Saints Football and AlphaSights announce sponsorship hat-trick
The University of St Andrews Football Club – Saints Football – has renewed its Sport Sponsorship deal with leading information services firm, AlphaSights, extending the partnership into a third successive season.
AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand and one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, with offices across the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. As well as sponsoring Saints Sport Football Club, the company works with the University Careers Centre offering Internships, Insight Days, and entry-level Associate roles. The fast-paced, Associate role is a springboard for ambitious graduates who want to embark on a fast-track commercial career.
AlphaSights Senior Vice-President for their European talent operations, Sascha Schermer, commented: “AlphaSights has welcomed many University of St. Andrews graduates over the past few years and we are delighted to continue our close collaboration as an official sponsor of their Football Club. AlphaSights and the university share many values, and we believe that sports clubs are a perfect opportunity to live and showcase these values. We’re looking forward to supporting the Football Club and wish them the best of luck for the season!”
Saints Football is one of the University’s leading sports clubs, with Women’s football one of eight performance teams recognised by the Performance Sport programme. Led by Director of Football Stuart Milne, the club offers opportunities to play at a performance, competitive and recreational level and is one of the largest sports clubs in St Andrews. Club Presidents Fabian Thies and Kate Lockyer commented: “We are pleased to announce that our partnership with Alphasights has been renewed for a third year running!! On the pitch their support has enabled us to further improve our programme through playing kit and video analysis equipment. Off the pitch, past and present players have been able to make connections that lead to work experience within their company. As a club we are excited to continue to strengthen our connection and explore new opportunities.”
The club supports seven competitive men’s teams and three competitive women’s teams that compete in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) league and cup competitions across the country throughout the academic year. During the 2023-2024 season, the Women’s Football Performance Squad reached new heights by winning the BUCS Premier North league at their first attempt, following promotion from the Scottish national league the previous year. They went on to secure the Scottish Student Sport #SheCanSheWill Cup for the third year in a row, rounding off a very successful season. The Men’s 1st Team won the BUCS Scottish Tier 2 league, gaining promotion into the top Scottish league for 2024-25, and finished the season by claiming their third Scottish Student Sport Conference Cup title in four years.
The season also saw the Men’s 3rd team win their respective BUCS league and gain promotion, the Men’s Amateur team gain promotion to the Premier League within the Kingdom of Fife Football Association, and 4 men and 7 women’s players called up to the Scottish Student Sport national squads. Off the field, two members of the club travelled to Zambia as part of the University’s international volunteer programme, Volunteer Zambia.
Stuart Milne, Saints Sport Director of Football, said: “I am delighted that we will once again be working with Morven and the team from AlphaSights. Their partnership with us has led to much success on and off the pitch in recent seasons for both parties and we look forward to continuing that going forward. Thank you to all involved for making this partnership possible again for the new season.”
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Saints Sport manages all sport and fitness related activities, services and facilities at the University of St Andrews.
Saints Sport at the University of St Andrews:
https://sport.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
https://sport.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/performance/
https://sport.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/partner-with-us/partners/
AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand and one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, with offices across the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. As well as sponsoring Saints Sport Football Club, the company works with the University Careers Centre offering Internships, Insight Days, and entry-level Associate roles. The fast-paced, Associate role is a springboard for ambitious graduates who want to embark on a fast-track commercial career.
British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the national governing body for Higher Education (HE) sport in the UK, a membership organisation, and a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.