A sport culture practice · Central Europe and the Francophone markets

Europe's richest sport cultures are its least commercialised.

Legia's Żyleta, Baník's ultras, Raja's songs. Decades of banners, typography and local myth, and almost none of it made into anything. I find the fit between a property and a brand, build the activation, and produce the thing that carries it.

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The house

Como 1907 plays in a town of 84,000 people. It hired a fashion designer as chief brand officer, sold out a Rhude kit, rebuilt its feed around the lake rather than the football, and now takes around 40% of its ticketing revenue from international visitors. It had to manufacture a lifestyle out of scenery.

Legia has the Żyleta. Widzew, Ruch Chorzów and Baník Ostrava have decades of banners, songs and typography built by their own supporters. Hajduk, Partizan and Raja have fan cultures that travel further than their results. None of it is product. These clubs never had to invent anything, and have sold almost nothing they already own.

The reason is not laziness. Nobody inside the club sees it as product, and nobody outside can read it. The material is local and linguistic: the chants, the fanzines, the archive, the slang, which musicians carry weight in that city. A London agency cannot brief that out.

It fails from the other side too. A coffee roaster, a fashion label or an entertainment platform that wants to be near this ends up buying logo placement, because nobody can tell them what the culture actually is or which part of it is free to use.

I read it, and I have made kit inside a global brand's supply chain. That combination is the practice. Agencies execute on brief. Consultancies stop at the recommendation.

A note from the founder

Dawid Piotrowski — founder

I watched the same gap for six years. Then I built the bridge.

Born and raised in Brussels. Six years in football, four of them on the brand and retail side of the table at adidas and Unisport, across Central and Eastern Europe. At adidas I ran kit design programmes end to end for three properties: Legia Warszawa Ladies, the Legia AMP team and the Latvian Football Federation. Brief, design approval, production, launch.

In every one of those programmes, the crest went on the shirt and everything the supporters had built stayed in the stands.

Nobody's job is to fix that. The global agencies cover the region from London, and the local agencies have rarely sat inside a club's commercial department. Neither has made a garment. I’ve done both, in two languages. I wrote my MSc thesis on fashion’s influence on football, which is why the cultural side and the product side are the same job.

I work in the languages the material is written in. Polish and French natively, which covers most of the territory. The research for this is forums, fanzines, club archives and local press, none of which survives translation.

MOST is the Polish word for bridge.

6 yrs in football: Legia Warszawa academy, adidas, Unisport

3 kit programmes run end to end: Legia Ladies, Legia AMP, the Latvian FA

5 rights holders managed across the CEE market, from Greece to Latvia

Services

Research first. Then the thing that carries it.

Every engagement starts with a written deliverable. What follows depends on how far you want to take it.

€4,000

The Fit

Fixed fee. Two to four weeks. A written document, delivered whether or not anything comes of it. It is commissioned from either side of the same question.

From a propertyWhat you own culturally, who should be attached to it, and what your existing rights actually allow.
From a brandWhich property fits what you sell, what it should cost, and who is contractually free to carry it.

"Most sponsorships are sold once the shirt already has a shape. This maps the opportunity before that shape exists."

After the fit

The activation, the product, the market.

Quoted case by case. Introductions and representation live here, under a written mandate with defined targets and a defined time window. A "no" from a target is a normal outcome, reported as soon as it happens.

The ActivationThe idea itself, and the partners who deliver it. Which label, which musician, which artist, in what order and why, with the introductions made.
The ProductDesign, tech pack, materials, supplier, costing, delivery. The part neither side can usually do alone. Fee plus a royalty point.
The MarketIt worked in one country. Which markets it travels to, who distributes it there, which partner carries it, and what the rights cost in each.

Published work

One dossier, in the open.

Raja Club Athletic, Casablanca · November 2026

Culture & Product Dossier No. 01

What the club owns, what is already licensed to somebody else, who should be attached to it, and what the first product should be. Nine pages, unsolicited, including a section listing what I could not verify. Exactly what a commissioned Fit looks like.

Read the dossier →

Where I work

Two primary markets.

These are the places whose sport culture can be read without a translator, which is also the list of places this practice can work. Two markets are primary. Central & Eastern Europe, where I have on-the-ground commercial experience, native Polish and an existing network inside clubs, brands and agencies. Francophone Europe and North Africa, grounded in a Brussels upbringing, native French and Belgian citizenship.

MOST covers the markets it knows from the inside, and declines the ones it does not.

Central & Eastern EuropePrimary: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Croatia

FrancophonePrimary: France, Belgium, Morocco, West Africa

Western EuropeAs mandated, where the brief leads

Market notes — published every two weeks

How I think, in public.

Sponsorship and market entry

No. 09 — October 2026

Sixteen years, then a better offer

Orlen's deal lapsed, Biedronka left after sixteen years, and the Polish federation published a list of what it had lost. Lidl replaced one of them.

No. 08 — September 2026

The Poles were added value

Polish media read the XTB deal at Porto as a national moment. The man who signed it says the three Polish internationals were a bonus.

No. 06 — September 2026

The expensive seats went first

UEFA removed a 32-year sponsor, doubled the contract length and rebuilt the table less than a year before a new cycle.

Football and culture

No. 04 — August 2026

Europe's richest sport cultures are its least commercialised.

I watched the same gap for six years. Then I built the bridge.