Restoring global forests

one football pitch at a time

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98 pitches restored

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Our mission

Global forests are disappearing. Every minute an area of forest equivalent to 30 football pitches is lost. That is nearly 2,500 pitches of destruction in the duration of a single football match.

Football for Forests (F4F) is helping turn this trend around: with the help of the global football community and the enthusiasm of football fans, we restore tropical forests, pitch by pitch.

How F4F works

F4F hosts the global Forest Restoration League in which fans compete for their clubs to restore the most forest. The Restoration League allows football fans, the football clubs they support, and corporate sponsors to compete in restoring areas of forest. Select the football team you love, commit a cash amount for each goal your team scores, and as the goals fly in, see how much you and your team are contributing to forest restoration. Fans compete throughout the duration of a football season, helping their club top the Forest Restoration Team.

Donations go to forest restoration projects in the Amazon region. These projects plant trees, engage local communities in restoration activities, and work with youth groups to turn them into guardians of forests.

Join the squad

Download the beta app and select the football team you love

Commit a cash amount for each goal your team scores

Answer football trivia to boost your impact

Follow how you and your team perform in the league table

Get it on Google Play

Download on the App Store

Each time your team scores, forests win!

February 2023

Guardians of the forest

Football for Forests aims to train as many young people as possible to be ‘Zagueros del bosque’ (guardians of the forest) for their home forests and to lead football schools in their own communities. In 2022, 20 guardians of the forest were trained already.

January 2023

#Generation Restoration

“Football for Forests offers an innovative opportunity to finance forest restoration activities in Colombia – football pitch by football pitch, so to speak,” says Juan Pablo Castro, director of GANSO. This non - profit organisation offers technical and financial support to land owners wishing to transition to sustainable land use practices in Colombia. Many of these include cattle ranchers residing at the forest frontier.

December 2022

Sports for Social Impact

We had the pleasure of talking with Sports for Social Impact in today's podcast. In our discussion, we explored the possibility of financing nature-based solutions and reforestation through sport. Sports for Social Impact seeks to explore and educate on the power that sport has to create a positive impact on society.

Listen here

December 2022

Every goal counts

"Football has rarely made positive headlines in recent weeks. The World Cup in Qatar was overshadowed by discussions about human rights violations. But football moves people." [In German] Frank Mertens talked to Charlotte Streck, one of the co-founders of Climate Focus, about Football For Forests for @electrifiedmagazin.

November 2022

UN Climate Change Conference

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference – more commonly referred to as COP27 – was held from 6 November until 18 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Our team was represented there by a number of colleagues, where we connected with likeminded initiatives, government programmes, and private sector actors on F4F’s missions and activities. It was fantastic to represent F4F at this important event.

COP27

October 2022

Restoration progress

With generous support from the German government (GIZ), we have been busy preparing the first two restoration sites in Colombia. The first site concerns a 35-football pitch-sized farm in the Amazon region, while the second project covers a 20 pitch-sized farm in the Orinoquia region. As we release the first fully functional app this November, we hope to be able to start restoring these sites as the goals of your favourite teams start flying in!

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August 2022

New partnership

We are extremely happy to let you know that we have received support from the Algorand Foundation to continue the scaling of F4F’s activities. Algorand is a low - carbon blockchain enterprise that empowers solutions based on the Algorand blockchain, and supports a wide range of start - up ventures through its Foundation. With this support, F4F is able to complete the development of the second version of pur app, and scale forest restoration efforts on the ground in Colombia.

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How is your team performing?

WHERE WE ARE RESTORING FORESTS

Project sites in Colombia

Yurumí Reserve and Amazonía Emprende

Amazonía Emprende

7/30 restored pitches (22%)

Yurumí reserve

28/28 restored pitches (100%)

Partner with us

We're looking for commercial partners to accelerate our fight to restore the world's forests.

You can create your own areas of restored forest by committing to a restoration target, engaging your employees in the campaign, or becoming a "fans' favourite" matching partner.

If your organisation would like to commit to a forest restoration target and leverage the passion of football to create impact, then join us in this exciting journey.