Tottenham are suing Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe’s company INEOS. Spurs have filed High Court proceedings against the British billionaire’s company over a terminated sponsorship agreement. According to court records, the north London club has filed a commercial claim against Ineos Automotive on Thursday.
It is claimed Spurs are taking High Court legal action against Ratcliffe’s attempts to walk away from a sponsorship agreement between Ineos and the club.
Tottenham and Ineos first collaborated 2020 when the chemicals firm became the club’s official hand sanitiser supplier during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spurs then agreed a five-year deal with Ineos in 2022 – prior to Ratcliffe’s purchase of a minority stake in Manchester United. The agreement was for Ineos Grenadier to become the club’s official 4×4 vehicle partner, with the company’s logo adorning the dugout and bench seats at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
An Ineos statement read: “Ineos Automotive has been a partner of Tottenham Hotspur since 2022, expanding on a partnership agreement that Ineos Group had in place with the club since 2020. We have a contractual right to terminate our partnership contract and in December 2024 exercised that right.”
In March it was announced Ineos had reached a settlement with New Zealand Rugby in relation to a sponsorship deal. The previous month, NZR had said it had launched legal proceedings against Ineos after alleging that the first instalment of 2025 sponsorship money due under a six-year agreement struck in 2021 had not been paid.
