{"id":1168547,"date":"2026-08-25T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1168547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:03:35","slug":"historic-club-leeds-in-encrypted-message-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1168547\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Historic\u2019 club Leeds in encrypted message deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/category\/mediatech\/\" class=\"post-categories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MediaTech<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/category\/sporttech\/\" class=\"post-categories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SportTech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leeds United has welcomed KChat, an encrypted messaging and community platform, as its Official Sleeve Partner for the 2026\/27 Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>The logo made its debut on the Leeds shirt in the 1-0 opening-day away win at Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will also see additional supporter initiatives that will be announced across its duration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vpT8NqicdS\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/2026-leeds-digital-festival-programme-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Leeds Digital Festival programme revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jocelyn Austria, general manager at KChat, said: \u201cThis partnership is an important milestone for KChat, as we prepare for our public launch and we are proud to take this journey with one of English football\u2019s most historic clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeeds United\u2019s fans represent exactly what inspires our platform \u2013 people connected through a shared passion, meaningful conversation and a strong sense of community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phil Hardman, partnerships Director for Leeds United, added: \u201cWe are really pleased to welcome KChat as our Official Sleeve Partner for the 2026\/27 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the club continues to grow both on and off the pitch, we are proud to partner with an innovative technology company that shares our commitment in bringing people together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to creating exciting experiences for our supporters in the seasons ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"E6eGJOrV4o\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesscloud.co.uk\/news\/hero-welcomed-back-by-leeds-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Hero welcomed back by Leeds United<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MediaTechSportTech Leeds United has welcomed KChat, an encrypted messaging and community platform, as its Official Sleeve Partner for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1168548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,25554,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-1168547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-businesscloud","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117156289531095776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}