Gazprom to sponsor Antalyaspor FC - Bloomberg

Bloomberg reports that by the end of Putin's visit to Turkey, the

Russian gas corporation Gazprom could become the main sponsor of

the Turkish football team Antalyaspor.

At the moment Gazprom is actively investing in several sports

clubs. Thus, the gas giant has a controlling stake in the football

club Zenit (St. Petersburg). The company is also the title sponsor

of Schalke 04  in the German Bundesliga, as well as the volleyball

club Zenit-Kazan. Since November 2010, Gazprom has become a

partner of Volga FC (Nizhny Novgorod), as well as the football club

Sakhalin from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In addition, the company is

sponsoring Crvena Zvezda (Belgrade, Serbia) and London's Chelsea.