Swansea City FC become first Premier League team to produce commemorative Chinese New Year shirt

February 7 2018, Swansea –Swansea City have become the first Premier League club to produce a commemorative shirt to celebrate Chinese New Year 2018 which will be worn by the team.

Working in collaboration with shirt sponsor LeTou, the special jersey featuresChinese charactersand will be worn in Swansea’s crucial Premier League fixture against Burnley on Saturday February 10.

Players including England striker Tammy Abraham, Portuguese midfielder Renato Sanches and South Korean international Ki Sung-yeung have taken part in Chinese cooking and language lessons as part of the 2018 celebrations.

China is a huge target audience for the Premier League, with hundreds of millions of fans watching games every week and there is a strong Chinese community in Swansea.