BK8 Sponsorships and Partners
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BK8.io is the crypto casino from BK8, and sponsorship is one of the main ways the BK8 name reaches fans away from the platform itself: on the grid in MotoGP, on the court in badminton, and on the shirt in football. This page keeps two lists apart. The first covers the partnerships that are current, meaning a dated announcement still in force confirms them. The second covers the football deals BK8 has held in the past, each announced for a set season, with the season it covered and what has happened since.
Current partners
A partnership is listed as current here only when a public announcement from the past year confirms the deal and its term, and that term has not yet ended. Two meet that test at the time of writing, one in MotoGP and one in badminton, and each has a public announcement behind it.
MotoGP: Gresini Racing
BK8 News, the BK8 sports news brand, became title sponsor of Gresini Racing's MotoGP team in an announcement made in February 2025, and the team has raced as BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP ever since. The sponsorship was announced to run across the 2025 and 2026 seasons, and the branding covers the Ducati Desmosedici GP24 bikes, the riders' suits, the team uniforms and the garage panels. The team presented its 2026 livery and line-up under the same title sponsorship in January 2026, ahead of pre-season testing, and a separate technical agreement between Gresini Racing and Ducati Corse is confirmed to continue past 2026. No source states a BK8 term beyond the 2026 season, so this site does not claim one.
How the deal was announced, what the team name change means and where the branding sits on the bikes are covered in the story of the BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP partnership.
Badminton: the BWF
BK8 has been the BWF's official betting partner for its major championships since an announcement in April 2025, which the BWF said runs through 2026. It covered the 2025 Sudirman Cup Finals in Xiamen and the 2025 World Championships in Paris, and the BWF's own announcement adds the 2026 Thomas and Uber Cup Finals and the 2026 World Championships to the same deal. BK8 also says it was the Official Partner of the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2025 in Hangzhou, as announced by BK8 through a Newsfile Corp release on 23 April 2025; that claim comes from BK8 alone, and the 2025 edition has now been played, so it sits outside the current list.
Past football partnerships
Football has been the largest part of BK8's sponsorship history, with nine clubs across two countries, but none of those deals is confirmed as current. Each was announced for a set season, the latest of them ended with the 2023/24 season, and no renewal has been announced since. Aston Villa's principal partnership, announced in June 2023 as a three-year deal, lasted a single season on the shirt: on 23 April 2024 the club named Betano as its front-of-shirt partner from 2024/25, and SportsPro reported that Betano would replace BK8. bk8.io's own partners strip still showed all nine club badges when this site checked it on 18 September 2026, but a badge on a partners strip is not a dated announcement, so the table below gives each deal the season its announcement covered and nothing more.
| Club | Partnership title (as announced) | Seasons covered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Villa | Principal and Front of Shirt Partner | 2023/24 | Ended; Betano took the shirt front from 2024/25 |
| Burnley | Official Training Wear Partner | 2022/23 and 2023/24 | No renewal announced after July 2023 |
| Crystal Palace | "Official Asian Betting Sponsor" | 2022/23 | Single season; no renewal announced |
| Huddersfield Town | Global betting partner; women's team shirt sponsor | 2021/22 and 2022/23 | No renewal announced after August 2022 |
| Valencia CF | "Official Asian Betting Partner" | 2021/22 | Single season; no renewal announced |
| Athletic Club | "Official Asian Betting Partner" | 2021/22 | Single season; no renewal announced |
| Villarreal CF | "Official Asian Betting Partner" | 2021/22 | Single season; no renewal announced |
| Elche CF | "Official Asian Betting Partner" | 2021/22 | Single season; no renewal announced |
| RCD Mallorca | "Official Asian Betting Partner" | 2021/22 | Single season; no renewal announced |
Among Premier League and Championship clubs, BK8 became Burnley's Official Training Wear Partner in August 2022, renewed in July 2023 for one more season; was named Crystal Palace's "Official Asian Betting Sponsor" for the 2022/23 season; and became Huddersfield Town's global betting partner in December 2021, extended in August 2022 to include the women's team's shirt. In Spain, BK8 became "Official Asian Betting Partner" of five LaLiga clubs together in August 2021: Valencia CF, Athletic Club, Villarreal CF, Elche CF and RCD Mallorca, all for the 2021/22 season.
Why sport?
Sponsorship puts the BK8 name in front of sports audiences a casino advert alone would not reach: motorsport fans following MotoGP, badminton followers at the BWF's biggest events, and, while the club deals ran, football supporters in two different countries. Those audiences overlap with the sports the BK8.io sportsbook itself covers, so a fan who already recognises the BK8 name from a livery or a shirt finds the same brand again on BK8.io. Taken together, the sponsorships on this page cover motor racing, an Olympic racket sport and two of Europe's best-known domestic football pyramids, which is a wide spread for one brand to have held across such different audiences.
Sources
- Gresini Racing: BK8 News is the new title sponsor
- MotoGP.com: BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP unveil 2026 colours
- BWF: official betting partnership announcement
- Newsfile Corp: BK8 and the BWF Major Championships 2025
- fcbusiness.co.uk: Aston Villa signs BK8 as principal partner
- SportsPro: Aston Villa confirm new Betano front-of-shirt sponsorship (23 April 2024)
- SportsMint Media: Crystal Palace sponsorship announcement
- GamblingTV: BK8 and Burnley FC and Huddersfield Town
- fcbusiness.co.uk: five LaLiga club deals
Frequently asked questions
Which BK8 sponsorships are current?
Two at the time of writing: BK8 News as title sponsor of Gresini Racing's MotoGP team for the 2025 and 2026 seasons, and BK8 as the BWF's official betting partner for its major championships through 2026. Both rest on dated announcements that are still in force.
Who does BK8 sponsor in MotoGP?
BK8 News is the title sponsor of Gresini Racing's MotoGP team, which has raced as BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP since the sponsorship was announced in February 2025, running through the 2026 season.
Which badminton events does BK8 sponsor?
BK8 has been the BWF's official betting partner since April 2025, covering the 2025 Sudirman Cup Finals, the 2025 World Championships and, according to the BWF, the 2026 Thomas and Uber Cup Finals and the 2026 World Championships.
Which football clubs has BK8 partnered with?
Aston Villa (2023/24), Burnley (2022/23 and 2023/24), Crystal Palace (2022/23) and Huddersfield Town (2021/22 and 2022/23), plus Valencia CF, Athletic Club, Villarreal CF, Elche CF and RCD Mallorca (2021/22). Each deal was announced for a set season and none has a renewal on record, so this site lists them as past partnerships.