FIFA and Saudi state oil company Aramco: 5 reasons this sponsor deal is a bad idea!
FIFA and Aramco Factsheet: the World’s Biggest Polluter on the World’s Biggest Stage Aramco is the world’s largest oil producer, worth around $1.6 trillion. It is 98.5% owned by the Saudi Arabian state. In 2024, FIFA made Aramco its “major worldwide partner” in a sponsorship deal reportedly worth $100 million per year. The agreement […]
Champions League Pollution
After another European summer defined by dangerous heat and fire, our analysis of UEFA’s flagship competition finds it is making an outsized contribution to the fossil fuel pollution that is worsening this extreme weather and harming football at every level. Find the full publication below.
FIFA Discards Summer Tournament Tradition – Statement
In 2024 the world passed 1.5C of heating, but FIFA now acknowledging that it is no longer possible to hold a World Cup in summer makes plain for football fans that a new chapter in the climate crisis is now open. Extreme heat, which marked major US hosted tournaments in 2024 and 2025, is guaranteed to overshadow the World […]
Club World Cup Briefing
Our analysis sets out the massive pollution linked to FIFA’s newly expanded Club World Cup, even as the tournament is highly exposed to extreme heat worsened by climate change.
Media Highlights
Fossil Free Football – Media Highlights Selected media coverage involving the organisation.
LA Protest Against Fossil Fuel Sports Sponsorship
LA fans send clear message on fossil fuels in sport as they protest Dodgers deal a year out from Aramco sponsored World Cup As Los Angeles prepares to host the World Cup and Olympic Games, Fossil Free Football volunteer Zach Lubin joined LA’s first protest against fossil fuel sports sponsorship. As the Los Angeles Dodgers, […]
Letter to Arsène Wenger on revising the football calendar
PUBLICATION: UEFA’s €500m Qatar Airways deal pollutes like a coal-fired power plant
PUBLICATION: Premier League Returns Covered in Polluting Sponsors
Carbon Boot Trophy – the Premier League trophy no one wants to win
Campaign for Better Transport and Fossil Free Football have teamed up to create a new Premier League trophy. The Carbon Boot will be awarded for ‘outstanding contributions to football’s carbon footprint’, and comes after Premier League clubs were found to have flown to hundreds of domestic away games. A study in 2023 found that Premier […]