About – Pledgeball

Who we are

Pledgeball is an award-winning, sustainability charity that empowers the sporting community to take meaningful climate action and Protect Where We Play.

We work across several sports, including football, rugby union, and tennis, to create a more sustainable future for fans, athletes, and clubs.

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Rugby
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24

Committed staff & volunteers

1,525

cars off the road

62.59 m

kg of Carbon Emissions

What we do

24

Committed staff & volunteers

1,525

Cars off the road

62.59 m

kg of Carbon Emissions

Our flagship initiative, the Pledgeball League, enables fans and players to support their football club by making eco-friendly pledges both big and small.

Whether it’s buying an electric vehicle, organising a beach clean-up, or switching to a reusable water bottle, every action counts.

Each pledge is assigned a Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) value in kilograms, helping to determine a club’s position in the league table. The more fans that pledge, the higher their club climbs.

What we achieve

By transforming sustainability into a game that everyone can win, the Pledgeball League is a simple and effective way to inspire meaningful change.

Last season, fans from more than 180 clubs made over 144,000 pledges, representing a 38 percent increase on the 2022/23 campaign. Together, fans have pledged to save 62.5 million kg in carbon emissions — comparable to taking 13,603 cars off the road.

62.59 m

kg of Carbon Emissions

23,797

Pledges

1,525

Clubs whose fans made pledges

62.59m

kg of Carbon Emissions

We work closely with leading academic experts to ensure that everything we do is backed and is guided by robust data and research.

We also collaborate with a wide range of sports stakeholders to maximise our impact.

Since 2022, we have been partnered with the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) to raise awareness about the relationship between football and the climate crisis, while supporting fans who want to make the game greener. As part of this partnership, we launched the Sustainable Travel Charter, which focuses on reducing the environmental footprint of clubs’ travel, and we play an active role in the FSA Green Working Group.

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We liaise with dozens of football and rugby union clubs, too, including Bristol City, Dundee United, Millwall, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Cardiff Rugby, and Dragons RFC. In addition, we have official partnerships with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), International Biathlon Union (IBU), and Birmingham County FA.

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We team up with football governing bodies and league associations to drive climate action across the sport. From engaging entire leagues to helping shape and implement sustainability policies, we work to accelerate real change—on the pitch, behind the scenes, and everywhere in between.

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The Pledgeball Community

Major campaigns and initiatives

Alongside the Football Association (FA), EFL, Women’s Super League, and 80 clubs, Pledgeball is also a founding member of Green Football Weekend, an annual campaign that aims to use the power of football to tackle climate change. Meanwhile, during the 2023/24 season, we teamed up with UEFA and Mastercard to launch the Champions Innovate Pledge League — bringing the Pledgeball League to the pinnacle of European football and reaching an incredible 6.2 million fans in the process.

Pledgeball was named Grassroots Organisation of the Year at the prestigious BBC Green Sports Awards 2024 in recognition of our “commitment to sustainability and innovative approach to engaging sports fans”.

These efforts have not gone unnoticed, earning significant attention within the worlds of sports and sustainability. Our projects have attracted extensive press and media coverage, while we continue to deliver workshops to different stakeholders on subjects as diverse as fan engagement and the psychology of behaviour change.

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If you would like to find out more about Pledgeball, visit our Resources page, read our FAQs, or contact us.

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Protect where we play

Who we are

Pledgeball is an award-winning, sustainability charity that empowers the sporting community to take meaningful climate action and Protect Where We Play.

What we do

Our flagship initiative, the Pledgeball League, enables fans and players to support their football club by making eco-friendly pledges both big and small.

What we achieve

By transforming sustainability into a game that everyone can win, the Pledgeball League is a simple and effective way to inspire meaningful change.

We work closely with leading academic experts to ensure that everything we do is backed and is guided by robust data and research.

The Pledgeball Community

Major campaigns and initiatives

Pledgeball was named Grassroots Organisation of the Year at the prestigious BBC Green Sports Awards 2024 in recognition of our “commitment to sustainability and innovative approach to engaging sports fans”.

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