🚨 Football fans are taking on an oil giant.
In an open letter spearheaded by Fossil Free Football, a coalition of fans are speaking out against the deal between FIFA and the world's largest fossil fuel company Aramco. 🧵 1/6
Fantastic work as always from Fossil Free Football. The climate crisis needs to be to the centre of the debates around sport and governance, and work like this will make that happen.
Don’t know what the answer is. But it seems important to say it
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🚨 We are 100 days from the start of the World Cup. Today, we’re launching an international supporters campaign calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with Aramco.
As LA prepares to host FIFA World Cup games in weeks, Dodger Fans Against Fossil Fuels throws our support behind this campaign. Indeed, our expanded campaign had protestors at a FIFA stadium in Atlanta last week. All teams & sports must end fossil fuel sponsorships now. Stop the #sportswashing.
NUFCFAS supports @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social's campaign to kick Aramco + #NUFC owners out of football. 👇🏾
Aramco is the world’s largest polluter, emitting over 1,800 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2023.
#FIFADropAramco
#KickOutAramco
#RedCardAramco
#FansAgainstAramco
Fan groups across clubs and countries are stepping forward. If you’re part of a supporters group, sign the statement and join us. Football belongs to fans. Let’s shape its future together. #DropAramcoFIFA form.typeform.com/to/xNFEjF9s
Football is already feeling the impacts of climate change. The next World Cup promises to be the hottest ever. Aramco is the world’s largest oil company and one of the biggest polluters globally. Many supporters believe the game should be part of the solution, not promote the problem.
🚨 We are 100 days from the start of the World Cup. Today, we’re launching an international supporters campaign calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with Aramco.
World Cup participant attacks World Cup sponsor after being attacked by World Cup host.
#Iran #SaudiAramco #Trump
UEFA has dropped its net-zero target in its sustainability strategy update.
What’s behind the shift and what does it mean for football and climate action?
The latest free newsletter post examines what’s changed and what it means in practice.
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One of our volunteers in the US: "Can’t line up these CONCACAF Champions League sponsors any better/worse… Scotiabank, Saudi - Welcome to Arabia, Riyadh Air, Aramco, then PIF"
"End fossil fuel sponsorship of winter sports...Let the Milano-Cortina 2026 Games be the last time athletes are asked to advertise for companies whose profits depend on destroying winter itself."
My latest op-ed @vancouversun.bsky.social.
@cape-acme.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, we are in for lots more fossil adverts when the World Cup is here - one of FIFA’s key partners is 🇸🇦Aramco, the world‘s biggest oil firm (mostly owned by a petro-dictatorship). For this, FIFA recently won the Inaugural @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social "Football Climate Impact Prize"👇
Article screenshot. Featured photo shows installation of Olympic rings covered in oil with the words Sponsored by ENI beneath, and a Greenpeace activist alongside with banner saying, Kick Polluters Out Of The Games. Title of article: Will the International Olympic Committee stand with athletes or Big Oil?
The question now is simple: Will the Olympics listen to athletes, fans and scientists and end fossil fuel sponsorship?
Or will it continue to shelter planet-heating corporations behind the Olympic Rings?
👉 act.gp/3MAS7SU 👀
#WinterOlympics
Werder Bremen will not fulfil their proposed summer tour of the U.S., citing recent incidents in Minneapolis, Minnesota as “not fitting the values” of the club.
More from @colinmillar.bsky.social and @sebsb.bsky.social
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@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social @thegreenrunners.bsky.social
Seeing it as a infographic really highlights the amount of travel for clubs playing in Europe.
The 2026 Winter Olympics start tomorrow, at a time when pollution-fuelled global heating is putting the whole of winter sport in crisis. ❄️🔥
youtu.be/jr0PFhBOCAE
Today's #WinterOlympics coverage is focused on climate and sustainably.
Nikolai Schirmer on Wednesday delivered the "Ski Fossil Free" petition, with over 21,00 signatures to the IOC's head of sustainability.
with Jennifer McDermott via @apnews.com
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The United States is now a country where the President’s goons kill civilians on the streets.
There’s no sugarcoating it.
Which country dares send supporters and citizens to such a country?
#worldcup #fifa26 ⚽️
A Trump World Cup is unacceptable.
If you have any influence in the football world: today is your day to find a camera and put pressure on FIFA to move the World Cup.
#NoTrumpWorldCup
Politically or practically?
There are two other hosts already, Canada and Mexico, who could perfectly organise this World Cup together.
Agreed!
A Trump World Cup is unacceptable.
If you have any influence in the football world: today is your day to find a camera and put pressure on FIFA to move the World Cup.
#NoTrumpWorldCup
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Dodger Fans Against Fossil Fuels, working to get the Dodgers to end their Big Oil sponsorship, is going national! Protestors in 7 U.S. cities w/ teams sponsored by fossil fuels will protest with us on 2-17. Join us! tinyurl.com/yeujmp4k @thegreenrunners.bsky.social @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
Time to reimagine things! ‘The assumption that no other sponsor could be found is “a failure to imagine things otherwise”, he says.’ @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social @desmog.com #sportswashing #climatecrisis
Sportwashing is a problem. TotalEnergies fuels suffering and atrocities across Africa. That is precisely why the company does so much in this continent to hide its image behind footballs, billboards, and cheering crowds. backchannel1.substack.com/p/why-total-...
