DAVNIS Sports Information

DAVNIS Sports is a… …globally active Israeli sports marketing agency specialising in sponsorship, media rights, events and business development. The company’s focus is primarily on Israel and Europe, especially the German-speaking countries. DAVNIS Sports is able to… …draw on an extensive international and local network, coupled with working experience and in-depth market know-how in the professional sports, media, and consumer brands industries. Dirk Schluenz founded DAVNIS Sports in 2013. For more than 15 years, Dirk had worked in a number of management roles within Sportfive, Europe’s leading sports agency. During that time, he was based in several European countries including Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Dirk previously took responsibility for international sales of leading media rights properties like the IOC Olympic Games 2014 and 2016, the UEFA EURO 2008, the FIFA World CUP 2014 official qualifying matches for more than 30 European National Teams including Israel, as well as the entire media rights of the Israeli Professional Football Leagues (Ligat Ha’al) from 2007-2012. With regard to marketing and sponsorship, Dirk worked with many leading European football clubs while heading up Siemens mobile’s pan-European sponsorship project. The more than 20 premium sponsorships included Real Madrid CF, FC Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Juventus Turin. Currently… …DAVNIS Sports is working with clubs like Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, where around 80 per cent of all active sponsorships have been brokered by DAVNIS Sports, including Hewlett-Packard, Hisense and adidas. DAVNIS Sports additionally cooperates with FC Schalke 04 and PAOK Saloniki on sponsorship and media rights sales. Further, DAVNIS Sports is engaged in driving business development projects, chiefly in the digital sports tech industry, and in supporting international market development using its global network of contacts and in-depth market knowledge.