The Aramco FIFA sponsorship deal has prompted a coalition of supporters groups to speak out against the partnership between FIFA and the Saudi state oil company. If your supporters group also wants to sign on, you can do that here.

A Call to FIFA to End the Aramco FIFA Sponsorship Deal

“We, the undersigned football supporters’ groups, love this game. We love the joy, pride and passion that make football special and know we share those feelings with billions of others around the world.

The World Cup is the ultimate celebration of our sport. FIFA must ensure that it is a worthy showcase of the best of football and its values, for all those watching on globally. But instead, in 2026, FIFA has handed Saudi state oil company Aramco the privilege of promoting itself as a major tournament sponsor. At a competition predicted to be impacted by extreme heat, instead of communicating positively about climate action, FIFA has given the world’s biggest billboard to the world’s biggest oil company.

Aramco is committed to expanding fossil fuel production and the state-owned company is a key part of Saudi Arabia’s global efforts to block climate action.

We all know that burning ever more oil and gas worsens the climate impacts that are already harming football and its fans around the world. Dangerous heat, droughts, hurricanes, floods, failed harvests, rising food prices and polluted air are a threat to our communities. But they also have consequences for the game we love; from the kids told to shelter from fire and smoke to top athletes struggling through dangerous heat during summer tournaments.

Football’s elite competitions are built on the strength of a five billion strong global community. From factory teams to small community clubs, the sport has always grown out of ordinary people’s pride, passion and solidarity. Fans therefore have a stake in the direction the game takes and a right to speak up to defend the game’s values, which are a reflection of all of us.

FIFA claims it wants to ‘unite the world’. While a majority of people around the world are united in wanting more climate action, FIFA sells its platform to the polluters using every possible trick to delay the action we all need.

FIFA says it cares about integrity, but it is once again choosing money over the interests of football’s fans and players. It speaks about solidarity, but it is turning away from communities around the world already impacted by the climate crisis and the younger generations who will pay the price for its pollution. It has committed to halving its emissions by 2030, but that promise appears totally broken.

 

Therefore, we call on FIFA to:

– End its sponsorship agreement with Aramco

– Ban fossil fuel companies and other big polluters from sponsoring its competitions.

– Engage with supporters, clubs, and players to develop a climate-responsible vision for football’s future.

 

We call on other fans and supporters’ groups to join us in defending the game against those who threaten our communities by worsening the climate crisis.

Football must lead by example, through meaningful action. Together, we can protect our sport and the people who continue to play and support it, every single day.

 

Signatories

 

Fossil Free Football

Finnish National Team Supporters Association (Suomen Maajoukkueen Kannattajat ry, or SMJK)

Scottish Football Supporters Association

Ipswich Town Fans Supporting Foodbanks

Everton Women Official Supporters Club

Green Gooners: Arsenal Fans for the Environment

MCFC Fans Foodbank Support

Celts for the Planet

Canal Street Blues LGBTQ+

Rainbow Owls

Brentford LGBeeTs

Arsenal4Palestine

Clapton CFC Action

Clapton Queers

Trade Unions United

Fairness United

Dolt F.C.

Terraces Subculture Bilbao

FC United of Manchester London & Southern Branch

FC St. Pauli Supporters Züri

Show Israeli Genocide the Red Card

GayBohs

Altijd Sankt Pauli

NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing

Red Card Sheffield

London Solidarity Football

United L’aquila

Bergamo Antifa United

Kick Polluters Out

Supporter groups across Europe and beyond calling on FIFA to drop Aramco.

For more background on the deal and its implications for football and the climate crisis, see our FIFA–Aramco sponsorship factsheet.