• Sponsorship black gap so acute that 27 of 34 slots unfilled
• Fifa faces annual loss of £67m after drastic loss of incomeFifa’s sponsorship “black gap” is so acute that 27 out of 34 slots for potential partners remain unfilled. The corruption scandal has proved so toxic that no new sponsors maintain joined since the 2014 World Cup,while several maintain severed all ties with the world governing body including main partners Sony and Emirates.
Out of 14 tier-one and tier-two partner slots, only seven are currently filled. Efforts to find 20 regional sponsors – four from each continent – maintain failed completely. The loss of income has had a drastic effect on Fifa’s finances . It has forecast making a deficit of £67m for 2015, or the first time it will maintain made a loss since 2001.
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Source: theguardian.com