NEC Australia extends partnership with AFL Essendon Football Club to include both the womens and mens teams
NEC Australia has proudly strengthened its partnership with the Essendon Football Club, which will now include backing the Bombers’ AFLW team on and off the field.
The two-year partnership was officially signed off in August at Essendon’s high-performance training base, the NEC Hangar, in the buildup to the 2023 AFLW season.
The partnership will provide support and career opportunities for Essendon’s AFLW players interested in the technology sector, including training and employment to help establish and advance their careers in the industry. It’s an investment in the future of women’s football and a commitment to furthering the development of high-performance players at the NEC Hangar.
To celebrate the partnership and to help inspire the next generation of AFLW players, Essendon stars Maddy Prespakis, Brooke Brown and Stephanie Cain hosted a clinic with grade five and six female students from Tullamarine Primary School.
Learn more information about NEC’s partnership with Essendon’s AFLW team.
This commitment to the AFLW team builds on our existing partnership with Essendon’s AFL mens team.In 2020 NEC Australia entered into a major multi-season partnership with AFL's Essendon Football Club. NEC celebrated 50 years in Australia by partnering with Essendon and a sporting code as loved and wide-reaching as the AFL.
This strategic partnership presented an opportunity for the Club to strengthen its commitment to innovation in technology, while also transforming the customer experience for members and supporters and exploring opportunities and technologies to improve team performance across our high performance and data/analytics departments.
NEC’s Commercial Partnership with EFC
Central to the partnership is NEC’s naming rights sponsorship of The Bombers’ training and administrative base - ‘The NEC Hangar’. With the partnership, NEC also became the official ICT Solutions Partner, Commercial Partner and Premium Network Partner for Essendon Football Club.
The Commercial Partnership includes match day advertising at Essendon’s home games at Marvel Stadium and the MCG.
In 2022 we celebrated our match day by celebrating and highlighting our partnership with Invictus Australia and in 2023 with the Dylan Alcott Foundation.
This partnership highlights the many areas of NEC’s expertise in servicing business and government sectors, through our involvement in the Essendon Football Club business network.
Hangar Naming Rights
NEC sponsorship provides naming rights of EFC's training and administrative base.
ICT Solutions Partner
NEC will become the official ICT Solutions Partner for Essendon Football Club.
Commercial Partner
NEC will become the official Commercial Partner for the Essendon Football Club.
NEC Hangar
This NEC Hangar precinct is home to the:
- Essendon Men's Australian Football League (AFL) team
- Essendon Women’s AFL team
- Essendon Men's Victorian Football League (VFL) team
- Essendon Women’s VFL team
- A-League soccer club ‘Western United Football Club’ and
- Paralympics Australia wheelchair basketball team.
The complex also includes:
- two ovals – one which replicates the MCG and another which replicates Marvel Stadium oval – because they are different
- accessible dormitory accommodation that houses Australia’s para-athletes and supports national training camps for Paralympics Australia and participants in the club’s Next Generation Academy
- community change rooms and match-day facilities to support the club’s pathways programs and associated community leagues (Essendon District Football League and Riddell District Football Netball League)
- a Glory & Fame Museum which celebrates the rich history and achievements of athletes from the Essendon Football Club, Paralympics Australia and the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Sports Hall of Fame
- community health and wellbeing hub has been established on the site which includes a health clinic, classroom space and community breakout and gathering place
- the Jack Jones Café
- a function centre and of course
- a Bombers merchandise shop.
“We look forward to empowering fans and business communities through this strategic partnership featuring NEC’s world-leading technologies, our emphasis on the best possible customer experience and Essendon’s leadership in developing sport for current and future generations,” Mr Murooka said.
Essendon Chief Executive Officer Xavier Campbell has welcomed NEC Australia to the Essendon family.
“On behalf of the Club, I want to formally welcome NEC Australia to the Bombers through this exciting new alliance,” Mr Campbell said.
“We believe the value NEC will bring to The Hangar specifically and the Club more broadly will ensure our facility continues to be industry leading and through this partnership we will support NEC’s exciting growth plans for the future,” Mr Campbell said.
