Restoring tropical forests - Football for Forests

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restoring tropical forests,
one football pitch at a time

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F4F hosts the global Forest Restoration League in which fans, clubs and organisations compete for their clubs to restore the most forest.

Select the football team you love, pledge a cash amount for each goal your team scores, and as the goals fly in, check your league position according how much you and your team are contributing to forest restoration.

You can compete throughout the duration of a football season, helping your team top the Forest Restoration Team, or you can get involved for big games, helping give your team some good ‘football karma’.

Click here to find out more and see the latest league tables.
Global forests are disappearing. Every minute an area of forest equivalent to 17 football pitches is lost. That is around 1,500 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.

All 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.

Click here to find out more about our reforestation work and impact

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Like the standard edition, the app hosts a ‘Forest League’ which shows where it a team ranks against the other teams in the tournament. Supporters can help their team position by how much they donate, as well by answering trivia questions correctly and by recruiting other supporters.

Or, if you believe in footballing karma, you might think of the app as a ‘good luck ritual’ and just enjoy helping your team to help the planet – ‘Goals for Trees’, as we say! You can donate to a team throughout the tournament or just for specific games – you can even donate to support other teams ‘tactically’!

Check the basics in these videos

All about our forest restoration work

All about our forest restoration work
Football for Forests Euro 2024 Special Edition - Full Introduction

Football for Forests Euro 2024 Special Edition - Full Introduction

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Football for Forests: the 2024 Restoration of 'Footy Badgers'

Click here or on the image to see our ‘goals plant trees / footy badgers 2024 video’

We joined up with legendary creator Mr Weebl to restore his massive hit from 2004, ‘Footy Badgers’. Now the original badger has teamed up with up with native Amazonian species to hammer home the message of deforestation and the need to plant more trees to recover what we’re losing.

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

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Implementation and communication partners

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Ambassadors

Forest and climate protection is a global task that requires the commitment of all of us! Football overcomes language barriers and borders easily - and unites people unity. The combination of climate protection and football fever through F4F provides the opportunity for all of us to get involved and engage! With F4F, companies can bring their climate and social responsibility to life and become part of a global movement.

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

Member of the Management Board of GIZ GmbH

Both football and climate diplomacy depend on team spirit and joint commitment. As the Federal Foreign Office, we support the Football for Forests initiative and thereby want to combine enthusiasm for football with commitment to more climate protection and more reforestation of tropical forests.

Jennifer Morgan

Special Envoy for International Climate Action

I'm proud to be a Football for Forests Ambassador, supporting efforts to restore tropical forests, pitch by pitch!

Jill Gallard

UK Ambassador to Germany

Reversing the Amazon's Point of No Return is achieved when we move from words to deeds, from intention to action.

Julio Andres

Founder and Director, Amazonía Emprende-Escuela Bosque

Wir sind verantwortlich für das was wir tun und für das was wir unterlassen. Was wir heute tun, entscheidet darüber, wie die Welt morgen aussieht. Bei Football for Forest gibt es für jedes Tor deiner Mannschaft einen Baum. Werde Teil des Teams und beeinflusse den Ausbau der Wälder.

Tabea Kemme

German Footballer

It's an honour for me to be a Football for Forests ambassador and support this valuable initiative with the enthusiasm of my country, Colombia! Download the app where every goal scored by your favourite team, and your donations, result in concrete climate action to preserve our Amazon!

Yadir Salazar–Mejía

Colombian Ambassador to Germany