A little more than two weeks ago, 49ers players giddily slipped on T-shirts and caps proclaiming them NFC champions.

Sunday, those items, proclaiming the 49ers Super Bowl champions were, understandably, nowhere to be found after the team’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. After all, who wants victory apparel they didn’t earn?

You might be surprised.

Soon those items will be headed overseas to excited recipients who have no idea what a 49er is.

Good360, which bills itself “the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving,” will donate the apparel to a pre-approved overseas community of need, vetted by Good360’s partnering nonprofits.

This is the sixth year that Alexandria, Virginia-based Good360 has donated what they call unsaleable items from the NFL’s conference championships and the Super Bowl. (It took over from World View International, a humanitarian and aid organization.) It has the same agreement with Major League Baseball.

Last year $330 million in goods were distributed, according to Shari Rudolph, Good360’s Chief Development Officer.

“We understand here in the U.S. the sensitive nature of the goods. Overseas, nobody really understands what the NFL is. It’s really meaningful and transformational for the community,” Rudolph said. “The goods have a useful life in the hands of people and not in landfills. There’s a universal sense of gratitude and gratefulness.”

It will take about two months for donations from the 49ers locker room Sunday night to reach its destination, Rudolph said. It’s not unusual for donations to be directed to communities hit by unrest and natural disaster.

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Donations from the 2009 Super Bowl, in which the Arizona Cardinals were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers, went to El Salvador.

In 2010 (New Orleans Saints over the Indianapolis Colts) donations went to Haiti, which was recovering from an earthquake.

In 2011 (Green Bay Packers over the Pittsburgh Steelers) donations were directed to Zambia, Armenia, Nicaragua, and Romania.

Editor’s note: An earlier version said $330 million worth of championship-related apparel was donated last year by Good360, but that figure reflects its total contributions, not just NFL and MLB championship apparel.