SIS Pitches has announced a new partnership with football club Oxford City.

The side - which plays in Vanarama National League South, the sixth tier of English football - will carry the name of the Cumbrian firm on the front of their home and away shirts.

This deal will also see the company based at the Glasson Industrial Estate in Maryport provide a maintenance package for the club, known locally as 'The City', which has a new SISTurf 3G pitch at its Marsh Lane ground in Oxford.

It was christened by the team with a game against local rivals Oxford United, attended by a record crowd of 2,276 fans.

This pitch took 11 weeks to complete and included removal of the natural turf pitch, the installation of the brand new surface and new crowd barriers.

Matthew Streeter, contracts manager at SIS Pitches, said: “We are very proud to become the main partner sponsor at Oxford City and to have worked on this project.

“We have seen how a brand new facility like this can transform clubs in non league football and provide substantial benefits for the local community but also for the commercial benefit of the club and we have no doubt it will do the same for Oxford City and we look forward to playing a continued role in the utilisation of the project.

The City's director of football Justin Merritt said: “It’s a big transformation and we are grateful to our main partner SIS Pitches for all of their support on the fantastic project.

“The players turned up for the first time a few weeks ago and were amazed at how it looked and there was a lot of excitement about it. To have a record crowd on the first game played on the 3G surface is unbelievable.

He added: “It’s not just the first team, it’s everybody – the junior team, the disability team – we want to make a massive push to get the club on its rightful standing.”

SIS Pitches is also set to install its SISGrass product at both the Mordovia Arena and Samara Arena later this year, making them the fifth and sixth high profile stadiums in Russia respectively to receive this product ahead of the World Cup there next year.

This news comes after the company also broke its own record for returfing football pitches at Qatar’s Khalifa International Stadium, one of the stadiums to be used at the 2022 World Cup, and fewer than two months after the company was hit by a dramatic fire, which saw the group’s storage warehouse burn down, leaving its factory and offices unaffected.