{"id":3949,"date":"2026-07-22T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:38:12","slug":"clevelands-wnba-team-doesnt-play-until-2028-but-progressive-just-scored-jersey-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland\u2019s WNBA team doesn\u2019t play until 2028 but Progressive just scored jersey sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The franchise announced on Tuesday that Progressive Insurance will be the jersey patch sponsor. It will also be the first time in the WNBA that a sponsor has bought both spots on a jersey. Teams are allowed to sell jersey patch placement on the upper left corner of uniforms as well as a larger spot under the numbers on the front of the jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3947\">U.N. reports Southeast Asia\u2019s criminal networks are using tech to build a global illicit economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Mercury were the first WNBA team to have a jersey sponsor in 2009.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have a smaller partnership with Chicago that we announced a couple months ago, but this one was special to us,\u201d said Mari Pumarejo, Progressive\u2019s chief marketing officer. \u201cOnce we heard that the WNBA was going to bring a team to Cleveland, it was a good fit for us and we kept our ears open for an opportunity to learn more about it. And once we met (president of business operations) Allison (Howard) and the team, we just knew that our values matched and that we could have the kind of partnership where we could help support women\u2019s sports, the community and city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Progressive is based in Cleveland with its corporate headquarters in suburban Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The company has had a naming rights agreement for Cleveland\u2019s baseball stadium since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive CEO Tricia Griffith is also an investor in the Cleveland Astra, a women\u2019s soccer team that is expected to begin playing in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is another building block since Cleveland was granted an expansion team on June 30, 2025. The Cleveland Rockers were one of the original franchises when the WNBA started in 1997, but folded in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3945\">Trump says \u2018we\u2019re gonna help\u2019 Lebanon as he moves to restore direct flights after four-decade hiatus<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the past year, Cleveland has had 9,000 deposits for season tickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has continued to grow. We were going to fully stand up the team until closer to about two years out, but we started to listen to the community right away and they wanted to know more and more of how we were going to treat this team,\u201d Howard said. \u201cWe are definitely taking our time to make sure that we\u2019re doing it right. But we\u2019re excited to continue to take the feedback from people and be able to participate and do a lot of listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The announcement of the jersey sponsor is the first of many over the next 12 months. The team name is expected to be announced sometime in the next couple months. Dan Gilbert\u2019s Rock Entertainment Group, the team\u2019s owner, has also announced \u201ca special event\u201d for Aug. 4 at Rocket Arena.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI give so much credit to the teams around the league that have not had two to three years because what we have been able to do is go on a listening tour and meet all of these new people and really hear their stories. And one thing in women\u2019s sports is it is very emotional for a lot of people,\u201d Howard said. \u201cPeople come up to me and will tell me a story of having to drive or having to fly hours away to the closest women\u2019s basketball game, even if it was college and how hard it has been to be a fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3943\">George Soros never signed the Giving Pledge. He\u2019s given away more of his fortune than the billionaires who did<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA:\u00a0https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The insurer will be the first company in WNBA history to secure both jersey patch placements on a team uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cleveland\u2019s WNBA team doesn\u2019t play until 2028 but Progressive just scored jersey sponsorship - 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