Ensign sponsor Hornets for the 2017 season

Analyst Steve Wordsworth, first team players Chris Riley and Jono Smith and head coach Alan Kilshaw show off the Ensign logo on the 2017 home shirt

Building company Ensign has agreed a deal to sponsor Rochdale Hornets for the 2017 season.

Their logo will appear on the back of the 2017 home shirt designed by Surridge Sport, which combines the club’s traditional colours of red, white and blue with a gold trim to celebrate the League One title win.

Hornets chairman Mark Wynn is delighted to have the company on board and is looking forward to working with them during next season, when the club will compete in the Kingstone Press Championship.

He said: “On behalf of Rochdale Hornets I would like to thank Ensign for joining the club as shirt sponsors for the 2017 season.

“They are a great company who recently picked up the LABC Building Excellence Award for the North West region which goes to show the brilliant work they are doing at the moment.

“After picking up an ‘award’ of our own in France by beating Toulouse in the League One Promotion Final it is great that we can team up with another successful entity.

“Here’s to hoping that 2017 can be just as successful for us both.”