Joint Statement: Award of 2034 men’s World Cup to Saudi Arabia risks lives & exposes @FIFA’s empty human rights commitments. Ronan Evain, Executive Director of Football Supporters Europe, said: "Today is a dark day for human rights and football as a whole." 1/3

No process, no voice, no choice. Silent delegates clap along as FIFA confirms the frequent flyer and fossil fuel-PR World Cups.

🚨Shirt Alert🚨 The Marshall Islands, the only recognised UN State with no national football team. This new shirt has been produced to bring attention to the threat climate change has to the island, with rising sea levels threatening to erase the nation completely. 'The shirt

⚽️ 𝗢𝘄𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱. FIFA is the leading body of the most popular sport across the globe. ⚽️ Sadly, this leadership does not appear to extend to the climate. 🌍 This year, FIFA announced its sponsorship deal with the world's largest fossil fuel firm, Saudi Aramco. 🤦

As the climate crisis worsens, FIFA made the world's biggest oil company the sponsor of the world's biggest event... A worthy winner of the Own Goal Award in this year's Bad Sport Awards 🏆

European Super League relaunched as the ‘Unify League’ - UEFA insiders dismiss it as “bullshit” thetimes.com/article/ad5c26…

For years, airline giants like Emirates, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways have dominated sports sponsorships❗ Now, 🇸🇦 is entering the game with its state-owned carriers: السعودية and the recently launched Riyadh Air✈ Read the full story👇 playthegame.org/news/riyadh-ai…

🔥Kerstin Elserth resigns in protest over the Swedish Football Association’s approval of the World Cup in Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 - “I think it's deplorable. I no longer want to have any connection to Swedish football when it's like this," she says. fotbollskanalen.se/sverige/elsert…

Exorbitant ticket prices, exhausted players, extreme heat, polluting sponsorship, lopsided competition... The Club World Cup underlines the need for football to change course🔀

African football fans get ads, pollution and deadly climate disasters, European shareholders get the profits 💸 Together, let’s kick Total out of Africa and out of our sport 🌍

Wishing Bukayo Saka a swift recovery. And wishing Fifa and Uefa would wake up to PFA and Fifpro warnings over player workload.  Saka’s played 144 games for Arsenal and England since August 2022, often the full 90 minutes and frequently at high intensity. Something was always

🚨 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 2024 There have been some huge milestones in the campaign for a high-carbon advertising ban this year. As we near 2025, we're looking back at some of this year's big moments. Here are a few highlights from the first half of 2024. 🧵

🚨 Sportswashing Alert! 🚨 The Spanish Super Cup is underway. 🇪🇸⚽️ But how did a tournament for Spain's top football clubs end up being hosted nearly 3000 miles away in Saudi Arabia? Make yourself comfortable - here's a tale of Saudi sportswashing. 📖🧵 #SpanishSuperCup

Next year, billions will be fed ads for the world's biggest oil company when LA hosts the World Cup. If this is mid-winter 2025 👇 what will our older selves be facing in hotter and hotter decades to come? This madness can't go on. #DropAramcoFIFA

Taking the train to London gets results! Man. Utd clearly wanting to turn around a poor first half of the Carbon Boot season 👀 There’s just no reason to fly from Manchester to London ⚡️ This must be the norm Manchester United 🚆

Isn't it nice to see football not being used as a promotional tool by companies that cause environmental and social harm? 🥹