Five-time cham­pi­ons and de­fend­ing ti­tle­hold­ers Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) have se­cured ma­jor back­ing for the up­com­ing Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) sea­son, of­fi­cial­ly lock­ing in bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) as a key spon­sor.

​The his­toric part­ner­ship was sealed on Tues­day at a sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain, mark­ing the en­er­gy gi­ant’s first-ever na­tion­al-lev­el sports spon­sor­ship of this scale.

​TKR en­ter the 2026 cam­paign rid­ing high as the CPL's most suc­cess­ful fran­chise, aim­ing to add a sixth star to their chest. The al­liance with bpTT brings pow­er­ful lo­cal back­ing to the team as they pre­pare to bat­tle the re­gion’s best on crick­et’s biggest re­gion­al stage.

​"bpTT is com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing sport, cul­ture and na­tion­al pride in T&T," said David Camp­bell, Pres­i­dent of bp Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. "We are ho­n­oured to come on board as a spon­sor of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers. TKR’s suc­cess is based on ded­i­ca­tion and a com­mit­ment to ex­cel­lence–qual­i­ties that align to our val­ues at bp. We are look­ing for­ward to ac­com­pa­ny­ing TKR on their jour­ney to de­fend their CPL ti­tle."

​For bpTT, the deal marks a bold ex­pan­sion of its sports in­vest­ment strat­e­gy. The spon­sor­ship builds on bpTT’s long-stand­ing sup­port for sport, par­tic­u­lar­ly in their fence­line com­mu­ni­ty of Ma­yaro and Guayagua­yare, and rep­re­sents an ex­pan­sion of that com­mit­ment to a wider na­tion­al plat­form.

​Co­in­cid­ing with bpTT’s 65th an­niver­sary of op­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go, com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives not­ed that part­ner­ing with TKR re­flects six and a half decades of shared val­ues, pas­sion, and na­tion­al pride.

With the 2026 CPL sea­son fast ap­proach­ing, the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons now have the back­ing of one of the coun­try's biggest cor­po­rate gi­ants as they set their sights on back-to-back glo­ry.