Passion Knows no Gender: Sponsors of Stockholm’s Team Göta Traneberg
Our long-term partnership with Stockholm’s youth ice hockey team Göta Traneberg aims to support a healthy and vibrant future for the local youth by connecting them with a sport that brings them joy while teaching valuable life skills of team building, responsibility, and leadership. Ice hockey, a sport in which Sweden has excelled for many years, is attracting a growing number of female players. However, there are relatively few girls and women ice hockey clubs and competitions.
Göta Traneberg, together with Ekerö IK and Hässelby/Källvesta, is creating a team—Team Västerort—to participate in the first girls' junior hockey league in Stockholm. As we remain committed to harnessing the power of sports to help our children reach their greatest potential and build an equal playing field for all, we welcome you to join us as our colleagues, partners, and customers in cheering for the team’s success in their new home – The HCLTech Arena.
“We have been long-term partners of GötaTraneberg and Team Västerort's women junior hockey team. Far from standing still in its 120th year, the club has been making important investments to drive inclusion, cooperation and opportunities for young people. We are proud to play a part in this movement providing valuable team building, responsibility and leadership skills to put young people on the path to a healthy, vibrant future. We look forward to cheering on the team as they level the playing field for all and shoot for success in their home at HCLTech ARENA over the next three seasons,” says Pankaj Tagra, Corporate Vice President and Nordic and DACH Head, HCLTech.
“To work with the IT company HCLTech to ensure that our long-term investment in as many people as possible, for as long as possible, feels incredibly good. The sponsorship means, among other things, that we can invest in female coaches and our girls can continue to play ice hockey in a natural age ladder from children and youth level to junior level and then calmly take the step up to senior level”, says Jörgen Sigvardsson, chairman of GötaTraneberg IK.