{"id":1031,"date":"2025-02-14T23:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2025-02-15T01:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:55:57","slug":"premier-league-to-reportedly-phase-out-front-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/2025\/02\/14\/premier-league-to-reportedly-phase-out-front-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League to reportedly phase out front-of-shirt gambling sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League has informed the UK Government it intends to phase out front-of-shirt branding for gambling companies, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>But it will allow clubs to continue featuring gambling brands on their shirt sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals submitted to ministers detail a gradual reduction of gambling sponsorships over the next few years, although plans have been made to keep gaming brands on &#8220;less visible&#8221; shirt sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League has argued a sudden vacuum in gaming sponsorships would leave some of its clubs financially hamstrung, particularly if such laws were to trickle down to the English Football League.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Philp from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is understood to be considering the Premier League\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, The Premier League\u2019s proposal represents a voluntary agreement between clubs on gambling sponsorship laws.<\/p>\n<p>Several top-flight clubs have gambling sponsors, including Newcastle United with Fun88, West Ham with Betway, Brentford with Hollywood Bets and the recently promoted Bournemouth with <a href=\"https:\/\/betders.com\">Dafabet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact,<\/p>\n<p>it was only recently that Dafabet struck its sponsorship agreement with Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>A DCMS spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are undertaking the most comprehensive review of gambling laws in 15 years to ensure they are fit for the digital age. We will be publishing a White Paper as part of a review of gambling legislation in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League has declined to comment on any conversations held with the DCMS and ministerial officials.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>GI Friday<\/p>\n<p>addresses the issue of the Gambling Act review<\/p>\n<p>, a sponsorship ban and the potential prohibition of free bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League has informed the UK Government it intends to phase out front-of-shirt branding for gambling companies, according to Sky News. But it will allow clubs to continue featuring gambling brands on their shirt sleeves. Proposals submitted to ministers detail a gradual reduction of gambling sponsorships over the next few years, although plans have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirathaimassage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}