The announcement was made on Wednesday after months of negotiations and in the face of a significant campaign from climate groups for the Dockers to dump Woodside as the club’s sponsor.
Woodside and the Fremantle Dockers will extend their sponsorship deal for another two years.
He said Woodside had helped the club establish its first women’s program in 2017 and develop its reconciliation action plan, and lauded the gas giant’s efforts to curb climate change. Woodside were keen to keep their longstanding relationship with the Dockers, with the company’s chief executive Meg O’Neill even addressing the playing group about climate change earlier this year.“We are committed to partnerships that will strengthen the health, education and well-being of the places where we live and work. Our renewed partnership with the Dockers will make a genuine difference to communities in Western Australia,” she said.
Speaking on behalf of the members who pushed for the deal to be scrapped Greenpeace campaigner Sophie McNeill said it was gutting that the Dockers had chosen Woodside and its shareholders over the best interest of the team.“This is about more than football, it’s about being on the right side of history and Freo have failed that test.
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