Green Football helps protect the game we love.
Football holds communities together. But the places we play and watch the game are under threat from increasingly extreme weather, and so is everything the game gives us.
Together, we can defend those places and keep the game playable for generations to come.
Defending the
future of football
Green Football exists to protect football’s future by caring for the pitches, communities and places the game depends on.
Football doesn’t just live in stadiums. It lives in our streets and our parks, our pitches and playgrounds. These are the everyday spaces where people come together to kick around, connect, and belong.
For millions of us, football — whether it’s five-a-side, Sunday league, or the weekly pilgrimage to the ground — is a lifeline.
Football is increasingly threatened by extreme weather
Dirty air affects our health and how we play, while rising heat and extreme weather disrupts our experience of football at every level. The routines, the relationships, the sense of belonging… It all rests on the places where we find the game we love.
100,000
grassroots games are likely to be called off this year because of pitch conditions.
3/4
of the pitches used by the top three tiers of English women's football and the Scottish Women's Premier League are projected to be at serious risk from climate threats.
by 2050
one in four professional English clubs are likely to face flooding every year.
We can defend where football lives
When football stops, it’s more than 90 minutes lost. It’s missing mates, our weekly run-out, the chance to switch off. The routines, friendships, and sense of belonging — it all depends on the places where the game lives.
Now those places need us. Let’s protect football for everyone.
Every story helps show these places matter — and why they’re worth protecting. Show us where football lives for you and let us know why it matters. Please post your video or photo on Instagram, and tag @_greenfootball
You can also pledge to take action for nature to win prizes and help your club win the Green Football Cup.
Enter Here
Quotes
“Players want to get involved in good campaigns and this is one of them.”
"Football has the unbelievable power to unite everyone – clubs, players and fans from across the community – with a common goal to take action"
Green Football founding members:
Supported by partners:
CUI – Count Us In Limited is registered in England under company number 13199784, and operates as Count Us In under charity number 1195686.