Green Football Weekend

More than 80 top football clubs are joining forces against climate change in the world’s biggest football campaign to protect our world, Green Football Weekend.

Wolves 1877 Trust will be supporting this initiative, in collaboration with the Football Supporters’ Association.

For the next 20 days, clubs across the top divisions are battling it out for the coveted Green Football Cup. But unlike other tournaments, it’s fan action that will decide who takes the Cup home, with fans scoring green goals for their club by taking climate-friendly actions - from eating a veggie meal to turning the thermostat down one degree or taking a shorter shower. Fans can choose their activities and register their goals at greenfootballweekend.com.

 The competition will culminate in Green Football Weekend on 3-5 February, when clubs will join fans in implementing changes by making their fixtures ‘greener games’, and some teams will wear green armbands to show their support for protecting our world.

Football fans have incredible power to help protect our world - and save money in the process. If the UK’s 36 million fans adopted three climate-friendly habits across the course of the 20-day tournament - reducing their shower time to four minutes, having two meat-free days per week, and turning the thermostat down by 1 degree - fans could save more than 700 million kg CO2e, the equivalent of planting 11.78 million trees”, explained Green Football Weekend spokesperson Sarah Jacobs.

Mark Bullingham, FA Chief Executive, said: "The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and we are pleased to support the Green Football Weekend campaign. At The FA, we have made great strides to become more environmentally friendly, including Wembley Stadium being awarded the highest standard of sustainability by the ISO, and we are dedicated to making even further progress. Football has the power to inspire people and improve lives, and collectively we can make positive and meaningful change."

●     Today marks the countdown to Green Football Weekend with clubs encouraging millions of fans to score green goals for their team by taking climate-friendly actions.

●     By adopting 3 of the tournament’s simple habits for a year, fans could save up to £728.

●     Fans can go to greenfootballweekend.com to choose climate-friendly activities and score green goals.

●     Steve McManaman, Robbie Savage, Jamie Carragher, Karen Carney, and Ben Mee are among those involved in the campaign.

●     Sky Sports and BT Sport are supporting Green Football Weekend with a host of editorial programming

Wolves 1877 Trust supports the concept and aims of this event and encourages Wolves supporters to get involved in the run-up to this event.

 Further details: https://www.greenfootballweekend.com/