockholm, Sweden, has also been serving as an official sponsor to the FVF. 

MultiMax Store

MultiMax is a Venezuelan electronic store chain. 

Lady Speed Stick

Introduced in 1983, Lady Speed Stick is an American brand of deodorant/antiperspirant produced by multinational healthcare company Colgate-Palmolive.

Diablitos Underwood

The William Underwood Company is an American food company best known for its flagship product Underwood Deviled Ham, a canned meat spread, or Diablitos Underwood, as known in Latin America. 

Wawa

Founded in 1964, Wawa is an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations originating in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and now located along the US east coast.

Ridery

Founded in 2021, Ridery is a mobility platform and ride-hailing company that provides city transportation for customers and driver-partners. 

Harina PAN

Founded in 1960, Harina PAN is a refined corn flour used to make arepas, empanadas, hallacas, and bollitos. It is the first brand of boiled maize flour in Venezuela. 

Pepsi

Pepsi, a soft carbonated soft drink by PepsiCo, an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, is also an official FVF sponsor. 

Polar

Founded in 1882, Polar Beverages is a privately-owned soft drink company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a manufacturer and distributor of sparkling fruit beverages, seltzer, ginger ale, drink mixers, and spring water to customers in the US.

Maltín

First introduced in 1951, Maltín Polar is a non-alcoholic malt beverage brewed and bottled in Venezuela by Cervecería Polar (part of Empresas Polar) and in the US by the Florida Brewery. 

Gatorade

First introduced in 1965, Gatorade is an American brand of sports-themed beverage and food products. Gatorade is currently manufactured by PepsiCo and is distributed in over 80 countries.

Minalba

Minalba is a Brazilian company responsible for the production and distribution of bottled mineral water worldwide.

Plan B

Plan B, or commonly known as Levonorgestrel, is a hormonal medication which is used in a number of birth control methods. It is combined with oestrogen to make combination birth control pills.

Marfran

Founded in 1987, Italy-based Marfran is a producer of SEBS, SBS, and TPO-based TPEs in the thermoplastic elastomer market.

BERA Motorcycles

BERA Motorcycles is a Venezuelan automotive and part accessories dealership. BERA primarily deals in two-wheeler vehicles and its part accessories. 

Rutaca Airlines

RUTACA Airlines is a Venezuelan airline headquartered in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, with its home base at the Tomás de Heres Airport and a hub at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas. The airline was founded in 1970. 

Arturo’s

Allies

El Sistema

El Sistema (which translates to “The System” in Spanish) is a publicly financed, voluntary sector, music-education programme founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu. It later adopted the motto “Music for Social Change”.

UNICEF

UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

In February 2023, UNICEF approved a new cooperation programme with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period 2023–26 to advance the fulfilment of the rights of children and adolescents.

CIES/Red Universitaria Internacional

The International Centre for Sports Studies, known most commonly by the initials CIES (Centre International d’Etude du Sport), is an independent, research, and education organisation located in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It has a research group called CIES Football Observatory that focuses on statistical studies of football-related matters.

Double Pass

Founded in 2004 with headquarters in the European Union, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Double Pass is a performance enhancement and data analytics company that assesses and advises football clubs, leagues, and federations on optimising their talent development.

FM Center

FM Center is a radio network in Venezuela based in Caracas. It was founded by Rodolfo Rodríguez García in 1997 and is the largest radio network in the country, owning 64 AM and FM radio stations nationwide. 

Televen TuCanal

Televen TuCanal is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. Televen was inaugurated on July 10, 1988, by Omar Camero Zamora and T Radioven. 

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Rahul Saha

Rahul Saha is a senior sports writer at Sportskhabri.com. Experienced in various sports writing tasks, including op-ed pieces and player/team profiles, with particular expertise in Football. Also a cat-dad and a regular reader, he spends his free time with his cats and learning new things.

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