FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins “Football Climate Impact Prize”
FIFA President Infantino’s steadfast commitment to expanding football’s impact on the world’s climate has been recognised with a special new award, Fossil Free Football’s “Football Climate Impact Prize”. Infantino’s crowning achievement is the sale of the world’s biggest platform, the FIFA World Cup, to the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi state oil company Aramco. Despite […]
How Football-Fan Activist Group Gunners for Peace Helped End Visit Rwanda’s Sponsorship Deal with Arsenal FC – An Interview With Pat Burns
Recently Arsenal FC announced that their 8 year shirt sponsorship agreement with Visit Rwanda will come to an end when the current Premier League season runs its course around June 2026. The statement made on their official website implied that the decision came from Visit Rwanda, who will instead be looking to invest in other […]
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 […]
Norwegian football club Bodø/Glimt Release New Kit Featuring Melting Ice Caps To Raise Awareness of Global Warming
News that we’re filing under “Things We Love To See” – Norwegian football club Bodø/Glimt have recently released a football shirt with PUMA which aims to raise awareness of global warming. The new kit, which is part of their third kit collection, has a design showcasing blue-white diamonds which represent our melting ice caps. Image […]
Footballers call upon FIFA to take serious climate action
A group of (former) pro players, led by David Wheeler, have come together to call upon FIFA and other FAs to take serious climate action.
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.
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, […]
Fans Against Polluting Sponsors – Online Meetings February 2025
Online meeting: Fans Against Polluting Sponsors! Fossil Free Football is holding an online session for fans who are concerned about their club’s polluting sponsor. We are looking for fans to start local campaigns groups against these sponsor deals. Do you want to get involved? Hit the button below to register your attendance for the […]
Letter to Arsène Wenger on revising the football calendar
PUBLICATION: UEFA’s €500m Qatar Airways deal pollutes like a coal-fired power plant
