Chelsea Football Club is pleased to announce the beginning of a long-term partnership with MatchWornShirt, renowned worldwide for bringing football fans closer to the game by enabling them to own the match-worn and signed shirts of their favourite players.
Chelsea fans now have the opportunity to get their hands on the unique match-worn and signed shirts of our starting players across the men’s and women’s teams for the coming season, and beyond. These auctions go live as soon as a match kicks off and are exclusively available on the MatchWornShirt website and app.
All Chelsea shirts auctioned by MatchWornShirt are equipped with Fabricks: a cutting-edge authentication technology that provides the owner of the shirt with a personal digital certificate that guarantees and protects its identity.
Casper Stylsvig, chief revenue officer for Chelsea Football Club said: ‘We are delighted to welcome MatchWornShirt to the club as our Official Online Match Shirt Auction Partner. They are an industry-leading organisation, bringing world-wide fans of so many sports closer to their heroes, offering the opportunity to buy worn and signed shirts in a safe and authenticated way.
‘We know there is huge demand from our incredible supporters, both here in the UK and around world, and we look forward to offering our supporters the opportunity to own a unique piece of their favourite player’s history with the club.’
James Flude, head of business development at MatchWornShirt, commented: ‘We have worked alongside the Chelsea Foundation for the past four years and have always been struck by the global demand for match-worn Chelsea shirts. The extension and expansion of this relationship with a more comprehensive club-wide partnership is an extremely proud moment for us, as it sees our commitment to the Foundation also grow. Thanks to auctions through our platform we are honoured to continue supporting the vital work the Foundation does with this extended partnership, which will continue to see a proportion of auction sales donated.’
MatchWornShirt was founded in 2017 as a destination for match-worn and signed football shirts and has since grown to become an industry leader with more than 300 global partners, also offering unique collectibles from rugby, cricket, cycling and many other sports.