Socios, the sports fan token project, has partnered with the Süper Lig, Turkey’s primary soccer league, to promote innovation in the country’s soccer landscape.
Alex Dreyfus, the CEO of Socios and Chiliz, said:
“Few countries in the world match the unique passion that Turks feel for the game of football. This partnership will benefit the entire Turkish football ecosystem in a critical moment for the industry, in which it is crucial for sports properties to shift their fans’ role from passive to active.”
It has been reported that Socios already launched fan tokens for six Turkish soccer teams playing across different leagues. Along with over 40 global sports organizations, Turkey’s Alanyaspor, Bursaspor, Galatasaray, Göztepe, İstanbul Başakşehir and Trabzonspor are using fan tokens and Socios’ voting and reward app to engage and monetize their fans.
However, the new partnership makes the sports-focused blockchain company the fan engagement partner of the Union of Clubs. Socios will help the union to apply new technologies to Turkish professional clubs to improve fan engagement, generate new revenue models and increase financial sustainability.
The report said that as part of the deal, the Union of Clubs and Socios.com will co-host a number of workshops and seminars to engage the industry’s main players in conversations around the latest trends affecting the business of football.
Ticket sales and streaming deals account for a big part of revenue for the soccer industry. Since the games are either suspended for a period of time or played without a full audience in most leagues during the pandemic, clubs are in need of fresh business models.
Thus, clubs see fan tokens as a strategic move to enhance their digital presence and stay closer to fans.
Source: Cointelegraph