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Team Vitality Unveils Globally Inspired 2025 Esports Jersey
Team Vitality's 2025 jersey may be its last with brand partner Hummel.Team Vitality / HummelNew esports jersey announcements are always exciting, but they seem less frequent these daysbrand partnerships in competitive gaming have fallen away, and many squads are tightening their purse strings. Still, French outfit Team Vitality continues to soldier on, and its newest jersey with Hummel is among its best yet.Today, Team Vitality unveiled its 2025 Pro Jersey, created in partnership with the Danish sportswear company, offering a design that combines the organizations signature colors and identity with Hummels enduring chevron. The jersey features Team Vitalitys bee logo, placed within the Eiffel Tower and encircled by a globesymbolizing the teams Parisian origins, plus its wider fanbase around the world.Meanwhile, the shoulders incorporate a pattern of arrows which forms a V for Vitality and a W for winning, with the phrase V FOR VICTORY inscribed at the bottom of the jerseya fair point, given it was named Esports Organization of the Year at the 2023 Esports Awards after a massively successful 12 months for the team.The 2025 jersey will be worn by Team Vitalitys 14 teams across international competitions, including IEM Katowice, the Rocket League Birmingham Major, and the Valorant Masters in Bangkok. The launch also aims to bolster Team Vitalitys ongoing expansion into North America and Southeast Asia.MORE FOR YOUTeam Vitalitys deal with Hummel ends in 2025the esports team signed a three-year contract with the Danish manufacturer in January 2023and its difficult to predict if the French squad will extend its partnership, find another brand, or go in-house for 2026 and beyond.Given the cost-cutting measures of the last 12 months, theres every chance that Vitality will find a new path with its jersey manufacturer. Hummel signed a separate three-year deal in 2023 with David Beckhams Guild Esports, and continues to provide shirts for Astralis, but hasnt signed a new esports team since 2023; elsewhere, the likes of 100 Thieves maintain a partnership with Adidas, even though G2 Esports didnt. In any case, this may be one of the last jerseys we see between Team Vitality and Hummel.
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