Bitcoin Adoption and Acceptance Among Football Clubs Is Getting Diversified

This makes PSV Eindhoven the first football club on the European continent to have all its sponsorship money paid out in BTC.

Closer to wide adoption

It is now more obvious that the cryptoasset is widely accepted and adopted by major sports clubs around the world, a thing that brings confidence in users and investors, especially the beginners.

Another Dutch football club AZ Alkmaar announced a partnership with local cryptoasset exchange Bitcoin Meester in July 2021. The agreement made the exchange the club's official BTC partner. The cryptoasset exchange has to pay a certain percentage of the contract in BTC, and the football club wants to keep this on its balance sheet.

Numerous football clubs, including PSG in France, Arsenal and Man City in England, AC Milan in Italy, Barcelona in Spain, have partnered with cryptocurrency companies in various ways, but not a single club has received the entire sponsorship amount in any form of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin.

Most of these clubs have created their own fan tokens that allow their supporters to participate in various club activities such as voting for the best goal, best player, rewarding their best players, buying club jerseys, shoes, tickets and many others. For example, PSG fans rewarded Lionel Andrés Messi with a huge amount of PSG Fan Token after his arrival at the club, according to CoinIdol, a world blockchain news outlet. This has caused the market cap of Paris Saint-Germain Fan Token to rise from $22.5 to $61.23, a gain of over 172%.

PSV Eindhoven's announcement makes it clear that cryptocurrencies have more than one use case in sports. The good thing is that Bitcoin is being used for payments in this industry, which means that at least sports recognises its potential for transactions rather than for storing value.