List of ASICS sponsorships

Association football

Club teams

Chavdar Etropole

Santarcangelo Real Siderano

Vissel Kobe KF Trepça'89 G.D. Desportivo Arouce Praia

Players

Jefferson David Suazo Noel Valladares Mario Yepes

Salvatore Aronica Fabio Grosso Paolo De Ceglie Antonio Di Natale Giulio Migliaccio

Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi [1] Alessandro dos Santos Shinji Ono Cheick Diabaté Arata Izumi

Former sponsorships

During the early to late 1990s, ASICS supplied kit for a number of English football teams, including:

Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Newcastle United Norwich City Portsmouth Coventry City Bradford City Leeds United Sunderland Stoke City Millwall

Borussia Mönchengladbach Panathinaikos Olympiacos PAOK Aris Larissa Panionios OFI Skoda Xanthi Greece national team Lecce

Pistoiese Roma Verona Sampdoria Torino Reggina Iaola Liri Northern Ireland national team Dundee United Auckland City FC  Japan national team  Philippines national team

Australian rules football

Club Teams

• Fremantle Dockers
• Norwood Football Club
• Sydney Swans

Players

• Brent Harvey
• Jarryd Roughead
• Joel Selwood
• Kurt Tippett

Baseball

• Chunichi Dragons ^[2]

Basketball

National teams

• Japan

Club teams

• C.U.S. Torino

Boxing

• Hiroki Ioka
• Kostya Tszyu
• Hozumi Hasegawa

Cricket

National teams

•  Australia

Players

• Mitchell Johnson
• Shane Watson
• Brad Haddin
• Michael Clarke

Field hockey

National teams

•  Australia
•  United States

Players

• Eddie Ockenden
• Mark Knowles

Roller hockey

club teams

• Breganze (Since the 2013/2014 season)

Golf

Players

• Shingo Katayama
• Rui Kitada

Handball

National teams

Argentina  Brazil  Japan

Club teams

Montpellier RK Crvena zvezda

Netball

National Teams

• Australian Diamonds

Club Teams

Adelaide Thunderbirds New South Wales Swifts Queensland Firebirds West Coast Fever

Melbourne Vixens Canterbury Tactix Central Pulse

Northern Mystics Southern Steel Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic

Players

• Kimberlee Green
• Laura Geitz
• Madison Robinson

Rugby league

• Cooper Cronk
• Greg Inglis^[3]
• Johnathan Thurston^[4]
• Nathan (Multiples) Cripps

Club teams

• Canberra Raiders
• New Zealand Warriors
• Penrith Panthers
• Leeds Rhinos (until 2004)

Rugby union

National teams

South Africa (from January 1, 2014)[5]  South Africa Sevens (from January 1, 2014)[5]  South Africa Under-20 (from January 1, 2014)[5]  South Africa Women (from January 1, 2014)[5]  South Africa Women's Sevens (from January 1, 2014)[5]  Australian Rugby Union  Australia Sevens  Australia Under-20  Australia Women  Australia Women's Sevens

Club teams

Stade Français Amatori Rugby San Donà

Players

• Israel Folau
• James Horwill

Swimming

• Tomoko Hagiwara
• Yuko Nakanisi

Tennis

Marinko Matosevic Philipp Kohlschreiber Samantha Stosur Alexander Peya David Goffin André Sá Bruno Soares João Souza Vasek Pospisil Stéphanie Foretz Gacon Gaël Monfils Virginie Razzano Kenny de Schepper Theodore McDonald Sebastian Mermersky Brandon Holt

Florent Serra Filippo Volandri Ai Sugiyama Jesse Huta Galung Frederico Gil Maria João Köhler Nikolay Davydenko María José Martínez Sánchez Albert Montañés Jonathan Marray Steve Johnson William Blumberg

Table Tennis

• Nissan Table Tennis
• Tokyo Art Table Tennis
• Citizen Micro Human Tech Table Tennis

Track and Field

National teams

• Netherlands
• Romania
• France
• Bulgaria
• Mauritius

Club teams

• Samsung Electronics Athletic Club

Athletes

Luke Gunn Viktor Röthlin Christophe Lemaitre Deena Kastor Ryan Hall April Steiner-Bennett Greg Nixon Julie Culley Lashawn Butler Lauren Hagans Sara Hall Tora Harris Sharon Day Jake Arnold Kara Patterson Matt Reed Russell Winger Candace Hill Suzy Powell-Roos

Desiree Flicker Greg Nixon Andy Potts Lolo Jones Adriana Nelson Dafne Schippers Nelli Cooman Melissa Boekelman Romara van Noort Jeroen van Damme Wilbert Pennings Jesse Huta Galung Robert van der Horst Antal van der Duim Letitia Vriesde Dennis Licht Teun de Nooijer

Marije Smits Hanna Mariën Thomas Van der Plaetsen Tom Van Hooste Pieter Desmet Jesse Stroobants Jeroen D'Hoedt Kim Ruell Anja Smolders Yuko Arimori Naoko Takahashi Mizuki Noguchi Reiko Tosa Chisato Fukushima Atsushi Sato Yoshiko Fujinaga Naoyuki Daigo Dani Samuels Jarrod Geddes Jessica Trengove Kimberley Mickle

Triathlon

• Emma Moffatt
• Pete Jacobs

Volleyball

National teams

•  Belarus
•  Estonia
•  Finland
•  South Korea
•  Italy
•  Honduras
•  Nicaragua
•  Portugal
•  Austria
•  Mauritius
•  Philippines

Club teams

Minas Tênis Clube SESI São Paulo Molico Nestlé Osasco Ansan Rush & Cash Vespid Asan Woori Card Hansae Cheonan Hyundai Capital Skywalkers Gumi LIG Insurance Greaters Suwon KEPCO 45 Hwaseong IBK Altos

Materdomini Volley Libertas Brianza Cuneo V.C. Club Italia (pallavolo maschile) Cuatto Volley Giaveno Bakery Volley Volley Potentino Constanţa OK Crvena zvezda

References

1. "Partnership player". ASICS Corporation. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
2. http://dragonsshop.info/shopbrand/007/X
3. http://www.asics.com.au/news.asp?id=81
4. http://www.asics.com.au/news.asp?id=55
5. "SARU announce ASICS as new apparel sponsor" (Press release). South African Rugby Union. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2013-08-29.