STORIES

As part of a sprawling season-long research project, Count Us In spoke to fans all over the world about the power of the game, why it continues to resonate, and to find out what exactly is at threat when extreme weather stops play...

Jack Clayton investigates the financial, social and emotional cost of flooding on UK football...

Damien John Kelly House is providing hope through football to those in recovery in inner-city Liverpool...

Inside a small women’s football club in Casablanca, the game is helping girls realise what they're capable of...

Arsenal have fans all over the world, but the Gunners never lost sight of where football lives locally…

Inspired by an offensive comment from a football manager, award-winning filmmaker and creative director Victor Toyofuku began a journey that took him deep into an indigenous community whose devotion to the beautiful game blew him away…

Filmmaker Alec Cutter spent years getting access to the underground amateur football leagues of São Paulo’s favelas. He says what he found there was an antidote to what the game was losing everywhere else…

Joel Golby recounts when the universe made him feel invincible during a kickabout in Bethnal Green...

Sumaira Inayat is the co-founder of the Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League, the first ever league for girls in the North of Pakistan...

Defending Hackney Marshes from extreme weather isn't just about football. It's a genuine act of cultural preservation...

Wales’ fourth most-capped player owes it all to Greenwood Park in St Albans…

Liam Hewitt's stunning work proves that football lives in even the most remote pockets of Bonnie Scotland...

Finding the frame allowed Laura Gates to reconnect with the beautiful game…

Introducing TERRA, a collection of stories from the places where football lives, and a reflection of how we believe change happens. We don’t start by asking fans to think about climate; we start with football itself — the people, communities, rituals and places they already care about — and build from there.

We spoke to researcher Dr Jack Layton whose work argues that amateur football is vital in bringing us together in divided times — a benefit increasingly threatened by our changing climate.

The game is reaching boiling point.

In the Marshall Islands, football is more than just a game. It is a fight for survival. The island nation, home to just 42,000 people, is battling rising sea levels threatening to wipe it off the map. Now, its football team is using the sport to send a message about climate change, starting with a kit that is vanishing before our eyes.