Ligue 2: Sportfive becomes the marketing agency to Red Star FC (2015-16 to 2019-20)

Sportfive, the sports marketing agency of the Lagardère Unlimited group, has become the exclusive marketing rights agency of Red Star FC (Ligue 2) for the next five seasons (2015-16 to 2019-20), announced the two parties on 09/06/2015. Red Star, the 2014-15 National (French third division) champions in 2014-15, are promoted to Ligue 2 for 2015-16.

The club have not played at the second division level since 1998-99. The club, based in of Saint-Ouen (just north-west of Paris) have estimated a budget of €7.5m for the 2015-16 season. "Media rights automatically allow us to increase the budget. We are also accompanied by an kit supplier for many years, adidas, and partners such as Bouygues and Dailymotion, who have been with us from the CFA (French fourth division," said Patrice Haddad, president of Red Star FC, to News Tank Football on 04/06/2015.