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 teaching young girls 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...

What does it feel like to be in the middle of the action every Sunday morning?

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

Liam Hewitt is a photographer and South Londoner who now documents the length and breadth of Scottish football culture.

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.

Nas Ilhas Marshall, o futebol é mais do que apenas um jogo. É uma luta pela sobrevivência. A nação insular, que abriga apenas 42.000 pessoas, está lutando contra o aumento do nível do mar, ameaçando apagá-la do mapa. Agora, seu time de futebol está usando o esporte para enviar uma mensagem sobre as mudanças climáticas, começando com um kit que está desaparecendo diante de nossos olhos.