Marex Group has entered into a multi-year Principal Partnership with Nottingham Forest Football Club, securing front-of-shirt sponsorship rights across the club’s senior men’s football, women’s football and netball teams. The agreement represents a major brand investment by Marex as the global financial services company looks to increase awareness of its expanding capabilities beyond its historical roots in commodities. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
Under the agreement, Marex branding will appear on Nottingham Forest men’s and women’s playing shirts and replica kits.
The Marex brand will also feature on the dresses worn by Nottingham Forest’s netball team.
Marex branding will be displayed prominently at the City Ground on matchdays and across Nottingham Forest’s digital platforms throughout the 2026/27 season and beyond.
Marex will additionally become Nottingham Forest’s Global Markets Partner.
As part of that relationship, Marex will serve as the club’s exclusive provider of foreign exchange and other financial services.
The partnership gives Marex exposure through one of the world’s most widely followed sports as the company highlights its evolution into a diversified global financial services platform.
Marex provides market access, infrastructure services and liquidity across global commodity and financial markets.
Its operations span four primary areas: Clearing, Agency and Execution, Market Making, and Hedging and Investment Solutions.
The company has access to more than 60 exchanges and maintains a significant presence across metals, energy and agricultural markets.
Marex serves more than 3,400 active clients, including commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.
The company operates more than 50 offices worldwide and has more than 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The Nottingham Forest partnership is intended to help expose that broader platform to a larger international audience.
Nottingham Forest is one of the oldest football clubs in the world and one of only four English clubs to have won the European Cup at least twice.
Marex said the club’s history, international following and ambition to compete at the highest levels of English and European football align with its own growth strategy.
The sponsorship also contains a broader initiative focused on women in financial services.
Marex said its support of Nottingham Forest’s women’s team is an important part of the partnership as the company works to encourage more women to pursue careers in finance.
Marex and Nottingham Forest plan to jointly raise awareness of career opportunities for women across the financial services industry.
The organizations also intend to develop initiatives to improve financial literacy within the community.
For Marex, the agreement represents another step in its transition from a business historically associated primarily with commodities into a broader financial services company serving clients across global markets.
The partnership gives the company a high-profile consumer-facing platform while simultaneously establishing a commercial relationship with Nottingham Forest through the provision of foreign exchange and other financial services.
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“At Marex we have built our global business by developing trusted, long-term relationships with our clients and growing alongside them. Our partnership with Nottingham Forest, a team with a proud heritage and a clear determination to compete at the highest level, will introduce Marex and our broad capabilities to an even wider global audience.”
“We are genuinely excited by the opportunity to work with Forest and support their goals, just as we support our clients in achieving theirs. High performance, ambition and teamwork unite our organizations and provide a strong foundation for this partnership. This marks an important step in Marex’s continued development, and we look forward to what we can achieve together.”
Ian Lowitt, Chief Executive of Marex
“We are delighted to welcome Marex as our new Front of Shirt partner. Marex is an ambitious, global business with a strong reputation for excellence and performance, and those qualities reflect our own ambitions for Nottingham Forest.”
“This partnership is another important step in the continued growth of our Club, and we look forward to working together and building a successful relationship.”
Evangelos Marinakis, Owner of Nottingham Forest
