Patrick (sportswear company)

Patrick is a sportswear company headquartered in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium.

Patrick
TypeSportswear
FateOngoing
Founded1892
FounderPatrice Beneteau
Headquarters
Oudenaarde
,
Belgium
Area served
Europe
ProductsSports shoes and socks
Websitepatrick.eu

History

Sportsmen who wore Patrick for notable events include Thierry Henry, Jacques Anquetil winning the Tour de France for the fifth time in 1964, and Michel Platini lifting his third Ballon d'Or in 1985.[1]

The English footballer Kevin Keegan was also notably sponsored by Patrick,[2] before such advertising deals were commonplace, and Patrick football boots became a fashionable brand for English schoolboys in the 1980s. However, in his 1997 autobiography, Keegan later claimed that he was unimpressed with the boots and only wore them for the money.[3]

In the 1990s, Patrick stepped back from football in the face of the sponsorship battles between Nike and Adidas.

Since 2008, Patrick has been part of the Belgian Cortina Group.[4]

Frank De Bleeckere, a famous Belgian football referee, collaborated with Patrick in 2009 to promote a shoe especially for referees.[5]

Patrick has become also the official supplier of the referees associations Union Nationale des Arbitres de Football, in Belgium.

Clients

Patrick sponsors White Star Woluwe and Zulte Waregem in Belgium, Clermont Foot and US Boulogne in France, and in that last year also Chrobry Głogów, as well as Zagłębie Sosnowiec in Poland and in the last KF Drita in Kosovo, FC Minsk in Belarus; in this last year Patrick supplying Tauro FC in Panama and CD Victoria in Honduras and also USM El Harrach in Algeria.

In the 2019-20 season Patrick produced the kit for German football club Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.[6]

Products

Patrick manufactures football shoes, running shoes, cycling shoes, basketball shoes, tennis shoes and rugby shoes.

References
  1. Clémence Pouget (9 April 2009). "Les 'runnings' dans la course au rétro" (PDF). Le Figaro (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2010 – via PatrickHeritage.com.
  2. David Barroux (14 September 1994). "Les chaussures Patrick parient sur Papin" (PDF). La Tribune (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2010 – via PatrickHeritage.com.
  3. "What your kit says about you (and others)". FourFourTwo.com. 12 March 2010. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2020 – via Sky Sports.
  4. "About | SPROX.com". collection.sprox.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  5. "Patrick". Welovefootballshirts.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  6. "Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 19-20 Home & Away Kits Released". Footy Headlines. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
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