The National Lacrosse League, North America’s leading group for field hockey, has signed a new contract with Castore, a Manchester, England-based clothing company, to make it the league’s performance apparel maker.
This marks Castore’s first league-wide clothing deal with a North American sporting club. This Sunday at the NLL review, Castore will hand out jerseys and team uniforms for the 2024-25 time. The NLL’s first league-wide even partnership since 2006 and 2013, respectively, were represented by Reebok from 2006 through 2013, but specific teams had already signed their individual uniform contracts in the years that followed.
Castore, who was founded by brothers Tom and Phil Beahon in 2015, is perhaps best known for outfitting the Formula 1 Red Bull and McLaren groups, alliances that have gained more attention over the years owing to Max Verstappen’s reigning F1 victory and the popularity of the sport’s soaring popularity.

” It is difficult to hyperbolize the position of the NLL and Castore’s philosophy and opponent mentality”, NLL division director Brett Frood said in a speech. ” Tom and Phil have been unrelenting in pushing limitations, boosting teams and sports, and creating premium materials. We are all working together to use this relationship as a laboratory for innovation and disruption, and to take our particular manufacturers to new heights.
Castore received some criticism for how well its uniforms performed last drop, especially from Aston Villa’s people’s and children’s clubs, which terminated their contract with the business in January. Yet, the company continues its alliances with multiple sport venues, including the Premier League’s Everton and Bundesliga hero Bayer Leverkusen. It even provides clothes for Hendrick Motorsports, USA Rugby and the men’s and women’s regional cricket team for England and Wales.
One of Castore’s investors is volleyball star Andy Murray, who wore the company’s clothes from 2019 until calling it a job next month at the Paris Olympics.
” We’re really happy to get supplying our high-performance clothing league-wide and are excited about the opportunities this engagement offers, for even more teams and individual players to experience the superior quality and performance of Castore,” Tom Beahon said in a statement.
The NLL, which opened its doors in 1987, is at a crossroads because it wants to appeal to more fans, especially those who do n’t frequent the Eastern seaboard’s well-worn markets. The league frequently claims that its gameplay plays similarly to the NBA but resembles the NHL. The NLL hopes that the crossover of the most well-known indoor leagues continues to entice newcomers to the sport by branding itself as” the next major league.”
Nine of its 15 teams are in the U. S. while the remaining six are in Canada, including the Ottawa Black Bears, who relocated from New York’s Long Island ahead of the upcoming season. Last week, the league had a dispersal draft after the shuttering of Dallas-Fort Worth’s franchise, the Panther City Lacrosse Club.