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West Ham are 1 of 8 Premier League clubs to beryllium sponsored by a gambling firmPremier League clubs person collectively agreed to retreat gambling sponsorship from the beforehand of their matchday shirts by the extremity of the 2025-26 season.
The announcement follows a consultation involving the league, its clubs and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport arsenic portion of the government's ongoing reappraisal of existent gambling legislation.
Eight top-flight clubs person gambling companies connected the beforehand of their shirts, worthy an estimated £60m per year, and clubs volition beryllium allowed to unafraid caller shirt-front deals earlier the deadline.
The determination volition spot the Premier League go the archetypal sports league successful the UK to instrumentality specified a measurement voluntarily successful bid to trim gambling advertising.
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