Kappa is one of the leading brands in sportswear and lifestyle worldwide: a technical, nonconformist, colorful, flexible, competent, global and Italian brand. From sports gear to urban style: in 2016 – exactly 60 years from the brand’s creation - Kappa is back on the world’s street style scene thanks to its iconic products that caught the attention of international stylists and designers.  This spawned important collaborations with part of the “youth culture” influenced by Selena Gomez, Lewis Hamilton, and Kyle Jenner, who choose to wear Kappa, thus providing inspiration to millions of followers, and once more bringing the brand in the limelight of a new contemporary aesthetics. Kappa is the official supplier of kits for players, referees and associations for many leading football, rugby league, basketball, golf, baseball, boxing, ice hockey, rugby union, skiing & eSPorts teams & clubs. On 28 May 2020, the 2021 Rugby League World Cup announced that Kappa had been selected as the official apparel sponsor of the tournament, which will include the brand supplying kit for all RLWC2021 match officials, volunteers and staff.