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Barcelona shirt sponsors through the years

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17 Nov 2016
Go to: Shakira and Gerard Pique find Barcelona a new shirt sponsor
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blaugrana shirts will feature Japanese online shopping firm Rakuten

Messi 2006

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partly because of its significance to the Catalan independence movement

Messi 2009

From 2006 to 2011 the shirt carried the Unicef logo, but it was the club that paid the charity for the privilege

Messi 2011

€33.5m a year deal with the Gulf state of Qatar.

Barcelona

The deal with Qatar has not been renewed after Josep Maria Bartomeu, the current Barcelona president,  reportedly suggested that a worsening of the "social and political" situation in the country had led the club to question its commercial relationship with the Gulf State

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