Ftbpro Signs Lma Media Partnership

The League Managers Association has announced the appointment of fan-generated football media brand FTBpro as its new Online Media Partner.

In its new role FTBpro.com, which has over 1,400 contributors and participation from over four million users, will be provided with unique access to the LMA and its members, including managers past and present from the Barclays Premier League.  

The partnership aims to bring football fans from all over the world closer to the top of the game in England, with exclusive interviews, content and live training sessions delivered by the LMA and its members, as well as giving the best of FTBpro’s active contributors the chance to meet and interview some of the leading managers in the game. 

FTBpro.com enables fans to publish journalistic content on the platform’s website and mobile apps as well as partner sites including the likes of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail Online and MSN. 

FTBpro contributors publish over 300 daily articles in English, Spanish, German and Italian, which deliver over 30 million pageviews every month. Meanwhile, the company’s five-star rated mobile app has topped the sports category in app stores across Europe, Asia and South America since launching earlier this summer.

Asaf Peled, founder and CEO of FTBpro, said: ‘We are delighted to have been selected as the Online Media Partner of the LMA, and view it as a significant endorsement of our loyal contributor base.  Our best contributors now have the opportunity to interview the greatest managers in football, and can share the exclusive video content from those interviews with millions of fans utilizing FTBpro’s global reach.’ 

‘Together with our partners at the LMA, we will continue to look for creative ways to connect football managers at the top of their game with their avid fan communities.’

Richard Bevan, CEO of the LMA, added: ‘We are delighted to welcome FTBpro as a new partner of the LMA. At the LMA we are always looking for new and innovative ways to connect our members, some of the biggest names in the game, to football fans around the world.  Through our new partnership with FTBpro the LMA and its members look forward to delivering unique insight into the game in England, to a truly global audience.’